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 50,755 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABELLFORADANO | Sun Jun 23, 1996 | Best seller of 1944 | F. Hansen |
| BATSFIVEHUNDRED | Sun Apr 23, 2023 | "Dracula has lived half a millennium!" | Katie Hale and Scott Hogan |
| BEBOPPER | Mon Jan 29, 2007 | Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie | Fred Piscop |
| CALAMONDIN | Sun Oct 6, 1996 | +Tangerinelike Philippine fruit | R. Max Hopkins |
| CHAPERONS | Sat Mar 8, 1997 | Some supervisors | Rich Norris |
| CHIOMEGA | Fri Dec 10, 2021 | Largest college sorority by enrollment (380,000+ members) | Joe DiPietro |
| DOWNRIVER | Sat Oct 8, 1994 | Toward the mouth | Rand H. Burns |
| EAVESDROPS | Fri May 4, 2001 | Is nosy | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FORTIFIES | Wed Sep 12, 2007 | Enriches with vitamins | Alan Arbesfeld |
| FOXYLADY | Fri Jan 6, 2012 | 1967 hit with the lyric "You know you're a cute little heartbreaker" | David Steinberg |
| FROSE | Tue Aug 22, 2023 | Slushy summer drink portmanteau | Jay Silverman |
| GAMEROOM | Sun Jun 7, 2009 | Place for matches at home | Jeremy Newton |
| GOESUPINSMOKE | Thu Nov 28, 2024 | Amounts to nothing, as a plan | Ricky J. Sirois |
| HIGHTONED | Wed Nov 23, 2011 | Pretentious | Ian Livengood |
| HIPPYDIPPY | Tue Oct 18, 2022 | New-Agey, slangily | Dan Schoenholz |
| HOWAREYOU | Sat Feb 25, 2023 | "Everything good?" | Trent H. Evans |
| ILLCHANCEIT | Wed Jan 20, 1999 | Risk-taker's declaration | Fred Piscop |
| LOWERBACKTATTOO | Tue Sep 10, 2019 | Body art that might be revealed by hip-hugger jeans | Ethan Cooper |
| MAJORITYOWNER | Thu Mar 22, 2018 | One with a lot of shares? | Ross Trudeau |
| NOWWEARESIX | Sun Apr 23, 1995 | A.A. Milne title | Randolph Ross |
| OWLETMOTHS | Fri May 18, 2018 | Insects named after a small bird | Ryan McCarty |
| OXTAILS | Thu Jan 19, 2017 | Ingredients in a Jamaican stew | Jacob Stulberg |
| PISHED | Sat Oct 21, 2006 | Directed a cry of contempt at | David Quarfoot |
| PLAYERSCLUB | Sat Jul 31, 2004 | 1998 Ice Cube film, with "The" | Byron Walden |
| PRESSSEND | Fri Nov 13, 2020 | Stop tinkering with an email | Sawyer Tabony and Ashton Anderson |
| ROBYNFENTY | Sat Jun 12, 2021 | First and last name of Rihanna | Brooke Husic and Brian Thomas |
| ROUGING | Thu Mar 2, 2006 | Making rosy-cheeked | Patrick Merrell |
| RUBIKS | Sun Sep 27, 2009 | ___ Cube | Patrick Berry |
| SACKDRESS | Sat Sep 22, 2018 | Garment originally fashionable in the late 1950s | Sam Trabucco |
| SCAMPERING | Sat Aug 21, 1999 | Like kids in a playground | Charles E. Gersch |
| SEVEBALLESTEROS | Fri Oct 3, 1997 | Two-time Masters champ | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SHUTTLES | Sun Feb 16, 2025 | Atlantis and others | John Kugelman |
| SLAVEREBELLIONS | Sat Sep 30, 2023 | The Haitian Revolution and the Aponte Conspiracy of 1812, e.g. | Ahmed Bayoumi |
| TEMPERANCE | Fri Jul 29, 1994 | Self-control | A. D. Cover |
| TENTHGRADE | Thu Oct 12, 2006 | Sophomore | Dave Tuller |
| TRACKDOWN | Sat Sep 21, 2019 | Obtain with difficulty | Joon Pahk and Erik Agard |
| TREERING | Wed Apr 3, 2024 | Annual growth indicator | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| TUNEINTOMORROW | Wed May 30, 2007 | "Don't miss the next episode ..." | Mike Nothnagel |
| TWOSIDED | Wed Aug 19, 2020 | Like most debates | Brandon Koppy |
| UNREVERSED | Sun Jun 23, 2002 | Normal, as a photo | Eric Berlin |