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 50,583 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMSTATION | Sun Jan 27, 2013 | Source of talk, often | Jeff Chen |
| ANDROMEDAGALAXY | Fri Feb 13, 2009 | Locale of Krypton in the Superman saga | Doug Peterson |
| ANDWORSE | Sun Dec 15, 1996 | Even more distressing | R. Ross |
| CHEESEIT | Sun Nov 30, 2003 | Warning cry | Manny Nosowsky |
| CIRCUSPERFORMER | Fri Jun 5, 1998 | Seal, e.g. | Manny Nosowsky |
| COREVALUE | Thu Oct 6, 2022 | Honesty, kindness or respect, for many people | Simeon Seigel |
| CORPUSCHRISTI | Sat Oct 19, 2002 | Catholic observance | Donald E. West |
| DOYOURWORST | Sun Aug 20, 2023 | "Go ahead. I'm not scared" | Michael Schlossberg |
| EDUCATIONALFILM | Fri Sep 2, 2011 | Thing rolled in a classroom | Tim Croce |
| ERICBERNE | Sun Jun 8, 2003 | Author of "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| EXANIMO | Sat Mar 18, 2017 | From the heart, in Latin | Roland Huget |
| FIREPROOF | Sun Dec 10, 2000 | Like some vaults | Rich Norris |
| FIRSTPLACE | Fri Apr 11, 1997 | The Garden of Eden? | Manny Nosowsky |
| FOURDAUGHTERS | Sun Jan 15, 1995 | Priscilla Lane and others' title roles | Ernie Furtado |
| GHOSTGUNS | Sat Mar 30, 2019 | Firearms without serial numbers | Greg Johnson |
| GUERIN | Fri Apr 13, 2007 | Veronica ___, 2003 title role for Cate Blanchett | Patrick Berry |
| HATCHERS | Thu Sep 26, 2019 | Ones sitting on eggs | Doug Peterson |
| KATHIELEEGIFFORD | Thu Nov 19, 2015 | *TV celebrity who has owned both a clothing line and a wine brand | Andrew Zhou |
| LETTERPRESS | Mon Dec 6, 2021 | Gutenberg invention | Emily Rourke |
| LOVESCOMPANY | Sun Jan 16, 2011 | See 23-Across | Joon Pahk |
| MALTESES | Mon Oct 10, 2022 | White dogs, or bluish-gray cats | Byron Walden |
| MANITOU | Sun Aug 21, 1994 | _____ Springs, Colo. | Ted Fulton |
| NEGRONI | Sun Nov 14, 2021 | Cocktail made from gin, vermouth and Campari | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| NOPQR | Sat Jan 15, 2000 | MS contents? | Matt Gaffney |
| NURSLING | Tue Apr 15, 1997 | Infant | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| ONTHEUP | Sat Oct 7, 2017 | Improving, in Britspeak | Byron Walden |
| PERSIANCAT | Wed Dec 15, 2021 | Longhaired feline | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau |
| POTATOPEELERS | Fri Jan 22, 2016 | Tools with swiveling blades | Paula Gamache |
| REPAVING | Wed May 31, 1995 | Fixing the driveway | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| SIXTHREE | Fri Mar 3, 2000 | Like the N.B.A.'s Rod Strickland | Joe DiPietro |
| SLEEPLABS | Sat May 4, 2002 | Some EEG users | Rich Norris |
| STJUDES | Sat Sep 17, 2011 | Memphis hospital, familiarly | Peter A. Collins |
| STREWER | Fri Mar 11, 2005 | Scatterer | Manny Nosowsky |
| SUNDERANCE | Fri Oct 7, 1994 | Separation | Bryant White |
| TEEHEES | Fri May 15, 2009 | Giggles | Xan Vongsathorn |
| TOYSURPRISE | Wed Feb 9, 2011 | *Cracker feature | Victor Barocas |
| TRIALSIZE | Sat Mar 29, 2025 | Like many free samples | Christina Iverson and Jacob McDermott |
| ULTRAFASTIDIOUS | Sat Nov 19, 2016 | Like neat freaks | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| UNIRONED | Tue Jan 23, 2001 | Having a pressing need? | Nancy Salomon |
| WHENAMANLOVESAWOMAN | Thu Jul 5, 2001 | Percy Sledge hit of 1966 | Peter Gordon |