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 50,500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AQUARTERTO | Sat Mar 30, 2002 | Hourly time | Mark Diehl |
| AVAILABLECREDIT | Sat May 18, 2013 | What you may charge with | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| BERNADETTE | Sat Sep 25, 2004 | Peasant girl who became the saint of Lourdes | Byron Walden |
| BUNGEEJUMPING | Wed Aug 18, 1999 | Thrill-seeker's activity | Nancy Salomon |
| CALLDIBS | Sun Jan 3, 2010 | Stake a claim | Jeremy Newton |
| CHECKFORACCURACY | Sun Feb 17, 2002 | Good proofreader's reward? | Joe DiPietro |
| CIAOBELLA | Wed Jun 7, 2023 | "Bye, beautiful," in Bologna | Jennifer Lee and Victor Galson |
| CLINGINGVINE | Fri Mar 15, 1996 | Not the independent sort | A. J. Santora |
| CROSIER | Sat Oct 9, 1999 | Staff resembling a shepherd's crook | Manny Nosowsky |
| CRUDITES | Sat Sep 15, 2012 | Cocktail party trayful | Joon Pahk and Brad Wilber |
| EAUDEPARFUM | Mon May 3, 2021 | *Aromatic fragrance with a French name | Ross Trudeau |
| EULOGIA | Mon Apr 15, 2013 | Laudatory tributes upon someone's passing | Gayle Dean |
| EVECURIE | Fri Sep 20, 2019 | Journalist whose mother, father, sister and husband all won Nobel Prizes | Luke Vaughn |
| FANGBITE | Sun Apr 8, 2007 | Impression of Count Dracula? | Byron Walden |
| FAXERS | Mon Aug 20, 2001 | Modern document senders | Sherry O. Blackard |
| FIFTYSTARS | Wed Oct 4, 1995 | Old Glory feature | Wayne Robert Williams |
| GIVEFAIRWARNING | Fri Mar 7, 2003 | Alert in a sportsmanlike way | Harvey Estes |
| HAPPYCAMPER | Fri Mar 15, 2019 | Contented sort | Jamey Smith |
| LANGELLA | Thu Aug 20, 2009 | Tony-winning "Frost/Nixon" actor | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LESSSURE | Tue Oct 31, 2000 | More skittish | Bill Zais |
| LONGPANTS | Sun Jun 1, 2014 | Trousers | Tom McCoy |
| MACARONS | Thu Oct 31, 2019 | Colorful French cookies | Ezra Brauner and Jeff Chen |
| MIDSENTENCE | Sat Sep 1, 2018 | How someone may be interrupted | Randolph Ross |
| MISHANDLE | Fri Mar 28, 2014 | Screw up | David J. Kahn |
| MONACOMONACO | Sun May 8, 2022 | Grand Prix city | Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer |
| PARFAITS | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | Desserts with layered fruit and whipped cream | Susan Gelfand |
| PASSENGERVANS | Fri Jun 5, 2020 | Many hotel shuttles | John Wrenholt |
| PERSNICKETY | Mon Dec 22, 2025 | Overly fussy | Suzanne Oliver |
| RAUNCHY | Mon Jul 5, 2021 | Vulgar, as some humor | Peter Gordon |
| ROBYNFENTY | Sat Jun 12, 2021 | First and last name of Rihanna | Brooke Husic and Brian Thomas |
| RUNONSENTENCE | Wed May 12, 1999 | Lifer's beef? | Nancy Salomon |
| SCHOOLPRINCIPAL | Wed Jul 11, 2012 | Joe Clark in "Lean on Me," e.g. | Allan E. Parrish |
| SLAVESHIPS | Sun Mar 26, 2000 | The Amistad and others | Manny Nosowsky |
| SNUBBED | Tue Apr 8, 2003 | Gave the cold shoulder | Verna Suit |
| SPACETOURISTS | Sat Apr 15, 2017 | Ones counting down to vacation time? | Peter Wentz |
| STIMTOY | Sat Jun 22, 2024 | Handheld object used to release excess energy | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| STORMTHEGATES | Fri Aug 24, 2012 | Openly attack en masse | Mark Diehl |
| STRANGEGOINGSON | Fri Feb 16, 2007 | Unexplained phenomena | Charles Barasch |
| UNDERWIRE | Fri Oct 29, 2021 | Boob tube? | Aimee Lucido |
| WALLOW | Sat Sep 16, 2017 | Roll around | Natan Last, Finn Vigeland and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |