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 50,565 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANCIENTMAYAN | Sun Sep 14, 2008 | Cancún resident, once | Jeremy Newton |
| ARTBRUT | Thu May 14, 2015 | Paintings outside the mainstream, per Jean Dubuffet | Kameron Austin Collins |
| BOUNDS | Tue Mar 11, 1997 | Kangaroo movements | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CHAPATI | Sat Sep 6, 2025 | Bread whose dough is rolled on a chakla | Kunal Nabar |
| COCONUTS | Wed Jul 2, 2008 | Milk sources | Daniel Kantor |
| CROSSBREEDING | Sat Apr 16, 2022 | Practice that yields mixed results? | Hemant Mehta |
| DEADCENTER | Thu May 10, 2018 | Bull's-eye ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | Caitlin Reid |
| DEEDIDO | Sun Oct 18, 2009 | Jazz standard whose title is repeatedly sung after "Honey ..." | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DIATONIC | Tue Dec 26, 2000 | Like a certain musical scale | Gene Newman |
| DIVEINHEADFIRST | Mon Aug 31, 2015 | Attack an endeavor vigorously | Michael Dewey |
| DODECA | Thu May 5, 2011 | Twelve: Prefix | Joel Fagliano |
| EYESOFBLUE | Wed Sep 12, 2018 | Attribute for "my girl" after "Five Foot Two" in a 1920s tune | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| GALAGA | Tue Dec 1, 2020 | Classic 1980s space warfare video game | Byron Walden |
| HACKERS | Sun Feb 19, 2017 | WikiLeaks associates | Bruce Haight |
| HADABEEF | Thu May 19, 2016 | Was unhappy (with) | Morton J. Mendelson |
| HALVAH | Sun Aug 7, 1994 | Honeyed Turkish confection | Dean Niles |
| HANGUP | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | Show no tolerance to telemarketers | Joel Kaplow |
| HARDIER | Sun Jan 21, 2024 | Like kale vis-à-vis lettuce | John Westwig |
| JOINTHECLUB | Mon Jun 16, 2003 | Get on board | Norma Johnson |
| LETTERMEN | Sat Sep 21, 2013 | Students with outstanding character? | Tim Croce |
| LIEABOUT | Fri Jan 18, 2019 | Loaf | Andrew J. Ries |
| LITTLEDARLIN | Sun Feb 9, 1997 | Amore from the Diamonds, 1957 | D. Niles |
| MAHOUT | Wed Jul 7, 1999 | Elephant driver | Richard Silvestri |
| MAYORESS | Fri May 2, 2003 | Chicago's Jane Byrne, once | Dana Motley |
| MINTFAMILY | Thu Jan 8, 2009 | Sage and thyme are in it | Joe DiPietro |
| MONTENEGRO | Sat Jan 30, 1999 | European kingdom, 1878-1918 | Chuck Deodene |
| OARLOP | Fri Mar 22, 1996 | Rabbit whose ears stick out at right angles to the head | F. A. Longo |
| ONITSEND | Fri Nov 8, 2019 | How a sofa might be turned for moving | Peter Wentz |
| PHOEBESNOW | Tue Jun 10, 2008 | "Poetry Man" singer | Barry C. Silk |
| PRETTYASAPICTURE | Sun Feb 19, 2023 | Photoshop? | Rebecca Goldstein |
| PUZZLESOLVER | Sun Dec 5, 1993 | You, now | Manny Nosowsky |
| QUAKER | Wed Apr 25, 2007 | Friend | John Farmer |
| ROCKMUSIC | Wed Oct 11, 2023 | Output of the Rolling Stones, appropriately | Miranda Kany |
| SCARPIA | Sun Dec 19, 2004 | "Tosca" villain | Frances Hansen (1919-2004) |
| SICKNESS | Wed May 21, 2025 | Something feigned by Ferris Bueller to get out of school | Ilana Levene and Scott Hogan |
| SLEDDED | Sun Jun 29, 1997 | Traveled by double-ripper | David J. Kahn |
| SLIMING | Fri Jun 1, 2012 | Activity in "Ghostbusters" | Joe Krozel |
| STEAMILY | Fri Apr 4, 1997 | How some "Melrose Place" stories proceed | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| VACUOUS | Tue Nov 27, 2007 | Empty, as a stare | Julie Ann Bowling |
| WAV | Thu Jul 10, 2003 | Form of music files on the Net | Michael Shteyman |