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 50,049 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALAUGH | Thu Feb 10, 2005 | What jokes are good for | Frank Longo |
| ALFREDU | Sun Dec 21, 2003 | Sch. in upstate N.Y. | Frances Hansen |
| BADRATING | Sun Apr 3, 2022 | One star, typically | Byron Walden |
| BRONTOSAUR | Thu Feb 10, 2005 | Jurassic giant | Frank Longo |
| BUDAPESTHUNGARY | Sun May 5, 2013 | Birthplace of Harry Houdini | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CAPRICORN | Fri Aug 19, 2011 | One born on Christmas Day | Patrick Berry |
| CLAYTON | Fri Feb 20, 2015 | Kershaw with three Cy Young Awards | David Woolf |
| DEVOIR | Fri Dec 20, 1996 | Act of civility | M. Ashwood-Smith |
| DOGROSE | Thu Aug 25, 2022 | Flower with a canine-sounding name | Olivia Mitra Framke and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| EZPASSLANE | Fri Apr 6, 2018 | Quick way through a toll plaza | David Steinberg |
| FRAMABLE | Sun Jul 21, 1996 | Like some canvases | D. Niles |
| FROZENASSET | Sun Dec 1, 2024 | *Holding that's hard to convert to cash | John Lieb |
| GREEDISGOOD | Sat May 8, 2021 | "Wall Street" catchphrase | David Steinberg |
| HITALINEDRIVE | Fri Jan 13, 1995 | Smack hard | Judith Perry |
| IMPULSION | Wed Oct 27, 2021 | Strong urge | Johanna Fenimore |
| INERTIAS | Sat Jun 12, 1999 | They keep you going | Matt Gaffney |
| IRONWARE | Thu May 5, 2016 | Some pots and pans | David Poole |
| LOVEWILLKEEPUSTOGETHER | Sun Dec 5, 1999 | Vision of the future in human relations? | Joe DiPietro |
| MAGICLAMPS | Thu Mar 9, 2017 | Things from which genii are summoned | Jeremy Newton |
| MARRIEDTOTHEMOB | Fri Nov 3, 1995 | 1988 Jonathan Demme film | David J. Kahn |
| MEDIABLOG | Fri Sep 3, 2021 | Site for a movie poster? | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Paolo Pasco |
| MOMENTOUS | Sat Aug 3, 1996 | Key | A. D. Cover |
| MYBACK | Sun Jan 1, 1995 | "Get off ___!" | Henry Hook |
| NITON | Sun Mar 27, 1994 | Former name of radon | Jeanette K. Brill |
| NOTWHILE | Tue Mar 22, 2005 | With 24-Across, song from 18-Across | David J. Kahn |
| OLDANTIQUES | Sun Nov 13, 1994 | Collectibles? | Frank A. Longo |
| OPENA | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | ___ can of worms | Byron Walden |
| REDEVELOPED | Thu Jun 5, 2008 | Like land in urban renewal | James Sajdak |
| REDSHIFTED | Wed Mar 30, 2011 | Like light from stars moving away from us ... or like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? | Erik Wennstrom |
| SAGCARDS | Sat Jan 8, 2022 | Union IDs, for a performer | Freddie Cheng |
| SEALSWITHAKISS | Wed Mar 21, 2018 | Circus animals enjoying some chocolate? | Laura Braunstein |
| SLYAS | Sat Jul 4, 2009 | ___ a fox | Peter A. Collins and Joe Krozel |
| SOCORRO | Thu Jan 9, 2020 | Texas city on the Mexican border | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| STANDNEXTTO | Sat Dec 10, 2016 | Rub elbows with, say | Byron Walden |
| THEABSURD | Sat Apr 21, 2007 | See 29-Across | Byron Walden |
| THEELEPHANTMAN | Sun Jul 2, 2023 | 1980 film that led to the creation of the Academy Award for Best Makeup | Rebecca Goldstein and Rafael Musa |
| THEREDDFOXXSHOW | Sat Nov 22, 1997 | Short-lived 1986 TV sitcom | Matt Gaffney |
| TOMGIRL | Sun Jun 19, 2016 | Gender nonconformist | David Woolf |
| WHATSTHEPOINT | Sat Sep 16, 2023 | Nihilistic query | Jonathan Kaufman |