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 50,871 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATEANDRAN | Thu Apr 13, 2023 | Made a fast break after breakfast, say | Robin Yu |
| BEYONDTHEPALE | Thu Dec 8, 1994 | Not at all proper | Randolph Ross |
| BUFFALOBOBSMITH | Mon Sep 8, 2003 | His friends sat in the Peanut Gallery | Leslie H. Nicoll |
| CANTWE | Fri Jan 31, 2025 | "What's stopping us?" | Adrian Johnson |
| CAVORTED | Thu Jan 11, 2007 | Made merry | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| CLOCKRADIO | Thu Oct 30, 2003 | Dual-purpose bedroom device | Patrick Berry |
| COMESINTO | Sun May 12, 2013 | Acquires unexpectedly | David J. Kahn |
| COUNTEM | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | Expression of numerical certainty | Derrick Niederman |
| CUCKOOLARK | Wed Nov 17, 2004 | Crazy antic? | Richard Silvestri |
| DISCORDANT | Mon Mar 3, 1997 | Off-key | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| DUMDADUMDUM | Thu Sep 4, 2003 | "Dragnet" signature sound | Nancy Salomon and Bob Peoples |
| EDWARDTHECONFESSOR | Sun Oct 1, 1995 | First king buried in Westminster Abbey | Frank A. Longo |
| FINGERSCROSSED | Wed Jul 3, 2019 | "Here's hoping" ... or a hint to 16-Across/10-Down and 37-Across/14-Down | Evan Mahnken |
| FLOODLAMP | Fri May 10, 2019 | Outdoor security system component | Andrew J. Ries |
| GODFATHEROFSOUL | Thu Apr 23, 2009 | See 71-Across | Steve Dobis |
| HARDSHELL | Thu Mar 16, 1995 | Kind of crab | A.J. Santora |
| HAUNTINGMELODY | Sun Oct 25, 1998 | Halloween music? | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| HOECAKES | Thu May 12, 1994 | Cornmeal concoctions | A.J. Santora |
| HOLDSASALE | Sat Jun 25, 2016 | Tries to unload things quickly | Kameron Austin Collins |
| LATECOMERS | Thu Aug 25, 2022 | Disruptive moviegoers, perhaps | Olivia Mitra Framke and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| LFRANKBAUM | Wed Aug 20, 2014 | *Best-selling novelist who wrote the children's poetry volume "Father Goose" | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| LIGHTSECOND | Fri Aug 2, 2013 | About 186,282 miles | Barry C. Silk |
| LIMOUSINE | Sat Oct 23, 1999 | Long way to go? | Frank Longo and Brendan Quigley |
| LOVELYRITA | Tue Jul 23, 1996 | 1967 Beatles song | G. E. Paul |
| MARLEYANDME | Sun Mar 17, 2019 | Biography of Ebenezer Scrooge? | Sophia Maymudes and Jeff Chen |
| MESSABOUT | Sun May 11, 2014 | Goof around | Peter A. Collins |
| MYTHBUSTER | Sat Apr 14, 2018 | Conductor of science experiments on TV | Sam Ezersky |
| NACROUS | Thu Aug 14, 1997 | Pearly: Var. | David J. Kahn |
| NOTCLEAR | Fri Nov 22, 2019 | Opaque | Emily Carroll |
| OUTMAN | Tue Jul 27, 2004 | Have more troops than | Len Elliott |
| SHIPSIDE | Tue Sep 15, 2009 | Pier, during loading or unloading | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| SPOTLIGHT | Sun Feb 17, 2013 | It brightens up a performance | Ian Livengood and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| SULEIMAN | Thu Mar 19, 2009 | Ottoman sultan known as "the Magnificent" | Laura Sternberg |
| TENTHOUSANDYEARS | Fri Jul 22, 2016 | What "Banzai!" literally means | Martin Ashwood-Smith and George Barany |
| TOASTMISTRESSES | Fri Sep 8, 2000 | Postprandial speakers | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| TRUSTYSIDEKICK | Sun Dec 2, 2007 | Reliable Suzuki? | Seth A. Abel |
| ULCERATE | Wed Mar 16, 2005 | Develop sores | Holden Baker |
| UNDOBUTTON | Sun Aug 3, 2025 | Way back? | Jeremy Newton |
| VEDANTA | Sun Nov 6, 1994 | Hindu philosophy | A.J. Santora |
| WAITEDON | Tue Aug 29, 1995 | Served at a restaurant | John R. Conrad |