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 50,566 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AERIFORM | Fri Dec 31, 1993 | Gaseous | Norman S. Wizer |
| ALLEVIATION | Sat Apr 26, 1997 | Relief | Frank Longo |
| ALMSHOUSE | Tue Feb 8, 2000 | Home to the down-and-out | Fred Piscop |
| AMERICANIZE | Tue Nov 14, 2000 | Convert to McDonald's, the Gap, etc. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| AMORVINCITOMNIA | Mon Apr 2, 2007 | Saying about the heart | Richard Hughes |
| ANACTOFPEACE | Sun Apr 22, 2007 | "Poetry is ..." (Pablo Neruda) | Victor Fleming |
| AUDIOCLIP | Sat Jan 22, 2011 | Sound bite in bytes? | Victor Fleming |
| BONINESS | Tue May 23, 2023 | Supervisor + 9 = Quality that makes a fish hard to eat | Lee Taylor |
| BOXOFFICESTAR | Mon Apr 25, 2011 | Hollywood headliner | Joon Pahk |
| COMINGMOTHER | Sat Jul 17, 1999 | "The Aldrich Family" catchphrase, of old radio | Rand H. Burns |
| CROSSBREEDS | Sun Aug 28, 2022 | Mixes animal species ... as eight answers in this puzzle do? | Ori Brian |
| DISMANTLED | Sat Mar 31, 2012 | Put through a chop shop, say | Scott Atkinson |
| DOESNTCONCERNME | Tue Mar 6, 2012 | "So what?!" | Wesley Johnson |
| DOUBLEBOND | Sun May 4, 2014 | Attraction in a carbon dioxide molecule | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| EXTREMIS | Mon Jul 1, 1996 | In___(near death) | S. Spadaccini |
| FACEOFEVIL | Wed Apr 25, 2012 | Villainy personified | Peter Wentz |
| FINEASFROGHAIR | Wed Jun 13, 2001 | Answer to "How are you?", Southern-style | Nick Grivas |
| GEEKDOM | Sun Jan 3, 2021 | Realm for comic book fans, say | Paolo Pasco |
| GORGESON | Sun Jun 26, 2011 | Stuffs oneself with | David Levinson Wilk |
| GOS | Sat Dec 29, 2012 | Get-___ (starts) | Joe Krozel |
| GOVS | Sun Jun 1, 1997 | Some execs | Randolph Ross |
| IMPRESSION | Wed Sep 19, 2001 | Rich Little forte | Steven Dorfman |
| KRIPS | Sat Feb 24, 2001 | Austrian conductor Josef | Rich Norris |
| MARCECKO | Thu Oct 4, 2018 | Fashion designer whose namesake brand features a rhinoceros in its logo | Joon Pahk |
| MARKEDINCREASES | Thu Dec 28, 1995 | Like tie-dyed clothes? | Cathy Millhauser |
| MOTELROOMS | Fri Oct 20, 2023 | Stops along the way, say | Jacob McDermott |
| OFFUN | Sun Dec 18, 2016 | Barrels ___ | Derrick Niederman |
| PAPERLOSS | Sun Jun 14, 2009 | Unrealized hit taken on an investment | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PAYINTO | Thu Sep 5, 2024 | Fund, as a 401(k) | Joe Deeney |
| ROTISSERIEOVENS | Fri Aug 13, 2021 | Revolutionary inventions in the cooking world? | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
| SHEBOYGAN | Mon Jul 24, 2017 | Wisconsin city on Lake Michigan | Peter Gordon |
| SHOOTINGGALLERY | Thu Dec 13, 2001 | Carnival attraction | Manny Nosowsky |
| SMITHEREENS | Sat Aug 28, 2010 | Bits | Xan Vongsathorn |
| SOJOURNS | Thu Mar 21, 2024 | Temporary stays | Joe Marquez |
| SPEECHAID | Tue Jan 24, 2023 | Electronic device for a person with voice impairment | Aaron M. Rosenberg and Jeff Chen |
| SPIKEDPUNCH | Sun May 19, 2019 | What might get you a "ladle" drunk? | Natan Last |
| STARSHAKE | Fri Feb 19, 1999 | Timber defect extending from the middle outward | Dana Motley |
| TYPOMANIA | Wed Nov 16, 2022 | Obsession with being published ... NOT a flurry of transcription errors | John Hawksley |
| UKELELE | Sat Jul 27, 2002 | Something that's plucked: Var. | Robert H. Wolfe |
| YANGON | Thu Feb 9, 2006 | Myanmar's capital | Ethan Cooper |