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 50,408 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFARM | Wed Jul 6, 2016 | What Old MacDonald had | David Woolf |
| ASIANTIGER | Sat Jul 26, 2025 | Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist | Adam Levav |
| BLOCKADERUNNING | Fri Sep 2, 2005 | Shipping charges? | Sherry O. Blackard |
| BOARDANDLODGING | Sat Oct 7, 2000 | What country inns provide | Chuck Menning |
| BRERS | Sat Dec 11, 2010 | Backwoods sibs | Paula Gamache |
| BROCHETTE | Sat Jul 18, 1998 | Stick in the oven? | Rich Norris |
| BURNSIAN | Thu Feb 3, 2011 | Like the poem "Tam o' Shanter" | Matt Ginsberg |
| CHECKINGACCOUNT | Sat May 12, 2001 | You may draw on it | Michael Shteyman |
| CIVICLEADER | Sat Dec 18, 2004 | One for whom a street may be named | Dana Motley |
| CONFISCATE | Thu Aug 11, 2016 | [See circled letters] | Timothy Polin |
| CRIMESPREES | Tue Nov 1, 2016 | Events in Bonnie and Clyde's biography | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| EASTTIMOR | Wed Feb 21, 2024 | Nation that shares an island with part of Indonesia [Indonesian] | Jeffrey Martinovic |
| EASYTARGETS | Tue Jul 26, 2022 | Ideal marks for scammers | Lillian Simpson |
| ENDOFDECEMBER | Sun Jul 12, 2009 | *Week after Christmas | Alan Arbesfeld |
| EXTOLLED | Sat Nov 22, 1997 | Glorified | Matt Gaffney |
| FLEXILE | Sun Feb 5, 1995 | Tractable | Frank A. Longo |
| GETOFFTRACK | Mon Aug 22, 2011 | Go astray | Milo Beckman |
| GONEBALLISTIC | Mon Jan 13, 2014 | Flown into a rage | Lynn Lempel |
| HULLABALLOO | Sat Apr 15, 2006 | Stink | Bob Peoples |
| INEXISTENT | Fri Dec 5, 1997 | Only hypothetical | Craig Kasper and Dave Tuller |
| INSOUCIANT | Sat Jul 29, 2006 | Carefree | Bob Klahn |
| JUNC | Sun Sep 6, 1998 | Where roads meet: Abbr. | Rich Norris |
| LEMONSQUEEZERS | Sun May 24, 2015 | Ones pressed into service in the kitchen? [Egypt; 4] | Kevin G. Der |
| LOOKEDUPTO | Sat Feb 11, 1995 | Admired | Randolph Ross |
| MEGALITHIC | Sat Jul 4, 2015 | Like Stonehenge | Sam Ezersky |
| MILOOSHEA | Mon Jan 8, 2018 | "Ulysses" star, 1967 | Sam Ezersky |
| MINTCOINSET | Sat Sep 10, 2022 | Case made for significant change? | Kameron Austin Collins |
| MUFFLES | Thu Apr 30, 2015 | Quiets | Herre Schouwerwou |
| OFARC | Mon Aug 29, 2005 | France's Joan ___ | Sarah Keller |
| OVERSTOCKS | Sun Feb 18, 2024 | Orders more of than necessary | Sid Sivakumar |
| POMERANIAN | Fri Nov 18, 2022 | Toy from a place that no longer exists | Robyn Weintraub |
| PRICEPOINT | Sun Jul 14, 2013 | Spot on a demand curve | Daniel A. Finan |
| ROLLERBAG | Sat Jan 2, 2021 | It has wheels and flies | Joe Deeney |
| SAUNDERS | Thu Apr 7, 1994 | Lori of "Petticoat Junction" | Fred Piscop |
| SOULFULLY | Sun Dec 17, 2023 | How one might sing an R&B ballad | Jeremy Newton |
| STRAITLACED | Fri Apr 14, 2017 | Very conservative | Andrew Kingsley |
| TETHS | Sun Sep 15, 1996 | They come before yodhs | A. K. Justin |
| TVCREW | Thu May 12, 2016 | Camera operators, gaffers, etc. | James Tuttle |
| WEAKKNEED | Sat Aug 1, 2009 | Cowardly | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| WEARISOME | Sat Feb 28, 2015 | Yawn-inducing | Barry C. Silk |