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 50,440 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMELIABLOOMER | Thu Aug 26, 2004 | 19th-century dress reformer who advocated 20-Across | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| AREOMETRIC | Sun Jun 4, 1995 | Of a liquid's specific gravity | Bryant White |
| AVISES | Fri Sep 3, 1999 | Some rentals | David J. Kahn |
| BLACKFORESTHAM | Sun Mar 12, 2023 | German deli meat / Discussion | David Tuffs |
| BORAH | Sun Jan 30, 1994 | Maverick Idaho Senator | Alex K. Justin |
| BOUGHS | Mon Nov 30, 2009 | Tree branches | Oliver Hill |
| COCKAHOOP | Sat Jul 14, 2012 | Triumphantly boastful | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| COWCOLLEGE | Mon Sep 18, 2000 | Where Elsie gets educated? | Sherry O. Blackard and Lyell Rodieck |
| CRASSNESS | Sat Oct 29, 1994 | Vulgarity | Frank A. Longo |
| DISCOLOR | Sun Dec 5, 2010 | Fade, maybe | Ben Pall |
| DRUGWARS | Sat Feb 6, 2016 | Subject of the 2015 film "Sicario" | David Steinberg |
| EIGHTDAYS | Thu Sep 26, 2013 | Length of a Beatles "week" | Tom Pepper and Victor Barocas |
| EXPANSION | Tue Mar 2, 2021 | Increase in the number of teams in a league, e.g. | Ross Trudeau |
| FLOPPED | Fri Sep 10, 2010 | Was a turkey | Peter Wentz |
| GEEKOUT | Fri Nov 8, 2019 | Engage in unabashed nerdiness | Peter Wentz |
| GIFTIE | Sun Jun 16, 2002 | "O wad some Pow'r the ___ gie us": Burns | Manny Nosowsky |
| HENRYHYDE | Tue Dec 28, 2004 | Double-H of politics | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| HOGSHEAD | Sat Jan 27, 2024 | Large wine cask | Grace Warrington and Greg Warrington |
| INCITER | Fri May 28, 1999 | Rabble-rouser | Joe DiPietro |
| IRONJAWED | Tue Nov 2, 2010 | Exhibiting fierce determination | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JELLYJAR | Mon Apr 20, 2009 | Smucker's container | Randall J. Hartman |
| JOHANNS | Sun Sep 19, 1999 | Strauss and son | Manny Nosowsky |
| LIAISING | Sat Nov 14, 2020 | Working as a go-between | Emily Carroll and Erik Agard |
| LIFESENTENCE | Sun Sep 14, 1997 | The maximum, often | Frank Longo |
| OFOUR | Tue Oct 14, 2008 | In the year ___ Lord ... | Lucy Gardner Anderson |
| OONACHAPLIN | Sat Dec 8, 2018 | Talisa Maegyr's portrayer on "Game of Thrones" | Trenton Charlson and David Steinberg |
| RAYOFHOPE | Sun Nov 26, 2000 | Bright, shining intangible? | Patrick Berry |
| REASK | Fri Feb 16, 2007 | Send another invitation | Charles Barasch |
| REITERATED | Wed Mar 16, 1994 | Emphasized, in away | Fred Piscop |
| SCOOTERED | Thu Jan 31, 2013 | Traveled by Vespa | Mike Buckley |
| SNIFFING | Sat Jan 25, 2003 | Cold sound | Patrick Berry |
| SPEEDAWAY | Sat Sep 16, 2000 | Hightail it | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SPORTSREPORTER | Wed Feb 21, 2018 | One doing a locker room interview | Ori Brian and Zachary Spitz |
| SUNDOWNS | Sat Mar 25, 2006 | Regular settings | Byron Walden |
| THATISTOSAY | Fri Oct 12, 2018 | "In other words ..." | Erik Agard and Bruce Haight |
| THEGREENHAT | Sun Mar 17, 1996 | 1924 Michael Arlen novel about London society | Peter O'Gordon |
| VERN | Wed Mar 15, 2017 | HGTV personality ___ Yip | Bruce Haight |
| WINLESS | Sun Sep 1, 2024 | At the bottom of the standings, perhaps | Chandi Deitmer and Matthew Stock |
| WITHSTANDS | Sat Feb 5, 2011 | Holds off | Mark Diehl |
| YEASTED | Sat Dec 25, 1999 | Fermented | John Scott Marrone |