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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANABOLIC | Sun Sep 28, 2014 | Kind of steroid | Todd Gross |
| BADNEWSBEARS | Wed Dec 10, 1997 | 1976 film about Wall Street pessimists, with "The"? | Jonathan Schmalzbach |
| BILLG | Wed Jan 7, 1998 | Microsoft chief, to some | Bob Klahn |
| BUSYASABEE | Wed May 28, 2014 | Working away | Tim Croce |
| CIRCUMVENT | Sat Oct 25, 2008 | Bypass | Karen M. Tracey |
| COMESACROSS | Sun Nov 24, 2024 | Finds | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| CRANKSUP | Sat Apr 20, 2019 | Gets started | Kevin Adamick |
| CYLINDER | Tue Jan 21, 2025 | Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically | Dan Caprera |
| DADOORONRON | Mon Feb 24, 1997 | Top 3 hit of 1963 and 1977 | Derek Allen |
| DIAMONDEARRING | Fri Feb 13, 2026 | The 14.54-carat Apollo Blue, e.g., which sold for more than $42 million in 2017 | Evan Mulvihill |
| DUCKINGSTOOL | Mon May 19, 1997 | Old instrument of punishment | Fred Piscop |
| EASTERNAUSTRALIA | Sun May 17, 2020 | Victorian home? | Byron Walden |
| EUROCOIN | Thu Feb 14, 2013 | New mintage of 2002 | Jules P. Markey |
| FLOCKTOGETHER | Mon Mar 30, 2015 | Gather as a group | Bruce Haight |
| FRANKMERRIWELL | Thu Jul 2, 1998 | Hero of many old dime novels | Pat M. Hugel |
| FREIDAPINTO | Tue Nov 21, 2023 | "Slumdog Millionaire" actress | Kevin Christian and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| FUELPUMPS | Sat Nov 20, 2010 | Tank-to-carburetor conduits | Joe DiPietro |
| GROSSED | Sun May 5, 1996 | Brought in | D. J. Kahn |
| GUARANTY | Thu Jun 8, 2017 | Financial promise | David Steinberg |
| HATEDTOGO | Fri Aug 18, 2006 | Didn't like leaving | Joe DiPietro |
| HAZELNUTS | Sun Apr 4, 2004 | Basil picks fruit while ... | Manny Nosowsky |
| INDIEFILM | Mon Apr 19, 2004 | Sundance entry, informally | Michael Doran |
| INDISPOSE | Sat Aug 16, 2014 | Render unwell | Peter Broda |
| MALTY | Tue Apr 8, 1997 | Like beer | Fred Piscop |
| MORALAMBIGUITY | Thu Oct 20, 2022 | Ethical gray area | Rebecca Goldstein |
| NATIONALECONOMY | Fri Apr 11, 2008 | Gross domestic product producer | Manny Nosowsky |
| NUMBERLESS | Sat Jul 31, 2004 | Untold | Byron Walden |
| OLIVERREED | Sat Jun 25, 2016 | Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director | Kameron Austin Collins |
| ONEFOURTH | Fri Dec 19, 2003 | Generous slice of the pie | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| PHLOXES | Fri Oct 8, 1999 | Wild sweet william and moss pink | Nancy Salomon |
| RAISESONESGLASS | Fri Jun 8, 2012 | Toasts | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| REDSUNS | Sat Jul 8, 1995 | Scenes at dusk | Randolph Ross |
| SIGNALFLARE | Mon Apr 19, 1999 | Trunk item | Gregory E. Paul |
| STABATMATER | Sat Aug 13, 2016 | Hymn set to music by Vivaldi and Haydn | Patrick Berry |
| STOLEUP | Sun Dec 14, 1997 | Caught by surprise, with "on" | Nancy Salomon |
| TASTEMAKER | Thu Mar 2, 2023 | Influencer, as with fashion | Malaika Handa |
| TRILOGIC | Sat May 25, 1996 | Like "The Forsyte Saga," e.g. | F. Piscop |
| WAFFLING | Sun Sep 25, 1994 | Equivocating | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| WHATSITALLABOUT | Wed Jul 17, 1996 | Song question of 1966 | M. Nosowsky |
| ZIGZAGGED | Sat Apr 8, 1995 | Went like lightning? | A.J. Santora |