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 50,654 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABNEGATED | Fri Oct 8, 1999 | Gave up | Nancy Salomon |
| ANYBODYHOME | Sun Jan 20, 2019 | Baseball scorekeeper | Richard Crowe |
| BIGENCHILADA | Mon Apr 16, 2012 | Influential sort | Lynn Lempel |
| CONJURER | Sun Jun 2, 1996 | Wizard | R. Norris |
| DARKGREEN | Thu May 24, 2018 | What Tropical Rain Forest is, in a Crayola box | Erik Agard and Andy Kravis |
| DISGRACERS | Fri Sep 22, 1995 | Black-eye bringers | Jim Page |
| DOGDOOR | Sat Oct 26, 2019 | Barker's entrance? | Sam Trabucco |
| DOON | Sun Jul 15, 2018 | ___ the sly (be secretive about) | Sam Ezersky and Byron Walden |
| FIENDING | Fri May 31, 2024 | Hankering, slangily | Aidan Deshong |
| GALEA | Tue Dec 11, 2001 | Helmetlike flower petal | A. J. Santora |
| GIANTANTEATER | Sun May 13, 2007 | *Toothless South American animal | Jim Page |
| HENRYMOORE | Sat Dec 23, 2006 | Abstract sculptor whose work is seen at Lincoln Center | Myles Callum |
| IMMIGRATE | Fri Jul 25, 1997 | Resettle | Harvey Estes |
| INCLINEDTO | Sat Mar 8, 2025 | Thinking that one might | Joe Deeney |
| JOKEY | Wed Dec 21, 2016 | Hardly serious | Jeff Chen and Seth Geltman |
| KEEPSITTOGETHER | Sat Jul 7, 2018 | Doesn't snap | Ryan McCarty |
| MACARONS | Thu Oct 31, 2019 | Colorful French cookies | Ezra Brauner and Jeff Chen |
| MILITANTS | Tue Jul 2, 2002 | Black Panthers, e.g. | John R. Conrad |
| NOONEELSE | Wed May 20, 2009 | Only you | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| NOTWORTHAWHOOP | Thu Feb 3, 1994 | Nothing to shout about | A.J. Santora |
| OKTOBERFEST | Fri Dec 12, 2014 | Annual event held in the Theresienwiese | Evan Birnholz |
| PAIROFJOKERS | Tue Apr 5, 2016 | Cards #53 and #54 in a deck ... or a hint to the answers to 19-, 26-, 35- and 47-Across | Dan Schoenholz |
| PALADINS | Fri Jun 17, 2022 | Heroic knights | Pao Roy |
| PEACEKEEPER | Mon Jan 27, 2014 | *One placed between warring parties | James Tuttle |
| POLICEINFORMER | Tue Mar 20, 2012 | One who engages in finger-pointing | Will Nediger |
| RADICLE | Sun Dec 18, 2016 | Part of a plant embryo that develops into a root | Derrick Niederman |
| RINSERS | Wed Jan 7, 2015 | Some salon workers | Greg Johnson |
| SAINTJOHNS | Wed May 27, 1998 | Newfoundland's capital | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| SMATTERS | Sat Oct 3, 1998 | Dabbles (in) | Rich Norris |
| SPIGOTS | Thu Jan 5, 1995 | Taps | Harvey Estes |
| SPLITAGUT | Wed Oct 12, 2011 | Laugh uproariously | Gary Cee |
| SUPERUSER | Sun Apr 26, 2020 | One with special I.T. privileges | Royce Ferguson |
| SWINDLED | Tue May 12, 2015 | Hornswoggled | Paul Hunsberger |
| TELLMAMA | Wed Sep 2, 2015 | 1968 Etta James album | Kevin Christian and Bradley Wilber |
| THAE | Tue Oct 21, 2003 | Those, to Robert Burns | John Underwood |
| THESEVENPERCENTSOLUTION | Sun Nov 14, 2004 | Best-selling 1974 detective novel | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| TIEDTO | Wed Dec 2, 2020 | Connected with | Will Nediger |
| TIPPING | Thu May 23, 2019 | *Malcolm Gladwell best seller, with "The" | Alex Vratsanos |
| TOAHALT | Sun Oct 23, 2011 | How some cars screech | Joe DiPietro |
| TWEEDCOAT | Sat Sep 8, 2001 | Professorial attire, perhaps | Jim Page |