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 50,612 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADEQUACY | Thu Oct 19, 2000 | Suitability | Patrick Jordan |
| ASSESSMENTROLLS | Fri Sep 28, 2007 | Records of interest to real estate agents | Harvey Estes |
| BRASSWARE | Sat Oct 28, 2017 | Many doorknobs, faucets, candleholders, etc. | Roland Huget |
| BUTTOCK | Tue Apr 22, 2014 | Half moon? | Ed Sessa |
| CODYS | Thu May 7, 2009 | Buffalo Bill ___ Wild West Show | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CONSTRAINS | Thu Feb 28, 2013 | Hinders | Joe Krozel |
| COVERALLS | Tue Apr 29, 2014 | Some work clothes | Jules P. Markey |
| DONTTURNBACK | Sat Jan 3, 2004 | Resolute advice to the hesitant | James M. and James C. Jenista |
| DURSLEY | Sun Jun 6, 2021 | Surname of Harry Potter's adoptive family | Robyn Weintraub |
| EXTRAPOINTS | Sun Jan 30, 2022 | Scores for placekickers | Ross Trudeau |
| FAUXDIAMOND | Sat Aug 11, 2018 | Blarney stone? | Ryan McCarty |
| FIDDLES | Wed Sep 6, 2006 | Hoedown staples | Manny Nosowsky |
| GIANTANTEATER | Sun May 13, 2007 | *Toothless South American animal | Jim Page |
| GIVETHESTINKEYE | Sun Mar 1, 2020 | SMEILL | Sam Trabucco |
| INNERPLANET | Thu Mar 26, 2020 | Mercury or Earth, e.g. | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| KEDROVA | Sun Oct 26, 2014 | Lila ___, Oscar winner for "Zorba the Greek" | Caleb Emmons |
| MINERALHARDNESS | Sun May 12, 2019 | What's measured by [circled letters] | Victor Barocas |
| MYSTERYNOVEL | Thu Aug 11, 1994 | Poser | Bryant White |
| NAPPA | Sat Mar 22, 2008 | Soft leather used in wallets, whose name derives from a place in California | Byron Walden |
| NOODLING | Mon Feb 17, 2025 | Messing around, as with an instrument or ideas | Kate Hawkins and Erica Hsiung Wojcik |
| OBLATES | Thu Aug 2, 2012 | Monastery residents who have not taken monastic vows | Xan Vongsathorn |
| OVERSTRUNG | Sat Apr 6, 2013 | Very tense | Michael Wiesenberg |
| PANDABEAR | Tue Nov 29, 2011 | Chinese zoo attraction | Aimee Lucido |
| PECTORAL | Sat Jan 10, 2009 | Kind of fin on a fish | Bob Klahn |
| PHARMAREP | Fri Jul 5, 2019 | One making a living by pushing drugs, informally | Freddie Cheng |
| PIONEERED | Fri Apr 7, 1995 | Trailblazed | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| PUTONTHEDOG | Tue Dec 27, 1994 | Have airs, like Rover? | Ernie Furtado |
| PUTSINATRANCE | Wed Nov 12, 2008 | Hypnotizes | Peter A. Collins |
| ROUNDERS | Sun Jul 17, 2022 | 1998 Matt Damon film featuring this puzzle's game | Greg Slovacek |
| SANDRAKES | Thu Jul 29, 2010 | Golf groundskeepers' tools | Peter A. Collins |
| SOBSISTERS | Sat Feb 3, 2018 | Overly sentimental writers | Sam Ezersky and Byron Walden |
| STOOPDOWN | Wed Mar 16, 2022 | Duck | Joseph Gangi |
| STUMPERS | Wed Nov 3, 1999 | Tough puzzles | Greg Staples |
| SWIMSHIRT | Sun Jan 7, 2024 | Certain beach top | Michael Schlossberg |
| TAXIRIDE | Sat Oct 24, 2009 | It begins where a person hails from | Paula Gamache |
| TEETERONTHEEDGE | Fri Aug 24, 2018 | Flirt with disaster | Roland Huget |
| THEI | Sun Nov 16, 2025 | What a detail-oriented person might "dot" | Randolph Ross |
| TURNTHECORNER | Mon May 14, 2012 | Pass through a crisis safely | John Dunn |
| WHENTHECATSAWAY | Mon Apr 10, 1995 | With 36 Across, shirker's comment | Sidney L. Robbins |
| YOBA | Sat Jun 24, 2023 | Malik ___, actor on "God Friended Me" | Spencer Leach and Quiara Vasquez |