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 50,672 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCESSLOG | Sun Jan 25, 2026 | Site-seeing list? | Mark MacLachlan |
| ASRICHASCROESUS | Fri Jan 30, 1998 | Loaded, so to speak | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| BEEINMYBONNET | Mon Nov 7, 2022 | "I can't stop thinking about it! There's a ..." | Jill Singer |
| BEESEASON | Sat Oct 7, 2017 | 2005 film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche | Byron Walden |
| BLEUCHEESE | Fri Jan 31, 1997 | Alternative to Italian | M. Gaffney |
| BOMBSHELLANNOUNCEMENT | Sun Aug 1, 2004 | The candidate called reporters in for a ___ | Randolph Ross |
| BOOTLEGGERS | Sat Mar 27, 2004 | Jazz Age figures | Sherry O. Blackard |
| COAXIAL | Fri Sep 6, 1996 | Kind of cable | R. Norris |
| COMMUNICATE | Mon Nov 13, 2017 | See 20-Across | Peter A. Collins |
| ENDEDINDISASTER | Sat Dec 3, 2016 | Crashed and burned | Jason Flinn |
| FIGHTNIGHT | Mon Sep 21, 2020 | Time to watch boxing on TV | Daniel Larsen and The Wave Learning Festival Crossword Class |
| FRATMEMBERS | Sun Nov 18, 2001 | Betas or Zetas, e.g. | Jim Page |
| FRUITLESS | Wed Jan 30, 2019 | Unproductive ... or, literally, a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues | Emily Carroll |
| GENTLEASALAMB | Wed Jun 1, 2005 | Totally harmless | Nick Grivas |
| GHETTOED | Fri Feb 10, 1995 | Isolated, in a way | Raymond Hamel |
| GINSENGROOT | Sat Apr 25, 1998 | Chinese medicine | Jim Page |
| GOODTROUBLE | Wed Feb 3, 2021 | Oxymoronic coinage of 35-Across | Yacob Yonas |
| GOOGLEIMAGES | Mon Aug 21, 2017 | Head off to stare at some pictures? (3 wds.) | Tom McCoy |
| HARALDS | Sat Nov 13, 2010 | Five Norwegian kings | Mark Diehl |
| ITAW | Wed Jan 9, 2008 | "___ a Putty Tat" (Friz Freleng short) | John Farmer |
| JUMPTHEGUN | Fri Oct 2, 2009 | Be too hasty | Brad Wilber |
| KEYEDON | Sun Feb 13, 2000 | Singled out as important | Bill Zais |
| MILLIESMALL | Sun Aug 10, 2014 | *Singer with the 1964 #2 hit "My Boy Lollipop" [the Bushes 41] | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| NEOSPORIN | Sat Jun 16, 2018 | Antibiotic ointment | Sam Trabucco |
| NOTSOGOOD | Sun Jul 30, 2017 | Medium-to-poor | Isaac Mizrahi and David J. Kahn |
| OUTSHINING | Fri Aug 20, 2010 | Topping | Brad Wilber |
| PENCILMOUSTACHE | Sun Apr 17, 2022 | Apt facial hair for a teacher? | Emet Ozar |
| PETERPARKER | Mon Dec 12, 2011 | *Spider-Man's alter ego | Gary Cee |
| SCARYSPICE | Fri Nov 2, 2012 | 1990s girl group member with a tongue piercing | Derek Bowman |
| SCRAPPLE | Sun May 28, 2000 | Pennsylvania Dutch dish | Richard Silvestri |
| SEENITALL | Fri Oct 17, 2014 | Been exposed to an awful lot | Michael Ashley |
| SHUTTERFLY | Mon Jun 22, 2015 | Internet photo company named after an insect | Joel Fagliano |
| STOODUPTO | Thu Feb 11, 2010 | Challenged | Peter A. Collins |
| STRAWY | Thu May 5, 2022 | Like some horse bedding | Adam Wagner |
| STUNGUNS | Mon Sep 29, 2008 | Police weapons that immobilize suspects | Sharon Delorme |
| TOUGHASNAILS | Mon Aug 20, 2012 | Really strong | Robert Cirillo |
| USEDCDS | Wed Sep 29, 2021 | Some thrift shop music purchases | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| WIZARDS | Wed Feb 3, 2010 | Some Hogwarts students | Kristian House |
| ZIGGURAT | Mon Oct 23, 2017 | Stepped tower of ancient Sumer | Timothy Polin |
| ZOOMEDALONG | Tue Oct 4, 2022 | Kept moving quickly | Joe Deeney |