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 50,417 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFROPUNK | Fri Mar 23, 2018 | Alternative music subgenre | Erik Agard |
| AFTERNOON | Sat Jan 21, 2006 | It has many soap slots | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BALDWINS | Sat Jan 28, 2006 | Some pianos | Dana Motley |
| BEINTHEWAY | Tue Jun 29, 2021 | Interfere, literally | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BIGGEST | Sun Sep 30, 2012 | Number-one | Elayne Cantor and Victor Fleming |
| CHERRYGARCIA | Tue Apr 15, 2025 | Ben & Jerry's flavor honoring a jam band legend | Per Bykodorov |
| CITROUS | Fri Mar 24, 1995 | Like some juices | Christopher Hurt |
| CLEANSWEEP | Fri Apr 17, 2015 | Rout | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| CRABLEG | Sun Dec 16, 2018 | Food item cracked open before eating | Sam Ezersky |
| DERISION | Thu Oct 31, 2019 | Mockery | Ezra Brauner and Jeff Chen |
| DESTINATIONMOON | Wed Oct 25, 1995 | 1950's science fiction film | Larry Nargi |
| DISCOUNTED | Tue Oct 28, 2014 | Not full-price | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| DIVERGED | Tue Feb 6, 1996 | Forked off | Randy Sowell |
| FUHRMAN | Sun Aug 17, 1997 | 1995 cop on the spot | Cathy Millhauser |
| GREENBAYWISCONSIN | Sun Mar 17, 1996 | Site of Lambeau Field | Peter O'Gordon |
| HELLONURSE | Sat Jul 21, 2012 | Old vaudevillian catcall | Joe DiPietro |
| INDUCTS | Fri May 11, 2018 | Initiates | Sam Ezersky and David Steinberg |
| IRISHTEA | Sun Jul 9, 2023 | McEntee's product | Christina Iverson |
| JAILOR | Tue Jan 14, 2014 | Turnkey | Tim Croce |
| JOHNDONNE | Fri Apr 26, 2019 | Who wrote "I am two fools, I know, / For loving, and for saying so / In whining poetry" | Kyle Dolan |
| LANDART | Fri Jul 28, 2023 | Outdoor installation using earth, rocks, vegetation, etc. | Rafael Musa and Hoang-Kim Vu |
| LATERBRO | Sat Jan 11, 2025 | "Peace, dude!" | Ryan McCarty |
| MAILLIST | Sun Feb 16, 2014 | Spammer enabler | Yaakov Bendavid |
| MAKEMONEY | Thu Jul 6, 2023 | Earn ... or what answering the starred clues will do in each case | Alison Perch |
| MUSSESUP | Sun Feb 3, 2013 | Tousles | Dan Schoenholz |
| NATHANDETROIT | Tue Jul 18, 1995 | "Guys and Dolls" guy | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| NETTING | Wed May 7, 2003 | Bug protection | Alan Arbesfeld |
| OBLADIOBLADA | Wed Nov 5, 2014 | 1968 song from the Beatles' "White Album" | Gareth Bain |
| OHRIO | Sun Apr 14, 1996 | Start of the "flying down" song | Henry Hook |
| PANAMACANAL | Sun Feb 27, 1994 | Opening of 1914 | Bette Sue Cohen |
| PATINE | Wed Oct 4, 2000 | Copper coating: Var. | Adam Cohen |
| PLATFORM | Mon May 5, 1997 | Railroad station area | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| POKERHANDS | Thu Dec 2, 2004 | Gamblers' holdings | Patrick Berry |
| POPPEDAPILL | Thu Oct 12, 2023 | Dosed oneself | John Nagamichi Cho |
| PROPERNOUNS | Fri Jun 29, 2001 | Uncommon things in language | Holden Baker |
| RUNONFUMES | Thu Oct 17, 2024 | Anger over a grammatically incorrect sentence? | August Lee-Kovach |
| SPELLCASTER | Sun Sep 5, 2021 | Charming sort? | Grant Thackray |
| TERAT | Sat Feb 21, 1998 | Monster: Prefix | Richard Hughes |
| THANKER | Thu Apr 27, 2000 | Polite guest | Greg Staples |
| THEDETROITLIONS | Fri Sep 29, 2000 | Team for which George Plimpton once played | Bob Klahn |