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 50,484 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMIE | Fri Jan 24, 2020 | Actor Hammer of "The Social Network" | Scott Earl |
| AUTOMOBILES | Thu Jul 1, 1999 | They're hidden in 17-, 25-, 52- and 61-Across | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BETONIT | Thu Aug 16, 2012 | "You can be sure" | Ethan Cooper |
| CEORLS | Sat Sep 27, 1997 | Anglo-Saxon freemen | Matt Gaffney |
| CLONEWAR | Sun May 14, 2023 | Conflict over seceding from the Galactic Republic, in sci-fi | Sid Sivakumar |
| COMEBEFORE | Sat Mar 23, 2019 | Be more important than | David Steinberg |
| COMPAQS | Tue Aug 6, 2019 | Pioneering personal computers | Jon Olsen |
| COSH | Sun Jul 9, 2006 | British bludgeon | Patrick Berry |
| DIALARIDE | Sun Dec 14, 2014 | Transportation service for the disabled | Jim Peredo |
| DWELLERS | Tue Apr 6, 2021 | Inhabitants | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| ECOLOGICAL | Sat Oct 3, 2020 | Green | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| EDMONTONESKIMOS | Fri Feb 12, 2010 | 13-time Grey Cup winners | Kevin G. Der |
| ETHNICITY | Sat Feb 12, 2022 | Bit of census data | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| GILBERTS | Thu Oct 25, 2007 | Pacific islands in W.W. II fighting, with "the" | Susan Harrington Smith |
| GOINSIDE | Sun May 15, 2011 | Leave the outdoors | Cathy Allis |
| HALFMEASURE | Thu Jan 8, 2015 | Inadequate effort ... or the contents of six squares in this puzzle? | Jacob Stulberg |
| HOA | Mon Jun 2, 2025 | Rule-making grp. for a residential community | Anthony V. Grubb |
| HOMILIES | Fri Jul 8, 2005 | Mass communication? | Eric Berlin |
| HYACINTHS | Sat Jun 14, 2025 | Flowers in the same family as asparagus and agave | Barbara Lin |
| IXIA | Fri Jul 18, 2008 | Showy flower of the iris family | Mike Nothnagel |
| JACUZZIS | Sat Oct 10, 2020 | Where people get in hot water | Brian Thomas |
| MINIVANS | Sat Jul 25, 2015 | Sliding door locales | Kevin G. Der |
| OBAMASUPPORTER | Sat Jan 16, 2021 | One with a "Yes we can" attitude | Sam Ezersky |
| PARKINGTICKET | Sun Jul 16, 2023 | Slip before putting on a boot? | Michael Schlossberg |
| PENGUINBOOKS | Mon Jan 22, 2024 | *British publishing house founded in 1935 | Jake Halperin |
| PLEASEBESEATED | Sun Feb 4, 2024 | Assembly line? | Daniel Grinberg |
| POLARICE | Sat Dec 26, 2020 | Cap material | John Guzzetta |
| POLYNESIA | Fri Jun 28, 2002 | Part of it is French | Charles E. Gersch |
| RAVEMUSIC | Thu Jun 2, 2016 | Electro house or dubstep | Susan Gelfand |
| RIPPING | Sun Mar 4, 2012 | Lacing (into) | David J. Kahn |
| SCHLUBBY | Sat Oct 27, 2018 | Overweight and untidy | Byron Walden |
| SHARPEDGED | Thu Mar 12, 2009 | Like a saber | David Chapus |
| SKUNKY | Sat Sep 3, 2011 | Having been tainted, as a drink | Peter Wentz |
| SLAVA | Sun Jul 4, 2004 | Cellist Rostropovich, to friends | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TEEHEED | Thu Aug 14, 1997 | Tittered | David J. Kahn |
| UNTHAWED | Sun Aug 16, 2020 | Just out of the freezer | Francis Heaney |
| VALUER | Mon Feb 16, 2004 | Appraiser | Charles Barasch |
| VEBLEN | Sat Oct 20, 2007 | Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" | Patrick Berry |
| WALLMAP | Sat Aug 25, 2018 | Common classroom adornment | Sam Ezersky |
| WINEMAKER | Fri Mar 16, 2018 | Port authority? | Robyn Weintraub |