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 50,425 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFACEINTHECROWD | Fri Nov 3, 1995 | 1957 Elia Kazan film | David J. Kahn |
| BADBEAT | Fri Sep 27, 2024 | Tough loss for a poker player | Jake Bunch |
| BIGGULP | Sun Dec 17, 2017 | 32-ounce purchase at 7-Eleven | Andrew J. Ries |
| BMINORMASS | Mon Mar 4, 2019 | Bach masterpiece, informally | Ellis Hay |
| BOXINGCHAMPION | Wed Mar 27, 2002 | Winner of a belt | Sarah Keller |
| BUCKSKIN | Tue Jan 3, 2006 | Family for Pearl? | Lynn Lempel |
| CHEEPERS | Sat Feb 14, 1998 | Chicks | Mark Diehl |
| CHICKASAW | Fri Jul 12, 2019 | Oklahoma tribe originally from the Southeast | Evan Kalish |
| COMPACTDISK | Mon Jun 11, 2001 | Today's record | Gregory E. Paul |
| CORIOLIS | Fri Sep 6, 2019 | Kind of force generated by the earth's rotation | Mark Diehl |
| DARIAS | Sun Jul 26, 2009 | Onetime MTV animated title character and others | Kevin G. Der |
| DEMERITS | Sun May 15, 1994 | Marks off | Charles M. Deber |
| DISMANTLED | Sat Mar 31, 2012 | Put through a chop shop, say | Scott Atkinson |
| DRAMATICIRONY | Fri Nov 1, 2002 | "Oedipus Rex" uses it | Joe DiPietro |
| EARLOCK | Fri Feb 24, 2012 | One hanging at a temple | Patrick Berry |
| ENJAMBMENT | Sun Sep 1, 2019 | Flow of one line of a verse to the next without pause | Finn Vigeland |
| ESPADRILLE | Mon May 7, 2018 | Shoe that ties around the ankle | Julie Bérubé |
| FACTORYOUTLETS | Thu Dec 30, 1993 | Alternatives to malls | A.J. Santora |
| FLATWHITE | Fri Aug 14, 2020 | Coffee order similar to a latte | Nam Jin Yoon |
| HOPEDFOR | Tue Aug 26, 2014 | Desired | Victor Fleming |
| IMHUNTINGWABBIT | Wed Nov 24, 1999 | See 17-Across | Greg Staples |
| IPLEDGE | Mon Mar 30, 2009 | Start of a daily school recital | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| KNUCKLEDRAGGER | Thu Dec 18, 2014 | *Outlay | Timothy Polin |
| LOWERTHEBAR | Mon Dec 2, 2019 | Reduce one's standards, as illustrated, respectively, in 3-, 5-, 7-, 40- and 28-Down | Lynn Lempel |
| ORCHESTRAMEMBER | Tue Mar 31, 1998 | TRIANGLE | Alan Arbesfeld |
| PALLETS | Sun Apr 10, 2016 | Makeshift beds | Randolph Ross |
| PROTESTERS | Fri Mar 18, 2022 | March participants, maybe | Claire Rimkus and Brooke Husic |
| REFERENCES | Fri Mar 31, 1995 | Résumé list | Chuck Deodene |
| ROCKMUSICIANS | Mon Sep 26, 2005 | Any of the Stones or the Who, e.g. | Ethan Cooper |
| ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE | Thu Nov 13, 2025 | Props for one's performance | Kyle Perkins |
| SANITYCHECK | Mon Sep 30, 2024 | Quick confirmation of feasibility | Alexander Liebeskind |
| SHRINKINGICECAP | Tue Apr 9, 2013 | Global warming concern | Steve Blais |
| SHUTYOURPIEHOLE | Fri Oct 15, 2021 | "Put a sock in it!" | Ashton Anderson |
| SNIPSOUT | Sat Sep 6, 1997 | Removes, as for a scrapbook | Rich Norris |
| SYLVESTERSTALLONE | Sun Jan 11, 2015 | The bartender poured beers for all the action movie stars, including ___ | Peter A. Collins |
| TALEOF | Sun May 22, 1994 | _____ woe | Randolph Ross |
| THREEPART | Sun Feb 15, 2004 | Like the names at 33-, 51-, 61-, 73-, 93-, 101- and 120-Across | Derrick Niederman |
| TWEETYBIRD | Tue Oct 8, 2002 | "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!" speaker | Sherry O. Blackard |
| WESTPOINTNY | Tue Jun 19, 2007 | Home of the U.S. Military Academy | John Underwood |
| WHOSESIDEAREYOUON | Sun Jan 20, 2019 | Football line judge | Richard Crowe |