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 50,251 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APOLOGYTOUR | Sat Dec 3, 2022 | Guilt trip? | Kate Hawkins |
| BECALMS | Sat Mar 6, 2004 | Stops the progress of | Ed Early |
| CARDSHARPS | Sun Dec 11, 2011 | Bottom dealers, perhaps | Timothy Polin |
| CARSONDALY | Sun May 12, 2024 | Original host of MTV's "Total Request Live" | Avery Gee Katz |
| CHEAPTRICK | Tue Apr 30, 2019 | *Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band with the hits "The Flame" and "I Want You to Want Me" | Erik Agard |
| DIESELFUEL | Sun Jan 15, 2017 | Truck driver? | Joel Fagliano |
| DUGONGS | Thu Sep 2, 1999 | Manatee cousins | Joe DiPietro |
| FUELSSPECULATION | Sun Mar 24, 2024 | Oil futures? | John Kugelman |
| GETTHEWRONGIDEA | Sat Apr 16, 2016 | Misunderstand | Andrew Zhou |
| GIVINGUP | Thu Oct 5, 2006 | Quitting | Joe DiPietro |
| GRANDINQUISITOR | Fri Jul 23, 2010 | Christ's visitor in a tale from "The Brothers Karamazov" | John Farmer |
| HASAC | Tue Jul 12, 2016 | Is ready for the summer weather, for short | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| HUMMUS | Sun Apr 6, 2025 | Pita dip made from chickpeas and tahini | Kareem Ayas |
| IDBADGE | Thu Feb 18, 2016 | One might get you in | Bruce Haight |
| IONSTORMS | Sat Oct 25, 2014 | Sci-fi disturbances | Patrick Blindauer |
| ITSNOTPLUGGEDIN | Wed Jun 20, 2001 | Famous last words | Jay Sullivan |
| KINGJOHN | Mon Jun 15, 2015 | He sealed the 19-Across | Mike Buckley |
| LAPDANCES | Sat Sep 18, 2010 | Bachelor party entertainment | Natan Last, Brown University '12 |
| LASSOER | Sat Nov 8, 2014 | One pulling a calf, say | Barry C. Silk |
| LEANNA | Sun Dec 15, 2024 | Actress Creel of "Saved by the Bell" | David Kwong |
| MANDARINS | Sat Nov 7, 1998 | Powerful bureaucrats | Raymond Hamel |
| MARCELLUS | Sat Jan 2, 2016 | Roman consul who captured Syracuse in A.D. 211 | David Phillips |
| NONSELF | Wed Apr 20, 2016 | Material that is foreign to the body | Tom McCoy |
| ORDOCS | Sun Jul 20, 2025 | Sawbones, in brief | Michael Schlossberg |
| PETERINGOUT | Sat Jan 28, 1995 | Waning | Randolph Ross |
| RIFENESS | Sat Dec 15, 2001 | Opposite of scarcity | Frank A. Longo |
| ROCKABYEBABY | Mon Aug 14, 1995 | Popular lullaby | Ben Wheelock |
| ROSETTASTONE | Fri Jan 11, 2013 | Key discovery of 1799 | Ian Livengood |
| RUNAWAYJURY | Mon Oct 21, 2013 | John Cusack thriller based on a Grisham novel | Gary Cee |
| SAMEAGE | Fri Feb 20, 2015 | Like George W. Bush vis-à-vis Sylvester Stallone | David Woolf |
| SHAMMARRIAGES | Fri Jun 14, 2019 | Actors' unions? | Caitlin Reid |
| SMOKEDEEL | Mon Jan 12, 2009 | Russian fish delicacy | Lynn Lempel |
| SSRI | Sun Apr 13, 2025 | Antidepressant type, in brief | John Kugelman |
| SUBVERTS | Mon Nov 22, 2004 | Undermines | Gregory Paul |
| USEOTHERDOOR | Tue Apr 17, 2012 | [See note] | Milo Beckman |
| WHITEGAZE | Fri Sep 23, 2022 | Ethnocentric lens critiqued by Toni Morrison | Erik Agard |
| WILLBE | Thu Oct 12, 2023 | Words repeated in the title of a Doris Day hit | John Nagamichi Cho |
| WINEBARS | Wed Jul 17, 2002 | Sipping sites | Peter Gordon |
| YIELDERS | Tue Aug 31, 2004 | Polite drivers, at merges | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| YOUSE | Thu Feb 13, 1997 | Provincial pronoun | F. Longo |