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 50,485 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMICES | Fri Oct 15, 1999 | Priestly vestments | Mark Diehl |
| BACKDOOR | Wed Mar 26, 2003 | Tryster's escape route, maybe | Randall J. Hartman |
| BEGETTER | Fri Sep 3, 2010 | Sire | John Farmer |
| BOUNDS | Tue Mar 11, 1997 | Kangaroo movements | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CLASSROSTER | Mon May 6, 2024 | Sheet with student names | Malaika Handa |
| CNNNEWS | Sat Sep 17, 2011 | It's shown on TV monitors at many airports | Peter A. Collins |
| CONANTHEDESTROYER | Thu Nov 30, 2017 | 1984 Schwarzenegger sequel | Trenton Charlson |
| DEPLETING | Fri Jun 7, 1996 | Draining | M. Jones |
| DRUNKDIALS | Fri Oct 21, 2022 | Buzzes while buzzed? | Rafael Musa |
| FATHERSDAY | Sun Jun 16, 2019 | It was first officially designated in a 1966 Lyndon Johnson proclamation | Joel Fagliano |
| HONESTLIVING | Fri Aug 9, 2002 | What an average person tries to earn | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| HUMIDITY | Thu Jun 12, 2014 | What a hygrometer measures | Mark Feldman |
| INACAB | Tue Sep 21, 2021 | How many people get around town | Daniel Okulitch |
| JAMBA | Mon Nov 29, 2021 | Big name in smoothies | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano |
| KEEPSTIME | Fri Aug 9, 2024 | Taps one's foot, maybe | Hemant Mehta |
| LEIFS | Sat Aug 18, 2007 | Conductor Segerstam and novelist Enger | Jim Page |
| LUNATICS | Fri Nov 21, 2008 | Bedlamites | Patrick Berry |
| MAGNETICNEEDLES | Fri Jan 30, 1998 | West pointers, at times | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| MESSILY | Fri Dec 3, 2010 | How a toddler eats | Matt Ginsberg |
| MICHAELAMMAN | Thu Nov 25, 1999 | A capital N.B.A. legend? | David J. Kahn |
| MISPLACES | Sun Feb 21, 2016 | Loses | Patrick Berry |
| NATURALLAW | Mon Aug 16, 2021 | Universal code of ethics | Freddie Cheng |
| OVERSUBSCRIBE | Sun Mar 4, 2007 | * subscapular | Randolph Ross |
| PATERNITYSUIT | Sun Jul 31, 2016 | Way to get to know a father in law? | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| PIRELLI | Wed Nov 23, 2022 | Italian tire company | Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock |
| PORTSALUT | Fri Apr 26, 2019 | Mild cheese with an orange rind | Kyle Dolan |
| PROPHESIED | Thu Jun 6, 2024 | Foretold | Michael Lieberman |
| RAREFIND | Sat Jan 14, 2017 | Thrill during an excavation | Andrew Kingsley |
| REPEATAFTERME | Tue Aug 2, 2022 | Swearing-in words ... or a hint to 17-, 22-, 48- and 55-Across | Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor |
| ROOFRACK | Thu Jan 19, 2012 | Auto attachment | Derek Bowman and Sarah Keller |
| SALESPERSON | Sun May 18, 2025 | Metric in a competitive family business? | Garrett Chalfin |
| SKITCH | Fri Feb 22, 2002 | Bandleader Henderson | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SOUPEDUP | Sun Jan 13, 2002 | Extra-powerful | Nelson Hardy |
| SWERVES | Sun Jul 4, 2010 | Sudden turns | Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach |
| THESCOTTISHPLAY | Sun Feb 2, 2014 | Superstitious thespian's name for a work of Shakespeare ... from which 21-, 23-, 37-, 58- and 60-Down all come | Dick Shlakman and Jeff Chen |
| TINMEN | Sun Jun 20, 2010 | Dealers in metal goods | Todd Gross and Ashish Vengsarkar |
| TOLIVEANDDIEINLA | Sun Sep 27, 2020 | 1985 thriller with the tagline "A federal agent is dead. A killer is loose. And the City of Angels is about to explode." | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| TUTANKHAMENSTOMB | Wed Apr 3, 2019 | *Howard Carter, 1922 | Ross Trudeau |
| UNPAIRED | Tue Oct 8, 2019 | Matchless | Ross Trudeau |
| YETSOFAR | Thu Dec 12, 1996 | Partner for "so near" | J. R. Conrad |