This page is just for fun. It's a random collection of rare crossword answers; so rare that each appears only in a single Modern Era puzzle. Bogus entries (thematic words that make sense only in that crossword) are excluded.
There are 49,096 unique Modern Era answer words in the database.
Click any word to see it in the context of its puzzle. Words in this color did appear in pre-Shortz crosswords.
| Word | Date | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIKELANES | Fri Feb 3, 2017 | Features of some city streets | Paolo Pasco |
| BLUDGEON | Tue Feb 20, 2018 | Beat badly | Joel Fagliano |
| BOSSLEVEL | Sun Mar 31, 2024 | Final phase of a video game, perhaps | Spencer Leach |
| CATCHMEIFYOUCAN | Sun Sep 24, 2017 | "Try not to miss Bangor and Lewiston"? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CLOWNNOSES | Sat Nov 2, 1996 | They sometimes get honked | J. DiPietro |
| CRENNAS | Thu May 15, 1997 | "Rambo" actor Richard and kin | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| DEADBODY | Thu Oct 10, 2013 | Nonspeaking role on "CSI" | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| DISSING | Sun Feb 8, 2015 | Knocking | Jeremy Newton |
| DRAWSTRAWS | Fri Dec 15, 1995 | Decide by chance | Harvey Estes |
| ELSEIF | Sat Jun 4, 2016 | Conditional construct in computer programming | Byron Walden and Brad Wilber |
| ENDEDINDISASTER | Sat Dec 3, 2016 | Crashed and burned | Jason Flinn |
| FEEDTHEKITTY | Sun Jan 8, 2006 | The veterinarian tried to | Michael Ashley |
| FERMEZLABOUCHE | Wed Jul 16, 1997 | "Pipe down, Pierre!" | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| FORALOSS | Sat Feb 11, 1995 | One way to be thrown | Randolph Ross |
| FREDDYFENDER | Tue Feb 12, 2013 | Singer of the 1975 #1 hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" | Dan Schoenholz |
| GOTAMINUTE | Sat Oct 8, 2005 | "May I interrupt you?" | Byron Walden |
| GRILLED | Sat Nov 5, 2011 | With 39-Across, street fair fare | Kurt Mueller |
| HAMSANDWICH | Thu Oct 20, 1994 | Lunch item | Bryant White |
| IMALLIN | Mon Jul 24, 2023 | Poker player's bold declaration | John Ewbank |
| IRREGARDLESS | Thu Aug 6, 2009 | *No matter | Dan Naddor |
| ISOMETRIC | Sun Jun 16, 2019 | Static, as an exercise | Joel Fagliano |
| LADIESNIGHT | Sun Mar 31, 2013 | Weekly bar promotion, maybe | Caleb Madison |
| LIKEASORETHUMB | Sun Apr 28, 2019 | LAST words? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| LUMPIER | Sun Mar 2, 1997 | Less stirred | Harvey Estes |
| PANDOWDY | Sat Oct 25, 2003 | Fruity dessert | Rich Norris |
| PRINCETONU | Fri Jun 27, 1997 | Site of the Woodrow Wilson Sch. of Public and Intl. Affairs | Dean Niles |
| RAVISHED | Tue Mar 4, 2014 | Enraptured | Bruce Haight and Peter A. Collins |
| REDEPOSIT | Sat Jul 21, 2018 | Try again, with a bounced check | Jason Flinn |
| SAPPIER | Sun Dec 5, 2010 | More sentimental | Ben Pall |
| SLEEKEST | Sat Nov 13, 2004 | Superlatively streamlined | Frank Longo |
| SLICEABLE | Fri Jul 22, 2011 | Like deli meats | Todd McClary |
| STOCKERS | Fri May 4, 2001 | Grocery store workers | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TANT | Sat Sep 18, 2010 | "___ pis!" ("Too bad!," in France) | Natan Last, Brown University '12 |
| TARTARIC | Sat Aug 30, 2003 | ___ acid (baking powder ingredient) | Patrick Berry |
| TENLEY | Sat Dec 15, 2001 | 1956 U.S. figure skating gold medalist ___ Albright | Frank A. Longo |
| THRASHES | Thu Jul 3, 2014 | Licks | Luke Vaughn |
| UNDERARREST | Sat Jan 21, 2012 | Oppressed by the heat? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| UPROARIOUS | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | Really funny | Lisa Loeb and Doug Peterson |
| VESTEDINTEREST | Thu Jul 1, 2004 | Stake | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| WENTKABOOM | Tue Jan 9, 2024 | Exploded | Adam Wagner |