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 50,561 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATTEMPTED | Thu Oct 23, 2014 | Went for | Patrick Blindauer |
| BABYBACKS | Mon Mar 27, 2006 | Some ribs | Janice M. Putney |
| BABYPOWDER | Tue Aug 6, 2019 | Bottom coat? | Jon Olsen |
| BEARDCOMBS | Fri May 21, 2021 | Men's grooming items | Sam Ezersky |
| BLOTCHED | Sat Feb 4, 2023 | Spotted | Kate Hawkins |
| BOOKSALE | Sun Jul 9, 1995 | Where to get a volume discount? | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| BUGOUTBAG | Sun Dec 31, 2023 | Evacuation survival pack | Matt Linzer and Rafael Musa |
| CAPITALU | Sat Apr 27, 2013 | Character in "Unforgiven" | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| CARBONDATE | Thu Dec 4, 2025 | Auto + Consumed | Stephan Prock and Jeff Chen |
| CESURA | Sun Apr 22, 2007 | Poetic break: Var. | Victor Fleming |
| CHIMING | Wed Jan 9, 2019 | Sounding like Big Ben | Trenton Charlson |
| DANGLES | Wed Apr 13, 1994 | Hangs like an earring | Jim Page |
| EGGSHAPEDHEAD | Mon Aug 3, 2015 | Notable 23-Across feature | David Steinberg |
| FATASAHOG | Sat May 31, 2008 | Porky | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FREELANCER | Sun Nov 24, 2002 | Charitable surgeon? | Nancy Salomon and Lee Glickstein |
| FRONTSEAT | Fri Dec 16, 2005 | Good vantage point | Joe DiPietro |
| FUSING | Sun Jan 31, 1999 | Solderer's activity | Manny Nosowsky |
| ITSTHEPITS | Tue Mar 15, 2022 | "Awful!" ... or a hint to the common element of 17-, 23-, 36- and 50-Across | Michael Lieberman |
| LARRYFORTENSKY | Tue Oct 8, 1996 | Eighth in a Taylor series | E. C. Gorski |
| LASHEDAT | Sun Apr 20, 1997 | Beat against | Charles M. Deber |
| MAINLANDER | Sat Jun 7, 2008 | Many a Hawaiian tourist | Karen M. Tracey |
| MIMICKING | Thu Mar 14, 1996 | Making like | R. Silvestri |
| ORGANICBEEF | Fri Oct 4, 2024 | What often carries a U.S.D.A. seal | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PAPAYATREE | Fri Sep 7, 2018 | Part of a Central American grove | Josh Knapp |
| PARESDOWN | Thu Oct 6, 2022 | Gradually trims ... or a phonetic second hint to solving this puzzle's theme | Simeon Seigel |
| PEPPERMINTCREAM | Sat Apr 16, 2011 | Zingy cupcake filling | Robert H. Wolfe |
| PODIATRIST | Sat May 4, 2024 | Ball handler? | Jacob McDermott |
| POWERTRIPS | Sun Apr 10, 2022 | Outbursts of megalomania | David W. Tuffs |
| ROSEWATER | Fri Mar 31, 2000 | Perfume | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| RUNONFUMES | Thu Oct 17, 2024 | Anger over a grammatically incorrect sentence? | August Lee-Kovach |
| SAVIOROFTHEUNION | Sun May 29, 2022 | One epithet for this puzzle's subject | Daniel Bodily and Jeff Chen |
| SEESTHEDAWN | Thu Jun 13, 1996 | Survives another night | D. J. Kahn |
| SEXCOMEDIES | Sun Sep 1, 2019 | "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" | Finn Vigeland |
| SHARPNOSED | Sat Jul 6, 1996 | Keen | J. DiPietro |
| SHAWSHANK | Sat Jan 4, 2003 | Prison in a Stephen King novella | Patrick Berry |
| STILLONTHETABLE | Mon Jul 7, 2025 | Not yet decided ... or an "artful" description for the last words of 17-, 27- and 45-Across? | Daniel Raymon |
| STOLIDLY | Thu Sep 12, 2019 | Without betraying emotion | Grant Thackray |
| TENTHGRADE | Thu Oct 12, 2006 | Sophomore | Dave Tuller |
| TONJON | Sun Jun 29, 1997 | Asian open sedan chair | David J. Kahn |
| TOUCHEDINTHEHEAD | Sun Mar 6, 2011 | Perform brain surgery on Mr. Begley? | David Levinson Wilk |