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 50,587 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJUG | Sun Feb 13, 2005 | "___ of Wine, a Loaf of Bread " | Daniel C. Bryant |
| ANOLE | Fri May 24, 2013 | Tropical lizard | Joe Krozel |
| ASAPROCKY | Sat Jul 29, 2017 | Rapper with a role in the 2015 film "Dope" | Erik Agard |
| CANCELLEDCHECK | Sun Jan 21, 1996 | OUT TIME | R. Wolfe |
| CARGOBAY | Mon Oct 3, 2022 | Storage spot in a ship | Sarah Sinclair |
| COPYIST | Thu Sep 21, 2000 | Scribe | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DATAFILES | Fri Apr 13, 2001 | Hackers' targets | Joe DiPietro |
| DEGREEMILL | Sat Oct 12, 2019 | Unaccredited university, say | Andrew J. Ries |
| DISCONTENT | Sun Jul 29, 2018 | Result of accidentally throwing a Frisbee into a campground? | Will Nediger |
| EPOXYRESIN | Fri Nov 2, 2012 | It forms a strong bond | Derek Bowman |
| EQUATORIALPLANE | Fri Nov 9, 2012 | Where chromosomes gather between poles during mitosis | Barry C. Silk |
| GIFTCERTIFICATE | Fri Jan 9, 2004 | Present for a picky person? | Bob Peoples |
| GOOUTWITH | Sat Mar 23, 2013 | See | David Steinberg |
| HAMBURGERBUN | Mon Jan 2, 2023 | Topper for a Whopper | Seth Bisen-Hersh |
| INTRACTABLY | Fri May 24, 2024 | With mulish resolve | Carolyn Davies Lynch |
| KUSCH | Sat Sep 11, 1999 | 1955 Physics Nobelist | Rich Norris |
| LEADORES | Sun Apr 7, 2013 | Galena and cerussite | Matt Ginsberg |
| MARCHED | Wed Nov 8, 2023 | Went in formation, in a way | Daniel Hrynick |
| MINDSETS | Thu Oct 4, 2007 | Attitudes | Sheldon Benardo |
| NEILGAIMAN | Sat Apr 27, 2019 | English author of "Stardust," "American Gods" and "The Graveyard Book" | Joe Deeney |
| OTTOKLEMPERER | Wed Aug 1, 2012 | Noted conductor whose son played TV's Colonel Klink | Doug Peterson |
| OVERLOOKS | Thu Mar 17, 2022 | Totally misses ...or totally surveys | Daniel Bodily and Jeff Chen |
| OVERWATERED | Sun Jul 31, 2005 | Afflicted with root rot, perhaps | Mark Feldman |
| PASSESBY | Fri Mar 5, 1999 | Disregards | Joe DiPietro |
| PETERJACKSON | Sun Feb 24, 2008 | Director (2003), actor (1962) | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| PHYSICSFORMULAS | Thu Aug 1, 2013 | What the three sets of shaded squares in this puzzle represent | Timothy Polin |
| PIKEMEN | Sat Jul 2, 1994 | Soldiers of yore | Bryant White |
| POLOBALL | Thu May 18, 2017 | It's hit with a mallet | Jacob Stulberg |
| POPPET | Fri Sep 9, 2016 | Valve with a disc at the end of a vertically set stem | Kristian House |
| SAMDONALDSON | Thu Feb 21, 2008 | Longtime ABC newsman | Peter A. Collins |
| SIXSIDED | Thu Sep 26, 2013 | Like a die | Tom Pepper and Victor Barocas |
| SLOWDOWNUPAHEAD | Thu Feb 17, 2005 | What "Pay Toll 1 Mile" implies | Patrick Merrell |
| SPECIALCOURTMARTIAL | Sun May 24, 2015 | Military trial for a misdemeanor [India; 8] | Kevin G. Der |
| STORYTIME | Sun Feb 26, 2023 | When to read aloud to kids | Will Nediger |
| STUERWIN | Thu Sep 8, 2011 | He played Joe Palooka in the 1934 film "Palooka" | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| THREEHUNDRED | Wed Oct 9, 2002 | Perfect score in a certain game | Peter Gordon |
| THUMBINDEX | Thu Oct 23, 2025 | Set of notches in a dictionary | Aimee Lucido |
| TOAHALT | Sun Oct 23, 2011 | How some cars screech | Joe DiPietro |
| UNITEDARTISTS | Tue May 13, 2008 | Classic film company ... or a description of 17-, 32-, 46- and 65-Across? | Caleb Madison |
| WOOLLYMAMMOTHS | Thu Aug 3, 2017 | Drawings seen in France's Rouffignac Cave | Timothy Polin |