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 50,655 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABREASTOFTHINGS | Mon Oct 7, 1996 | "Au courant" | S. Spadaccini |
| ACETIN | Sun Apr 20, 1997 | Glycerol-based solvent | Charles M. Deber |
| ALEAGUEOFTHEIROWN | Sun Feb 9, 2020 | ⚾ ♀️ 😢 | Brian Kulman |
| ANTTREE | Sat Jun 25, 2005 | Venomous insects live in its hollow stems | John Underwood |
| ANYMAN | Fri Aug 29, 2003 | "Thou canst not then be false to ___": Polonius | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| APCARTER | Sat Mar 25, 2006 | Patriarch of the "First Family of Country Music" | Byron Walden |
| BACKBURNER | Sun Apr 6, 2014 | Sleeping sunbather, at times? | Patrick Berry |
| BACKHANDEDCOMPLIMENTS | Sun Mar 17, 2013 | "For a righty, you hit the ball pretty well on your left side," and others? | J. R. Leopold |
| BAPS | Sun Jan 5, 1997 | Some Protestants: Abbr. | W. R. Williams |
| DUNZO | Wed Nov 19, 2025 | Finito or kaput | Jeremy Newton |
| FEELSSEEN | Fri Dec 23, 2022 | Is comforted by not being ignored | Brandon Koppy |
| FOURBROTHERS | Tue Jan 16, 2007 | 2005 Mark Wahlberg movie | Dave Mackey |
| FULCRA | Sun Dec 24, 2006 | Pivots | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| GLASWEGIAN | Wed Jun 1, 1994 | GLASGOW: _____:: ... | Bob Lubbers |
| GOLDENMEAN | Thu Aug 7, 2008 | Aesthetically pleasing ratio of antiquity | Peter A. Collins and Joe Krozel |
| HEADSTANDS | Sat Oct 8, 2005 | Some clowning around | Byron Walden |
| ICALLBS | Fri Nov 1, 2024 | "Yeah, you're lying" | Spencer Leach |
| INCIDENCE | Fri Feb 23, 2001 | Frequency | Joe DiPietro |
| LABORPROTEST | Wed Apr 11, 2012 | Strike | David Kwong |
| LAKEBEDS | Sat Nov 2, 2019 | Geographical features that Mexico City and Kathmandu are built on | Paolo Pasco and Erik Agard |
| LEFTTURNLANE | Sat Jan 3, 2004 | Rights shouldn't be taken from it | James M. and James C. Jenista |
| LIECHTENSTEINER | Sat Dec 29, 2012 | Alpine native | Joe Krozel |
| MEASURINGCUP | Wed Jul 30, 2014 | Undergarment fitting device? | Jean O'Conor |
| MIDDLEEARTH | Tue Oct 22, 2013 | "The Lord of the Rings" setting ... or a feature of 17-, 24-, 38- and 49-Across? | Kevan Choset |
| MIRROROFTHEMIND | Tue Feb 7, 2012 | Imagination, metaphorically | Mike Buckley |
| MMMDCCCLXXXVIII | Sat Jan 17, 2026 | Longest number writable in standard Roman numerals | Adam Aaronson |
| NONTRUMP | Sun Apr 25, 1999 | Like three out of four suits | Joe DiPietro |
| OLDSTORY | Sat Oct 26, 1996 | Threadbare excuse | D. Niles |
| PRESCRIPTION | Sun Mar 16, 2014 | See 16-Down | Jeremy Newton |
| REBUILT | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | Put back up | Francis Heaney |
| RUMBLED | Thu Aug 24, 2006 | Had a street fight | Gary Steinmehl |
| SENDANSOS | Sat Oct 25, 1997 | Request help | John Scott Marrone |
| SNOWOWL | Sun Mar 11, 2012 | Northern bird | Victor Fleming and John Dunn |
| SQUILLIONS | Fri Nov 23, 2018 | Ginormous quantities | Temple Brown |
| STEVECANYON | Fri Sep 19, 1997 | Comics hero since 1947 | Rich Norris |
| SUASION | Sat Jan 4, 2003 | Effort to convince | Patrick Berry |
| THEATRICS | Wed May 5, 2010 | Courtroom antics, e.g. | Dan Schoenholz |
| TURBINES | Sat Jun 18, 2005 | Some are wind-powered | Sherry O. Blackard |
| TURKEYJERKY | Sat Aug 24, 2024 | Dried meat product with a rhyming name | Ryan McCarty |
| YOURFLYISOPEN | Sat Feb 20, 2010 | Exposure warning? | Paula Gamache |