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 50,609 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADHOCCOMMITTEE | Thu Jun 12, 2025 | Temporarily established panel | Daniel Bodily |
| AGRADES | Sun Mar 30, 2025 | Top marks | Simeon Seigel |
| ASPIRATION | Sun Mar 6, 2011 | Hope | David Levinson Wilk |
| ASSENTER | Thu Aug 6, 1998 | Yes man | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| ASSYRO | Sun Jun 16, 2013 | ___-Babylonian (ancient Semitic language) | Mel Rosen |
| BEADIER | Sat Oct 30, 1999 | Smaller and more glittering | Rich Norris |
| BLOODHOUND | Tue Feb 17, 2015 | *Relentless pursuer | Bruce Haight |
| BOEING | Sat Jan 7, 2006 | Dreamliner developer | Jim Hyres |
| BQE | Sun Jan 27, 2013 | Hwy. that ends near La Guardia | Jeff Chen |
| CADETBLUE | Sat Jul 5, 2025 | Uniform shade | Tracy Bennett |
| CHOCOLATECHIPCOOKIE | Thu Oct 30, 2014 | Treat represented visually by this puzzle's answer | David Woolf |
| CUKOR | Tue Aug 25, 1998 | "My Fair Lady" director George | Randy Sowell |
| DANCEHALL | Sat Jan 26, 2013 | Setting for the swing set? | Raymond C. Young |
| DAVIDHO | Wed Sep 25, 2024 | AIDS researcher who was Time's 1996 Man of the Year | Peter Gordon |
| DOWNEAST | Thu Nov 10, 2005 | Maine | Lee Glickstein and Craig Kasper |
| DROLLY | Sun Sep 10, 2000 | À la Thurber | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DUSKS | Sun Oct 24, 1999 | Times when headlights are turned on | Nancy Salomon |
| ELMOLINCOLN | Sun Sep 1, 2013 | First film Tarzan | John Farmer |
| ERISA | Sun Jun 5, 1994 | 1974 pension provision: Abbr. | Dean Niles |
| EXHORTING | Tue Dec 5, 1995 | Giving a rah-rah talk | Robert Katz |
| HIGHGEAR | Thu Sep 12, 2002 | You may kick into it | Peter Abide |
| HIRELINGS | Fri May 25, 2007 | Flunkies | Mike Nothnagel |
| INHALING | Sat Aug 12, 2023 | Scarfing down | Rachel Fabi and Christina Iverson |
| LEONPANETTA | Fri Feb 17, 2006 | 1990's White House chief of staff | Trip Payne |
| MATTBIONDI | Thu Aug 8, 2019 | Winner of five swimming gold medals at the 1988 Olympics | Timothy Polin |
| MOSEISLEY | Wed Oct 26, 2022 | "Wretched hive of scum and villainy," per Obi-Wan Kenobi | Simeon Seigel |
| MOVABLEFEAST | Mon Jun 9, 2025 | Easter or Passover, but not Christmas | Aimee Lucido |
| NECKLET | Sun Mar 1, 2009 | Stole, for example | Robert W. Harris |
| OLLY | Sun Jun 10, 2012 | Nonsense word repeated before "oxen free" | Xan Vongsathorn |
| POLYGAMY | Mon Feb 6, 1995 | Utah banned it in 1882 | Gregory E. Paul |
| PRETERNATURAL | Sun Dec 11, 2011 | Extraordinary and unexplainable | Timothy Polin |
| RIFLETHROUGH | Tue Jun 19, 2018 | Do a hurried search in | Peter Gordon |
| SEAFERN | Sun Oct 23, 2005 | Branching marine growth | David J. Kahn |
| SMOOTHOPERATORS | Tue Dec 15, 2015 | Don Juan types | David Levinson Wilk |
| SOLOPERFORMER | Fri Jul 17, 2020 | Person with no one to play with | Rich Proulx |
| STARTIN | Mon Feb 6, 2012 | Get to work (on) | Tom Pepper |
| THEDAYWILLCOME | Sun Dec 5, 1999 | Vision of the future in current events? | Joe DiPietro |
| TIRELESSLY | Sat Oct 28, 2023 | Without getting beat | Ryan McCarty |
| TOBEYMAGUIRE | Sun Nov 2, 2008 | Film star who played 115-Across | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TRAINMASTER | Sat Jan 5, 2019 | To whom a conductor reports | Andrew Zhou |