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 50,558 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLMEN | Thu Feb 7, 2013 | Those created equal, per Jefferson | David Levinson Wilk |
| BEDOG | Sun Dec 10, 1995 | Hound | Jim Page |
| CAVEBAT | Wed Mar 20, 2013 | Upside-down-sleeping mammal | Raymond C. Young |
| CHOKEUP | Sun Mar 16, 1997 | Become emotional | David J. Kahn |
| CLEANHOUSE | Fri Oct 7, 2005 | Completely replace the staff | Manny Nosowsky |
| COMPASSION | Thu Nov 9, 1995 | Empathy | Bob Sefick |
| DEADBALL | Sun Oct 24, 2004 | Dance floor remains empty at debutante party; ref rules it a ... | Patrick Berry |
| DEDUCES | Sun Jul 4, 2010 | Puts together | Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach |
| DEERSTALKERCAP | Sat Dec 28, 2024 | Iconic accessory worn by 1-Down | Sam Berriman |
| DIDNTSLEEPAWINK | Fri Nov 5, 2004 | Tossed all night | Manny Nosowsky |
| DONDER | Sun Sep 22, 1996 | One of Santa's team | C. Millhauser |
| DOOFUSES | Thu Jul 7, 2022 | Stupid, incompetent ones | Philip Wolfe |
| DOSEQUIS | Wed Apr 26, 2017 | Beer brand whose logo hints at the answers to 17-, 19-, 38-, 43- and 61-Across | Trenton Charlson |
| DRABEK | Thu Dec 5, 2002 | Cy Young Award winner Doug | Joe DiPietro |
| FROGKICK | Tue Jun 9, 2020 | Breaststroke move | Freddie Cheng |
| GETABOUT | Thu May 25, 1995 | Move, as with difficulty | Harvey Estes |
| GETOPEN | Sun Nov 13, 2016 | Shake one's defender | Joel Fagliano |
| HAPPYJUICE | Tue Feb 6, 2007 | Booze | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| HUMORLESS | Sun Jul 27, 2025 | Not funny | John Kugelman |
| ITSSATURDAYNIGHT | Sun Oct 11, 2015 | See 102-Across | David J. Kahn |
| KUWAITI | Sat Oct 6, 2007 | Dinar spender | Brendan Emmett Quigley and David Quarfoot |
| MEDICINALPLANTS | Sun May 31, 2020 | Some natural remedies | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| MUCHOF | Mon Nov 15, 2004 | Not quite all | Alison Donald |
| ODORLESS | Thu May 4, 2017 | Like natural gas and carbon monoxide | Loren Muse Smith and Tracy Gray |
| OHPRETTYWOMAN | Sun Sep 17, 2023 | Comment to Aphrodite (Roy Orbison) | Jill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp |
| ONETHOUSANDAD | Fri May 28, 1999 | M | Joe DiPietro |
| OUTRIDE | Sun Mar 23, 2008 | Defeat in a derby | Robert W. Harris |
| PACKMULES | Fri Jul 12, 1996 | Prospectors' helpers | Chuck Deodene |
| POTBOILER | Thu Oct 4, 2001 | Fine literature it's not | David J. Kahn |
| PUZZLEBOXES | Fri Feb 17, 2023 | Confounding contraptions | Jem Burch |
| REBURN | Fri Feb 27, 2009 | Co-firing technique used to reduce pollution from electrical power plants | Joe DiPietro |
| SANTALUCIA | Sat Aug 17, 1996 | California's ___ Range | J. T. Paine |
| SCREAMIN | Sun May 15, 2022 | ___ Jay Hawkins, rock pioneer who wrote "I Put a Spell on You" | Daniel Mauer |
| STUDENTAID | Sun Jul 4, 2010 | Gift from the well-endowed | Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach |
| TELLNOTALES | Sun Oct 14, 2012 | What dead men are said to do | Todd Gross |
| TERAOHM | Wed Jul 21, 2021 | Large unit of resistance | Alex Vratsanos |
| TERRAINS | Sat May 12, 2007 | Tracts | Rich Norris |
| TOLIVE | Sun Mar 15, 2020 | Translation of the French "vivre" or German "leben" | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| WELLDUH | Tue Dec 6, 2022 | "Obviously!" | Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu |
| WHATSYOURSECRET | Sun Jul 3, 2022 | Question to someone who looks impossibly young | Tom McCoy |