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 50,376 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFFIXED | Thu Nov 16, 2006 | Stuck on | Kevin Donovan |
| AUTOSUGGESTION | Sun Oct 15, 2000 | "You might want to check the carburetor," e.g. | Patrick Berry |
| BITMOJIS | Sat Jul 22, 2017 | Cartoon avatars on Snapchat | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| BONUSROUND | Fri Mar 11, 2022 | Opportunity to rack up extra points, perhaps | Robyn Weintraub |
| BORS | Fri Jun 23, 1995 | Arthurian knight who sought the Holy Grail | Manny Nosowsky |
| BURNTUMBER | Mon Oct 5, 2020 | Shade of brown | Evan Mahnken |
| BURYING | Sat Feb 5, 2000 | Graveyard-shift work? | Chuck Deodene |
| COCKLES | Wed May 15, 2024 | Bivalve mollusks | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| CURTS | Sun Nov 15, 1998 | Baseball's Flood and others | Robert H. Wolfe |
| DEMOSTHENES | Thu Dec 24, 2015 | Shows a Sega Genesis rival at an expo? | Derek Bowman |
| DREAMLAND | Sat May 10, 2014 | State of sleep | Barry C. Silk |
| EASTINDIES | Fri Aug 8, 2003 | Java locale | Myles Callum |
| GOESOFF | Wed Jun 28, 2006 | Explodes | Myles Callum |
| HASNOT | Tue Oct 13, 2020 | Lacks | Amanda Rafkin |
| ITWOULDBEASHAME | Thu Apr 29, 2021 | First line of a three-line poem | Adam Wagner |
| MAHARAJAS | Sun Oct 10, 2010 | Wearers of jeweled turbans | Patrick Merrell |
| MEDIAMAIL | Sat Sep 25, 2021 | Shipping option for books | Adam Simon Levine |
| NAGURSKI | Tue Apr 21, 2015 | N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Bronko ___ | Gerry Wildenberg |
| NAVARONE | Sun Jun 19, 2011 | Fictional island in two Alistair MacLean novels | Patrick Berry |
| NEARDISASTER | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | Close call | Frank Longo |
| NEWCONVERT | Mon May 22, 2006 | Proselytizer's success | Edgar R. Fontaine |
| OPSOMANIA | Sat Aug 24, 2019 | Intense craving for a particular food | Sam Ezersky |
| PARTICULATES | Sat Feb 27, 1999 | Smoke, essentially | John Scott Marrone |
| PLUTOED | Tue Nov 7, 2017 | Demoted [2006] | Greg Poulos |
| PREPAYMENT | Thu Jun 5, 2025 | Necessity for a reservation, perhaps | Timothy Gaetz |
| REHEELING | Sat Nov 22, 2003 | Cobbler's job | Robert H. Wolfe |
| RELISTS | Fri Oct 18, 2013 | Puts on eBay again | David Steinberg |
| ROBUSTO | Sun Jan 6, 2002 | Strong, in Salerno | Frank A. Longo |
| ROOTLESS | Mon Sep 4, 2023 | Forever wandering | Tom Pepper and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| SANKAPUTT | Sun Apr 10, 2022 | Finished the golf hole | David W. Tuffs |
| SOUNDLESS | Sun Mar 21, 2004 | Silent | Roy Leban |
| SPELLCASTER | Sun Sep 5, 2021 | Charming sort? | Grant Thackray |
| SPITSUP | Sat Jul 18, 1998 | Doesn't swallow | Rich Norris |
| SPOKENWORDALBUM | Tue Oct 2, 2012 | It has its own Grammy category | Ethan Cooper |
| SPOTCHECKING | Thu Aug 3, 1995 | Random sampling | Wayne Robert Williams |
| STJUDES | Sat Sep 17, 2011 | Memphis hospital, familiarly | Peter A. Collins |
| THEAMAZINGSPIDERMAN | Sun Nov 2, 2008 | Theme of this puzzle | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TRIPLEMILES | Mon Jul 12, 2010 | Special offer at an airline Web site | Freddie Cheng |
| UNCTUOUS | Fri Jun 23, 2023 | Overly slick | Kunal Nabar |
| WATERTAXIS | Fri May 18, 2018 | Interisland transports | Ryan McCarty |