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 50,573 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCENTAIGU | Sat Oct 31, 2020 | ยด, in French | Stella Zawistowski |
| AFRICANANTELOPE | Thu Feb 13, 1997 | What's GNU? | F. Longo |
| ATTENDON | Wed Apr 24, 2013 | Serve, as a maid would a lady | Clive Probert |
| BALLCARRIER | Sun Feb 1, 2009 | *Airline for Lucille? | Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg |
| BETAAPPS | Tue Oct 19, 2021 | Downloads in the testing phase | Ross Trudeau |
| BIGFOOTS | Thu Dec 17, 1998 | Yeti-like creatures | David J. Kahn |
| BOASTER | Wed Nov 20, 2002 | Subject of this puzzle | Manny Nosowsky |
| BYMARRIAGE | Wed Mar 13, 2002 | End of the definition | Ed Early |
| CAMELCASE | Mon Jul 25, 2016 | Style of "iPhone" or "eBay," typographically | Kevin Christian |
| CAROLLED | Sun Jan 6, 2008 | Spread some holiday joy | Lynn Lempel |
| CHITOWN | Sat Jul 13, 2019 | Home of Millennium Park, informally | David Steinberg |
| CLAWFOOT | Fri Sep 8, 2023 | With 57-Down, old-fashioned bathroom fixture | Rachel Fabi and Ken Stern |
| COSAS | Sun Oct 8, 1995 | Spanish things | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| ELECTRICRANGE | Fri Mar 24, 2006 | Kitchen fixture | Manny Nosowsky |
| FIDDLE | Sun Dec 23, 2018 | Tinker (with) | David Alfred Bywaters |
| FTLEENJ | Fri Oct 25, 1996 | Site of the George Washington Br. tollbooths | M. Nosowsky |
| HARDTOTELL | Fri Aug 26, 2022 | "I can't say for sure" | Robert Logan |
| HOTCOAL | Sun Jun 30, 2024 | Campfire remnant | Ginny Too |
| HOTSOUP | Wed Jun 1, 2016 | Steaming bowlful | Wren Schultz |
| ISATONESLEISURE | Sat Aug 27, 2005 | Has no pressing obligations | Byron Walden |
| KEYOFE | Sun May 21, 2017 | Setting for spring in Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" | Randolph Ross |
| KEYRINGS | Tue Oct 31, 2006 | Janitor's belt attachments | Patrick Blindauer |
| MADEINCHINA | Sat Feb 6, 2016 | Ubiquitous label | David Steinberg |
| MAKEADEAL | Sat Jun 28, 2003 | Bargain | Robert H. Wolfe |
| NESTLEUP | Wed Aug 29, 2018 | Snuggle (against) | Alex Bajcz |
| NITAS | Tue Feb 6, 1996 | Actress Talbot et al. | Randy Sowell |
| NITTANY | Tue Apr 1, 2014 | Penn State's ___ Lions | Andrew Reynolds |
| OKAYDEAR | Wed Mar 20, 2019 | "As you wish," to a spouse | Erik Agard, Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| ONETHIRTY | Sat Jul 18, 2015 | Setting depicted by this puzzle's grid | Joe Krozel |
| OWOSSO | Sun Dec 16, 2001 | Michigan town where Thomas Dewey was born | Fred Piscop |
| PARENTALCONSENT | Fri Aug 19, 1994 | Minor need, at times? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| PASSEDBY | Thu Apr 1, 2021 | Overlooked | Sam Ezersky |
| PEARLYGATES | Fri Jun 19, 2009 | Setting of many New Yorker cartoons | David Levinson Wilk |
| REBUILT | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | Put back up | Francis Heaney |
| SEVENYEARSINTIBET | Sun Nov 24, 2019 | Hit 1997 film condemned by the Chinese government | Frank Longo |
| SNIPERRIFLE | Fri May 11, 2018 | What's far-sighted? | Sam Ezersky and David Steinberg |
| STRUNGOUT | Tue Mar 21, 2006 | Debilitated from drugs or alcohol | Levi Denham |
| TENURETRACK | Fri Jun 3, 2022 | Path at a university | Robyn Weintraub |
| USCIVILWAR | Sat Mar 24, 2001 | Gen. Hooker fought in it | Mark Diehl |
| WEDONTHURSDAY | Wed Jul 14, 2010 | Ironic marriage plan? | Michael Black |