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 50,606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTIONVERB | Sat Oct 3, 2020 | Spring or fall, e.g. | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| ALIENATION | Fri Sep 10, 2021 | Feeling of otherness | Adrian Kabigting |
| ALPHARAY | Sat Jan 28, 2012 | Product of some decay | Barry C. Silk |
| BLOOMINGTON | Tue Aug 22, 2017 | State university city in the Midwest | Timothy Polin |
| BUSHPILOT | Sun Sep 2, 2001 | Transporter to remote areas | Manny Nosowsky |
| CASHINONESCHIPS | Mon Dec 7, 2020 | Use French fries as legal tender? | Barbara Lin |
| CEPEDA | Sat Dec 1, 2007 | Baseball Hall-of-Famer Orlando ___ | Robert H. Wolfe |
| CHUCKSIT | Tue Jan 5, 2021 | Actor Norris got tagged | Amy Schecter and Christina Iverson |
| CONCLUSIVEPROOF | Tue Jun 4, 2019 | It settles a case | Jake Halperin |
| DEPLANES | Sun Aug 5, 2018 | Leaves for baggage claim, say | Alison Ohringer and Erik Agard |
| DUGAT | Sat Nov 3, 2012 | Probed | Milo Beckman |
| EATDRINKMANWOMAN | Thu Jul 5, 2001 | Ang Lee film, 1994 Best Foreign Film nominee | Peter Gordon |
| ERLENMEYERFLASK | Sun Aug 10, 2025 | ... something conical in a chemistry lab | Adam Wagner and Chandi Deitmer |
| FEEDMESEYMOUR | Mon Nov 15, 2021 | Request from the voracious plant in "Little Shop of Horrors" | Ian Rathkey |
| FILESERVER | Sat Jul 29, 2023 | Download source | Sam Ezersky |
| FORCEFED | Thu Sep 23, 1999 | Compelled to take | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| FUMANCHUMUSTACHE | Sun Feb 12, 2017 | "That villain in comics has sure gotta be sore!"? | Lynn Lempel |
| ILLCHANCEIT | Wed Jan 20, 1999 | Risk-taker's declaration | Fred Piscop |
| LACORUNA | Sat Oct 15, 2005 | Port from which the Spanish Armada departed in 1588 | Paula Gamache |
| LARCENY | Fri Nov 23, 2018 | Something "grand" that's not really so grand | Temple Brown |
| LUCABRASI | Mon Feb 11, 2013 | Personal enforcer in "The Godfather" | Gary Cee |
| MADISONAVENUE | Tue Mar 29, 2022 | The advertising industry | Jamey Smith |
| MODERNWARFARE | Sun Jun 30, 2013 | West Point subject | Alex Vratsanos and Jeff Chen |
| MOSCOWIDAHO | Wed Jan 7, 2009 | Hometown to college football's Vandals | William Frank Macreery |
| OVERSAW | Sun Sep 14, 2025 | Supervised | Daniel Grinberg |
| PATRONOFTHEARTS | Sun Oct 17, 2021 | Ballet supporter, e.g. | Jeff Chen |
| PORTMANTEAU | Sun Jan 12, 2003 | Blend of two parts | Patrick Berry |
| REGRESSIONCURVES | Wed May 14, 2025 | Visual aids on scatter plots ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? | Rebecca Goldstein and Adam Wagner |
| REGULATING | Fri Sep 6, 2013 | Doing a government agency's job | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| SCRIPTO | Thu Sep 9, 2010 | Classic pencil brand | Kevin Wald |
| SERVINGAS | Fri Oct 22, 1999 | Acting for | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| TENPENNY | Wed Mar 7, 2018 | Denoting a 3" nail, so-called from its original cost | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| TOMRIDGE | Sun Jul 10, 2016 | First secretary of homeland security | Patrick Berry |
| TZUS | Tue Sep 24, 2013 | Shih ___ (diminutive dogs) | Kevin Christian |
| ULTRASONIC | Fri Aug 25, 2017 | Too high to catch? | Sam Trabucco |
| VIJAYSINGH | Tue Mar 27, 2018 | Fijian-born golf Hall-of-Famer | Peter Koetters |
| VILLES | Sun Oct 25, 2020 | French towns | Peter A. Collins |
| VOODOOS | Sat Mar 18, 1995 | Magic systems | Manny Nosowsky |
| WANTONS | Fri Aug 12, 2011 | Lascivious sorts | Julian Lim |
| YTTERBIUM | Sun Aug 27, 2000 | One of the rare earths | Dana Motley |