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 50,584 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTCOLLECTION | Sun Mar 13, 1994 | BUCHWALD, CARNEY, GARFUNKEL, LINKLETTER | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| BASEJUMPERS | Fri Jan 28, 2022 | Extreme athletes with parachutes | Jem Burch |
| BEGETTER | Fri Sep 3, 2010 | Sire | John Farmer |
| CHIRPER | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | Cricket, at times | Joel Kaplow |
| DEATHTOSMOOCHY | Wed Oct 22, 2003 | 2002 Robin Williams film | Judy Cole |
| EMPERORPALPATINE | Fri Jun 10, 2016 | Film villain who says "Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side" | David Steinberg |
| GETSFAT | Sat May 2, 2020 | Swells up, as a lip | Paolo Pasco |
| GOBSTOPPER | Tue Sep 14, 2021 | "Everlasting" candy from Willy Wonka | Christopher Adams |
| HARDTOTELL | Fri Aug 26, 2022 | "I can't say for sure" | Robert Logan |
| HIDDENGEMS | Tue Apr 14, 2009 | What the long Across answers with circles have | Barry Boone |
| HUDSONBAY | Sat Mar 29, 2014 | Polar Bear Provincial Park borders it | Barry C. Silk |
| IMONABOAT | Sun Apr 3, 2016 | 2009 Grammy nominee with the lyric "But this ain't SeaWorld, this is real as it gets" | Natan Last |
| JEFFKENT | Thu Sep 12, 2013 | 2000 N.L M.V.P. who played for the Giants | Ian Livengood |
| KANORADOKANSAS | Thu Mar 20, 2008 | Plains border town portmanteau | Stephen Edward Anderson |
| KELTS | Sun Aug 17, 2003 | Ancient Brits: Var. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LABOURDAY | Sun Jun 12, 2022 | Canadian observance also called Fête du Travail | Will Nediger |
| LOCALOFFICE | Sat Jul 6, 2019 | Mayoralty, e.g. | Erik Agard |
| MAJORFIXERUPPER | Wed Aug 24, 2022 | "The space has endless possibilities!" | Colin Ernst |
| MEDIALLY | Sun Aug 13, 1995 | Toward the center | Nancy Salomon |
| MILLDAM | Thu Jan 22, 1998 | Structure near a flour factory | Patrick Jordan |
| MUDSLINGER | Mon Mar 5, 2007 | Smear campaigner | Fred Piscop |
| NITPICKED | Sat Sep 30, 2000 | Split hairs | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| OAKED | Wed Jul 6, 2016 | Stored in certain wood barrels, as 65-Across | David Woolf |
| OILPASTEL | Sat Jul 15, 2023 | Crayon alternative | Jeff Chen |
| OLIVERS | Mon Sep 12, 1994 | Hardy and North | Sidney L. Robbins |
| OVERTOP | Sat Aug 24, 2002 | Surpass | Chuck Menning |
| PAYINCREASES | Sun Jun 29, 2003 | Folded-up salary check? | Rich Norris |
| PLASMASCREEN | Sun Nov 14, 2021 | TV display option | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| PTAH | Fri May 6, 1994 | Chief god of Memphis | Manny Nosowsky |
| RAVECULTURE | Fri Mar 8, 2019 | Phenomenon characterized by electronic dance music | David Steinberg |
| REFERENCECHECK | Mon Sep 5, 2022 | Prehiring formality, often | Adam Simpson |
| RETRACTS | Thu Jan 28, 2016 | Takes back | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SECONDSTRING | Thu Sep 10, 2015 | Not starter-level | Tracy Gray |
| SITTINGIN | Sun Feb 5, 2023 | Auditing a class, maybe | Jeremy Newton |
| SNORKELERS | Thu Nov 20, 2014 | They're hooked up to breathing tubes | Timothy Polin |
| SPINART | Fri Nov 6, 2020 | Crafts created on a rotating platform | Aimee Lucido |
| SURCEASED | Fri Oct 31, 1997 | Discontinued | Matt Gaffney |
| TOUCHER | Sun Jan 9, 1994 | Faith healer, perhaps | Mel Rosen |
| UNROBES | Sun Feb 26, 1995 | Strips | Fred Piscop |
| UNSOLVABLE | Sat Jan 29, 2011 | Like the equation "x = x + 1" | Ned White |