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 50,681 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIROFFENSIVE | Thu Oct 29, 2009 | Series of sorties | Joe Krozel |
| AJIFF | Thu Dec 18, 2008 | In ___ (quickly) | Michael Vuolo |
| AMANS | Sun Jul 26, 1998 | "It's ___ World" ('62 sitcom) | Richard Silvestri |
| ARVO | Sun Apr 29, 2012 | Sacred music composer ___ Pärt | Tracy Gray |
| BITTERENDER | Thu Aug 21, 2025 | *Person who persists in a hopeless cause | Simeon Seigel |
| BOLSHEVIK | Sat Jan 23, 2010 | Lenin, for one | Karen M. Tracey |
| BRODOWN | Tue Jan 21, 2025 | Hang with the boys, slangily | Dan Caprera |
| COMMUTER | Tue May 9, 1995 | Suburbanite, perhaps | Gregory E. Paul |
| COWSMILK | Fri May 7, 2010 | Swiss cheese ingredient | Tyler Hinman |
| DEDEE | Fri May 14, 2004 | Actress Pfeiffer | Robert H. Wolfe |
| DEGRADES | Thu Nov 17, 1994 | Corrupts | Rich Norris |
| DIDNTBATANEYE | Sun Oct 27, 1996 | Showed no emotion | N. N. Joline |
| DIVIDERS | Sun Feb 13, 2022 | Binder inserts with tabs | David Steinberg |
| DOYOGA | Sat Jan 15, 2022 | Get into a pose, perhaps | Sam Ezersky |
| ESCAPECLAUSE | Mon Oct 21, 2013 | Stipulation that frees one of liability | Gary Cee |
| FAILUP | Wed Oct 5, 2022 | Get promoted despite poor performance | Jason Reich |
| FLICKOFTHEWRIST | Mon Aug 11, 2003 | Quick, easy motion | Randall J. Hartman |
| FREEDOMRIDES | Sat Jul 19, 2025 | Actions that, despite being legal, resulted in hundreds of arrests in 1961 | Erik Agard |
| GRAVITYSRAINBOW | Sat Oct 22, 2016 | 1974 National Book Award winner by Thomas Pynchon | James Mulhern |
| ICECOLDBEERHERE | Fri Sep 15, 2023 | Draft announcement? | David A. Rubin and Lee Demertzis |
| ITSAMATCH | Mon Mar 4, 2024 | "You both swiped right!," on Tinder | Samantha Podos Nowak |
| IVYROSE | Sat Mar 24, 2012 | 1957 hit for Perry Como | Barry C. Silk |
| JACOBJAVITS | Mon Apr 20, 2009 | Longtime New York senator for whom a center is named | Randall J. Hartman |
| KRAAL | Tue Sep 12, 2006 | Rural village in South Africa | James R. Leeds |
| LINEARIZE | Sat Oct 11, 1997 | Make straight | Fred Piscop |
| MOUSEHOLE | Sun Jul 26, 2015 | Place to set a trap | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| NICOLAUS | Wed Jan 31, 2001 | Astronomer Copernicus | Jon Delfin |
| NIGHTVISION | Sun Jan 6, 2013 | What some goggles provide | Dan Feyer and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| PAINTINTOACORNER | Sun May 13, 2007 | *Put at bay | Jim Page |
| PESSIMISTIC | Mon Dec 2, 2024 | Seeing the glass half-empty | Andrea Carla Michaels and Kevin Christian |
| PISHED | Sat Oct 21, 2006 | Directed a cry of contempt at | David Quarfoot |
| PUBCRAWL | Mon Nov 16, 2020 | Bar-to-bar activity | Jennifer Nutt |
| SLIPPEDDISK | Tue Apr 22, 2003 | Back problem | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SOUPIEST | Fri Feb 15, 2008 | Most mawkish | Patrick Berry |
| STATELEVEL | Sat Aug 16, 2025 | Where the 10th Amendment leaves many issues | Byron Walden |
| THIRSTED | Thu Jan 16, 2003 | Craved | Patrick Merrell |
| TOXS | Sun Sep 27, 2009 | How drunks drink | Patrick Berry |
| TWOLOVERS | Wed Jun 25, 2025 | 2008 romantic drama starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow | Ben Zimmer and Zach Sherwin |
| UDONNOODLE | Sat Feb 9, 2019 | Bit in some Japanese soup | Ryan McCarty |
| YOINKS | Sun Apr 13, 2025 | Snatches, comic-book style | John Kugelman |