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 50,684 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AERIALVIEW | Sat May 16, 2020 | Look down on something? | Tracy Gray and Jeff Chen |
| AMATEURASTRONOMER | Sun Dec 19, 2010 | Many an avid observer of a 125-Across | Kevin G. Der |
| BETTING | Sat Aug 6, 2022 | Bookmaker's concern | Byron Walden |
| BOXTURTLE | Sat Sep 12, 2009 | Pet that hisses when frightened | Barry C. Silk |
| COLLECTED | Sun Sep 7, 1997 | Unruffled | Randolph Ross |
| COOKES | Fri Feb 12, 2010 | "Alistair ___ America" (1973 book) | Kevin G. Der |
| COVERED | Mon Oct 26, 2009 | Having insurance | Mike Nothnagel |
| DEVILRAY | Thu Dec 25, 2014 | Aquarium giant | Xan Vongsathorn |
| DODDERING | Fri May 17, 1996 | Unsteady | J. DiPietro |
| ELBOWOUT | Thu Oct 24, 2019 | Displace by force | Matt Ginsberg |
| ELMBARK | Sat Apr 14, 2012 | Medicinal tea source | Mark Diehl |
| GAMECHANGER | Fri Jun 17, 2011 | Cause of a paradigm shift | Paula Gamache |
| HAYDEN | Tue Jun 18, 2019 | New York's ___ Planetarium | Jeff Stillman |
| ILLDOIT | Sun May 5, 2019 | Volunteer's offer | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson |
| IMAGEMAKER | Thu Jun 11, 2015 | *Publicist, e.g. | Lewis E. Rothlein |
| IMPRINTED | Fri Sep 17, 1999 | Like many a cover title | Patrick D. Berry |
| IOWAY | Fri Jan 16, 2004 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's "All I Owe ___" | Manny Nosowsky |
| KLONDIKEBARS | Tue Feb 14, 2023 | Chocolate-coated ice cream treats | Ella Dershowitz |
| KUWAITI | Sat Oct 6, 2007 | Dinar spender | Brendan Emmett Quigley and David Quarfoot |
| MESCALS | Fri Jul 12, 2019 | Drinks made from agave | Evan Kalish |
| OYSTERCRAB | Wed Apr 6, 2016 | Chesapeake Bay delicacy | Timothy Polin |
| PASSIVEVOICE | Sun Jan 15, 2017 | "Village" newspaper that's namby-pamby? | Joel Fagliano |
| PIEDMONT | Thu Nov 10, 1994 | Former airline | Alfio Micci |
| POLECATS | Sat Oct 27, 2018 | Skunks | Byron Walden |
| POLLINATION | Wed Sep 17, 2014 | Job done by the insects seen above the circled words in 17-, 26- and 50-Across | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo |
| PONCAS | Sun May 31, 2009 | Plains Indians | Kelsey Blakley |
| RALPHWALDOEMERSON | Sun Jun 8, 2003 | Poet born in 1803 | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| RINGTAILS | Sat Jul 20, 1996 | Down Under opossums | R. Norris |
| SCUZZY | Thu Oct 19, 1995 | Wretched | Lois Sidway |
| SHINEALIGHT | Wed Jan 9, 2008 | Expose, with "on" | John Farmer |
| SLUGITOUT | Fri Apr 4, 2014 | Go a couple of rounds | Martin Ashwood-Smith and Joe Krozel |
| SOBERNESS | Fri Jul 25, 2008 | Dry state | John Farmer |
| SPACEFORCE | Sat Jun 25, 2022 | Branch of the U.S. military launched in 2019 | Adam Aaronson |
| SPIDERPLANT | Sun Nov 19, 2000 | Next, she ___ in the car and wanted to get it home | Cathy Millhauser |
| SURFERGIRL | Fri Nov 12, 2010 | One "standing by the ocean's roar," in a 1963 song | Barry C. Silk |
| TELEMARKETING | Thu Dec 30, 1993 | Dialing for dollars? | A.J. Santora |
| TIRELESSLY | Sat Oct 28, 2023 | Without getting beat | Ryan McCarty |
| TRAFFICFLOW | Mon Jun 30, 2014 | It's typically slow during rush hour | Ed Sessa |
| WAGTHEDOG | Fri Sep 3, 2021 | Create a diversion from a damaging issue, in politics | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Paolo Pasco |
| YESVIRGINIA | Mon Dec 19, 2005 | Part of a famous 1897 editorial | Richard Hughes |