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 50,409 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMAZEBALLS | Sat Jul 15, 2017 | Incredible, in modern slang | Zachary Spitz |
| BAGGYEYES | Mon Sep 5, 2016 | Facial sign of sleep deprivation | Tracy Gray |
| BAILINGOUT | Tue Mar 17, 2015 | Rescuing financially | David Phillips |
| BEACHFRONT | Mon Aug 17, 2020 | Property along the ocean ... or a hint to the starts of 18-, 23-, 36- and 47-Across | Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| BOOKOFMORMON | Mon Sep 8, 2014 | 2011 Tony-winning religious satire, with "The" | Dan Schoenholz |
| DISTANTCOUSINS | Tue Mar 30, 1999 | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, e.g. | Randy Sowell |
| ELIJAHWOODS | Wed May 3, 2006 | Clubs for a "Lord of the Rings" actor? | Lisa Wiseman |
| EMBASSIES | Tue Jan 10, 2017 | Buildings in a Washington, D.C., "row" | David Poole |
| FIREFLIES | Sun Jun 21, 2020 | "___ in the Garden" (Robert Frost poem) | Byron and Harrison Walden |
| FLAREGUNS | Mon Sep 5, 2016 | Distress signal producers | Tracy Gray |
| FROZENTUNDRA | Mon Jul 11, 2011 | Icy expanse, redundantly | Ellen Leuschner |
| FRUITTREE | Thu Jan 31, 2008 | *Orchard part | Paula Gamache |
| GATORBOWL | Fri Apr 29, 1994 | December 31 event | Randolph Ross |
| GRAPESHOT | Fri Mar 29, 2013 | Small cannon balls | Josh Knapp |
| GUTTURAL | Sun Mar 19, 2000 | Like the "ch" in Bach | Greg Staples |
| HALFSIBLING | Sat Jan 21, 2023 | Brother from another mother, maybe | David Distenfeld |
| HAUNCHES | Sat Feb 26, 2000 | Hindquarters | Bob Klahn |
| IMARRIEDANANGEL | Fri Jul 20, 2012 | "Spring Is Here" musical | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| JUMPEDIN | Sat Aug 23, 2025 | Joined enthusiastically | Ryan Judge |
| MAINACT | Sun Oct 1, 2023 | What an opener precedes | Jeffrey Lease |
| METABOLICRATE | Fri Dec 15, 2017 | Burning figure | Jacob Stulberg |
| MOOREHEAD | Sat Feb 5, 2011 | Actress who played Endora on TV's "Bewitched" | Mark Diehl |
| NERDSPEAK | Sat Jan 11, 2025 | Jargon heard at Comic-Con or in a D&D game, humorously | Ryan McCarty |
| OBLIQUEANGLE | Tue May 19, 2015 | It's not right | Allan E. Parrish |
| OCULARLY | Thu Aug 12, 1999 | How things are seen | Robert H. Wolfe |
| OVERCOMPENSATION | Sun Jan 18, 2004 | Good for a wage earner, bad for a tightrope walker | Arlan and Linda Bushman |
| PRYERS | Sun Sep 10, 2006 | Snoops | Joe DiPietro |
| RADOME | Sat Jan 5, 2002 | Antenna housing | Rich Norris |
| RENOUNCED | Wed Oct 5, 2005 | Gave up | Nancy Salomon |
| SAYUNCLE | Sun Feb 12, 2006 | Surrender | Manny Nosowsky |
| SOMETHINGCAMEUP | Fri Apr 19, 2024 | Explanation for a sudden change of plans | Kate Hawkins |
| SPINAYARN | Sun Nov 16, 2014 | Fabulize | Andrew J. Ries |
| STAFFCUTS | Mon Sep 22, 2014 | Company downsizings | Ian Livengood |
| SWITS | Tue Jun 18, 1996 | Actress Loretta and others | E. C. Gorski |
| TEETHED | Thu Feb 24, 2022 | Experienced certain growing pains | Jake Halperin |
| TRACEELEMENT | Wed Nov 23, 2005 | Depict part of the periodic table? | Levi Denham |
| TRAVELINGINCOMFORT | Thu Jul 27, 2017 | *Enjoying first-class amenities, say | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| UNHORSE | Tue Aug 29, 1995 | Throw, as a buckaroo | John R. Conrad |
| YOINKS | Sun Apr 13, 2025 | Snatches, comic-book style | John Kugelman |
| YOULOSTME | Mon Dec 29, 2014 | *"Wait, wait ... go back" | Peter A. Collins |