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 50,812 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMYBRATS | Fri Nov 23, 2012 | Kids whose parents fight? | Patrick Berry |
| ARTICLEVII | Sun May 6, 2012 | End of the main part of the Constitution | Alex Vratsanos |
| BARADMISSION | Sun Sep 8, 2024 | Age 21 | Meghan Morris |
| BEETREE | Sun Oct 13, 1996 | Hive location | W. R. Williams |
| CADENZAS | Mon Dec 22, 2003 | Aria flourishes | Joy C. Frank |
| CARRIERPIGEON | Thu Nov 30, 2017 | Early form of airmail? | Trenton Charlson |
| COMPOSTS | Sat Apr 29, 2000 | Handles trash ecologically | Patrick D. Berry |
| CSECTION | Tue Aug 31, 2021 | Delivery option | Eric Bornstein |
| DODGIER | Sat Jan 30, 2010 | Relatively hard to pin down | Mark Diehl |
| EGOTRIPPERS | Sat Jan 6, 2007 | Narcissists | Robert H. Wolfe |
| EXPANDEDROLE | Mon Mar 21, 2022 | Greater responsibility, often as part of a promotion | John Ewbank and Jeff Chen |
| FEEDING | Thu Jun 28, 2012 | When a zookeeper makes the rounds with a bucket | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FLAPPERS | Fri Apr 1, 1994 | Charleston ladies | Stanley Newman |
| FLOORROUTINE | Tue Apr 2, 2024 | Gymnastics sequence involving tumbling | Billy Bratton |
| GREENACRES | Thu Jun 13, 2002 | Popular 1960's sitcom | David J. Kahn |
| HANDYDANDY | Tue Nov 3, 2020 | *Very convenient ... or, when read in six parts, a hint to the answers to the starred clues | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| KEPTTRACK | Sat Apr 15, 1995 | Stayed on top (of) | Bob Klahn |
| KOPEKS | Sat Jun 16, 2012 | Some change in Russia | Barry C. Silk |
| MARLEYSGHOST | Thu Oct 27, 2011 | Fictional character who says "I wear the chain I forged in life" | Kurt Mueller |
| MENDELEEV | Thu Nov 10, 2022 | Dmitri ___, formulator of the periodic law | Dan Caprera |
| MESSINAS | Tue Sep 13, 1994 | Singer Jim and others | Gregory E. Paul |
| MORALMAJORITY | Sun Mar 15, 1998 | Soprano Gluck kidnapped by a fundamentalist group? | Frank Longo |
| NONPOLAR | Sat May 4, 1996 | Temperate, e.g. | B. Klahn |
| NOTONMYWATCH | Tue Feb 25, 2025 | "I forbid this" ... or what a smart device wearer might claim regarding the ends of 20-, 30-, 40- and 48-Across? | Greg Snitkin |
| POWERTOOLS | Fri Feb 17, 2012 | Drills, e.g. | Ian Livengood |
| REALMCCOY | Wed Jul 9, 2008 | *It's no fake | Tim Wescott |
| RIGHTOH | Sat Jan 26, 2013 | "Indeed, mate" | Raymond C. Young |
| ROADSALT | Mon May 30, 2016 | Application to highways before a winter storm | David Woolf |
| SEATCOVERS | Tue Jan 2, 2007 | Upholstery protectors | Sarah Keller |
| SHUTOFF | Sun May 2, 1999 | Plumbing control | Jim Page |
| SOLICITS | Sat Sep 9, 2006 | Goes after | Bob Klahn |
| SOTHATHAPPENED | Fri Jul 26, 2013 | "Yeah ... anyway" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SQUATTERSRIGHTS | Fri Jan 15, 2021 | Topic in property law, colloquially | Josh Knapp |
| SUGGESTS | Thu May 15, 2008 | Throws out | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TRANQUILITY | Sun Jul 21, 2019 | Name of a sea first visited in 1969 | Jason Mueller and Jeff Chen |
| TWOTIMES | Thu Sep 1, 2022 | Cheats on | John Wrenholt |
| VEGOUT | Sun Mar 1, 2015 | Chillax | Finn Vigeland |
| VOYAGER | Tue Nov 8, 2011 | First spacecraft to reach Uranus and Neptune | Scott Atkinson |
| WAITONESEC | Sat Dec 29, 2012 | "I'll be right with you" | Joe Krozel |
| WIGGILY | Wed Jan 25, 2006 | *Gentleman rabbit of children's lit | John Farmer |