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 50,246 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHEDFOR | Sun Oct 31, 2021 | Wanted badly | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| ALLYEAR | Sun Dec 6, 2015 | Never closed, as a resort | Patrick Berry |
| APPLYFOR | Sat Sep 4, 2004 | Try to get | Patrick Berry |
| ARTOFTHEDEAL | Sun Nov 3, 1996 | Business book, with "The" | M. Nosowsky |
| BIOGENETIC | Thu Jul 23, 1998 | Like Ernst Haeckel's law | Randall J. Hartman |
| BOATRIDE | Fri Jul 31, 2015 | Outing on a river or lake | James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson |
| CHAIRMANOFTHEBOARD | Thu Dec 31, 2009 | Person making firm decisions | Frank Longo |
| DAGWOODBUMSTEAD | Thu Aug 10, 1995 | Office napper of note | Matt Gaffney |
| DRUNKENCHICKEN | Wed May 11, 2022 | Chinese poultry dish marinated in wine | Michael Paleos |
| ENCINOMAN | Tue Jul 28, 2020 | 1992 Brendan Fraser film about a thawed Cro-Magnon | Ross Trudeau |
| GABBY | Mon Apr 29, 2013 | Talkative | C. W. Stewart |
| GOODWILLSHOP | Mon May 5, 1997 | Secondhand store | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| HAIRYLEGS | Thu May 14, 2015 | Hindrances for a competitive swimmer | Kameron Austin Collins |
| HARDAT | Sun May 5, 2019 | Really busy doing | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson |
| HOOKEMHORNS | Thu Mar 7, 2019 | Cheer at a Texas football game | Brian Thomas |
| HUMORED | Sun Nov 23, 2014 | Played along with | Patrick Berry |
| IRISHPUBS | Wed Mar 10, 2021 | They're usually packed on St. Patrick's Day | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| ITSYOURLUCKYDAY | Fri May 23, 2025 | "Actually, I have good news" | Kate Hawkins |
| KELTS | Sun Aug 17, 2003 | Ancient Brits: Var. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| KISSUPS | Mon Jun 18, 2012 | Sycophants, slangily | Peter A. Collins |
| LOWTECH | Sun Jul 31, 2016 | Hardly electronic wizardry | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| MAMMALIA | Thu Sep 15, 1994 | Class to which all of us belong | Fred Piscop |
| MARVELOVER | Sat May 28, 2022 | Look at with awe | Joseph Greenbaum |
| MUNSTER | Fri Aug 29, 2025 | Member of a 1960s TV family | Jesse Cohn |
| OFFSIDES | Thu May 9, 2019 | Football offense ... or a hint to six answers in this puzzle | Lewis Rothlein |
| OVERHEADDOOR | Sun Jan 17, 2021 | Way into a garage, typically | Tracy Gray and Tom Pepper |
| PENCILCADDY | Tue Oct 24, 2006 | Desktop container | Gail Grabowski |
| PLAYPENS | Sat May 14, 2016 | They corral kids | Jeff Chen |
| PULLASIDE | Fri May 19, 2023 | Draw into a private conversation | David Distenfeld |
| PUTSONAPEDESTAL | Fri Oct 1, 1999 | Glorifies | John Wolting |
| REDOAKS | Fri Mar 26, 2021 | Amazon comedy/drama set in a New Jersey country club in the 1980s | Daniel Larsen |
| RESTORING | Tue Dec 12, 2017 | Eliminating the effects of wear and tear on, as was done to 38-Across | David J. Kahn |
| ROCKGUITARIST | Wed Dec 4, 2024 | / | Daniel Raymon |
| SLICKEN | Sat Apr 29, 1995 | Grease up | Fred Piscop |
| SOMETHINGELSE | Sun Oct 4, 2020 | To anyone who wasn't addressed above: "You're ..." | Sam Ezersky |
| SQUIRTFLOWER | Tue May 17, 2005 | Third trick | Sherry O. Blackard |
| THEWINTERXGAMES | Sun Mar 16, 2014 | *Annual draw for snocross fans | Jeremy Newton |
| WEAVING | Wed Dec 17, 2008 | Not staying in one's lane | John Farmer |
| WHOSIN | Wed Nov 4, 2020 | "Anybody up for it?" | Jack Murtagh |
| WOOSTER | Mon May 10, 1999 | Ohio town or its college | Frances Hansen |