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 50,871 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTOFWAR | Sat Nov 12, 2011 | Bombing, e.g. | Barry C. Silk |
| ARITHMETIC | Sat Jul 3, 2004 | Putting two and two together, say | Eric Berlin |
| BOUNCESBACK | Sun Feb 20, 2022 | Echoes | Victor Barocas |
| BRIDESTOBE | Thu Aug 10, 2023 | Ones who've answered "Yes!" | Natan Last and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| BROADWAYCLOSING | Sun Jul 12, 2009 | *Lights out in New York City | Alan Arbesfeld |
| CHAPALA | Sun Jun 6, 2010 | Mexico's largest lake | Daniel A. Finan |
| CONFIT | Sun Aug 16, 2020 | Duck dish | Francis Heaney |
| CONSTANCY | Tue Apr 3, 2012 | Faithfulness | Paula Gamache |
| CRABCLAW | Sat Apr 29, 2023 | Target for a certain mallet | David Steinberg |
| ECOSAVVY | Thu Jun 3, 2021 | Quite green | Kyra Wilson and Sophia Maymudes |
| EDMS | Sat Jan 28, 2006 | Teachers' degs. | Dana Motley |
| EDMUNDI | Sun Jun 21, 2015 | English monarch called "the Magnificent" | Timothy Polin |
| EXERCISEREGIMEN | Tue Aug 19, 2003 | Way to fitness | Karen M. Tracey |
| FOUNDMISSING | Mon Mar 11, 2019 | Like a stolen object, when it's not where it's supposed to be | Trent Evans |
| GETSRIDOF | Fri Jul 7, 2017 | Deep-sixes | Andy Kravis |
| GRANDMAMOSES | Thu Mar 23, 2000 | American rural life painter | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| HEYNINETEEN | Sat Apr 7, 2001 | Steely Dan hit, 1980 | Trip Payne |
| INEVIDENCE | Sat Oct 24, 2020 | Noticeable | Byron Walden |
| INVICTUS | Sat Sep 17, 1994 | Poem that ends "I am the captain of my soul" | Rich Norris |
| ITELL | Thu Apr 2, 2015 | "___ you what ..." | Joe Krozel and Timothy Polin |
| KOMEN | Wed Dec 28, 2022 | Susan G. ___ (breast cancer advocacy organization) | Josh Goodman |
| LOCUMS | Sun Feb 17, 2002 | Substitute doctors, in Britain | Joe DiPietro |
| MESSYBUN | Fri Feb 16, 2024 | Casually chic updo | Colin Adams |
| MOTORCITY | Sun Jun 2, 2019 | Center of the U.S. auto industry | Erik Agard |
| NONUNION | Thu Sep 15, 2011 | Lacking bargaining power, maybe | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| NOWANDTHEN | Mon May 9, 1994 | Occasionally | Sidney L. Robbins |
| PAMPLONA | Fri Oct 24, 2014 | Site of an annual encierro | Patrick Blindauer |
| READYANDWILLING | Tue Jan 23, 2001 | Game | Nancy Salomon |
| RUSSETY | Sun Nov 2, 2003 | Reddish-brown | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SALO | Sun Feb 11, 2007 | Eastern European pork fat dish | Mark Feldman |
| SALTCOD | Sun Dec 10, 2017 | Cured and dried fish | Erik Agard and Laura Braunstein |
| SEAHARES | Thu Jul 7, 2016 | Mollusks once known as lepus marinus | Joel Elkins and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| SILKBOXERS | Sat Oct 3, 2020 | Some pricey undergarments | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| STRUMMED | Sun Feb 16, 2014 | Pulled strings, maybe? | Yaakov Bendavid |
| THISISJEOPARDY | Sun Jun 9, 2024 | Classic game show intro | Zachary Schiff |
| UPANDABOUT | Mon May 9, 1994 | No longer bedridden | Sidney L. Robbins |
| WARAT | Tue Oct 2, 2012 | "The ___ Home," 1996 Emilio Estevez film | Ethan Cooper |
| WASTRELS | Thu May 23, 1996 | Spendthrifts | M. E. Brindamour |
| YAPPY | Sat Dec 21, 2024 | Like a noisy toy | Barbara Lin and Lewis Rothlein |
| ZIKAVIRUS | Sat Feb 23, 2019 | Mosquito-borne danger in 2016 news | Sam Ezersky |