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 50,654 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABORTER | Fri Jul 29, 1994 | Launch stopper | A. D. Cover |
| AIRBRUSHER | Fri Nov 4, 1994 | Photo retoucher | Matt Jones |
| BALMORAL | Mon Jul 12, 2010 | Scottish castle for British royals | Freddie Cheng |
| BOBMCADOO | Sat Feb 24, 2007 | N.B.A. scoring leader, 1974-76 | Byron Walden |
| BUZZING | Thu Sep 1, 2011 | Paging, say | Joel Fagliano |
| CAMPOS | Mon Sep 26, 1994 | South American plains | Sidney L. Robbins |
| CLANGER | Sat Sep 24, 2005 | Big goof | Byron Walden |
| COLORWHEELS | Sun Sep 1, 2019 | Reference aids for artists | Finn Vigeland |
| CREWNECKS | Wed Dec 6, 2023 | Hoodless pullovers often worn with other layers | Peter A. Collins and Bruce Haight |
| CRIMINALRECORD | Sat Jan 2, 2021 | Rap sheet, so to speak | Joe Deeney |
| DIAMONDWEDDING | Tue Jan 17, 2023 | Couple's 60th anniversary [Spanish] | Erika Ettin |
| DISAPPEAR | Fri Mar 18, 2022 | Dematerialize | Claire Rimkus and Brooke Husic |
| DRAWNIN | Thu Feb 7, 2002 | Attracted | Patrick Berry |
| GALVESTON | Sat Feb 18, 2023 | Onetime capital of the sovereign Republic of Texas | Kameron Austin Collins |
| GIVESPERMISSIONTO | Sun Dec 28, 1997 | L | Matt Gaffney |
| HELLOHELLO | Sat Jul 7, 2007 | Enthusiastic welcome | Todd McClary |
| KNOWNOTHINGPARTY | Thu Nov 12, 2015 | 19th-century nativist group | David Kwong |
| LIMEHOUSE | Sun Mar 5, 2000 | "___ Blues" (1924 Paul Whiteman hit) | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| NOVISAD | Sat Jul 5, 2008 | Serbian provincial capital on the Danube | Karen M. Tracey |
| OFFDAYS | Thu Apr 1, 1999 | Times when you're not at your peak | Kelly Clark |
| PLATOSCAVE | Sat Mar 13, 2021 | Ancient allegory paralleled in the plot of "The Matrix" | John Guzzetta |
| PLOPPED | Sat Jan 11, 1997 | Fell heavily | R. Norris |
| PRESUMABLY | Tue Jan 24, 2017 | In all probability | John R. O'Brien |
| PREWWI | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | Like the time of Franz Ferdinand's reign | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PROCESSORS | Sun Dec 31, 2023 | Computer circuitry components | Matt Linzer and Rafael Musa |
| RIVERDELTA | Tue Jun 18, 2013 | *Fertile area where a stream empties into an ocean | Tim Croce |
| RUBNOSES | Mon May 29, 2017 | Kiss like an Eskimo | Jeff Chen and Seth Geltman |
| SENIORDISCOUNT | Tue Dec 30, 2008 | Incentive aimed at golden agers | Doug Peterson |
| SHELLSOUTCASH | Mon Aug 17, 2020 | Spends moolah | Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| SMASHUPS | Wed Mar 1, 2000 | They attract rubberneckers | M. Francis Vuolo |
| TAILBACK | Wed Jul 20, 2005 | Offensive football position | Roy Leban |
| TALKINGBOOK | Sun Jul 23, 1995 | Recording item launched in 1945 | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| TALLANDSLIM | Sat Jan 6, 2007 | Like a string bean | Robert H. Wolfe |
| TERRIBLEIDEA | Sun Nov 15, 2020 | Many a dare, in hindsight | Caitlin Reid |
| THIRDWORLD | Tue Jul 11, 2000 | Unindustrialized | Nick Grivas and Nancy Salomon |
| TIMBERLANDS | Sat Jul 6, 2019 | Footwear with a tree logo | Erik Agard |
| TIRINGOF | Sun Aug 14, 2022 | Getting bored with | Jeff Chen and Jim Horne |
| TWOPHASE | Sat Apr 17, 2004 | Dual | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| VAUGHAN | Sat Nov 26, 2005 | 1982 Grammy-winning singer for "Gershwin Live!" | Rich Norris |
| XSANDYS | Sun Mar 11, 2018 | Algebraic variables | Matthew Sewell |