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 50,244 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCRUEDINTEREST | Sat Dec 13, 2008 | Payback factor | Frank Longo |
| AHERN | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | Irish P.M. Bertie | Byron Walden |
| ALEXANDRASRAGTIMEBAND | Sun Aug 8, 1999 | Feminine jazz group? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ASQUITH | Fri Jul 19, 2013 | British P.M. when W.W. I began | Patrick Berry |
| BIDPRICES | Sat Aug 11, 2018 | Auction figures | Ryan McCarty |
| BOWKNOTS | Fri Mar 6, 1998 | Double loops | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BOXSOCIAL | Sat Mar 12, 2016 | Old-fashioned affair à la "Oklahoma!" | Josh Knapp |
| CAMPOUT | Mon Dec 1, 2014 | Activity with a tent and s'mores | John Guzzetta |
| COMMIE | Wed Oct 9, 2013 | Cold war foe, slangily | Jason Flinn |
| COPYPASTA | Sat Aug 12, 2023 | Block of text duplicated and reposted online, in internet slang | Rachel Fabi and Christina Iverson |
| DIGHT | Sun Aug 2, 2015 | Adorn, in old literature | Matt Ginsberg |
| DISAPPEAR | Fri Mar 18, 2022 | Dematerialize | Claire Rimkus and Brooke Husic |
| ELCHEAPOS | Thu Jul 12, 2018 | Tightwads | Joe DiPietro |
| EUX | Sun Jul 14, 1996 | Them: Fr. | J. Schmalzbach |
| EXPLODED | Mon Mar 2, 2015 | Went off, as a bomb | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| HARCOURT | Sun May 10, 2009 | Publishing firm bought by Houghton Mifflin | Patrick Berry |
| HOAXER | Sun Jun 16, 2019 | Scam artist | Joel Fagliano |
| HONEYWINE | Sat Aug 26, 2017 | Mead | Peter Wentz |
| INCOMETAXES | Sun Jan 10, 2021 | Things Wyoming and Nevada lack | Alex Bajcz |
| INTEMPERATE | Sat Aug 17, 1996 | Prone to excess | J. T. Paine |
| INTHEMIDDLE | Fri Dec 23, 2016 | Like moderates, politically | Robyn Weintraub |
| LASERDISCS | Sat Oct 18, 2014 | Abandoned storage units? | Evan Birnholz |
| LASPALMAS | Thu Mar 9, 1995 | Canary Islands port | Alex Vaughn |
| MOHAWKRIVER | Thu Oct 4, 2001 | Schenectady is on it | David J. Kahn |
| NONSENSICAL | Wed Sep 27, 2023 | Meaningless | Scott Koenig |
| NULLVALUE | Sun Apr 24, 2022 | Data output denoted by "N/A" | Sam Ezersky |
| POLITICALARENAS | Fri Mar 11, 2011 | Fields in which 6-Acrosses are found | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| RANDOMHOUSEUNABRIDGED | Sun Mar 4, 2007 | Dictionary source for each asterisked clue in this puzzle | Randolph Ross |
| REASONTOBELIEVE | Sat Jul 21, 2018 | What keeps you going when everything seems lost | Jason Flinn |
| REVOLUTION | Mon Jun 18, 2012 | 1968 song with the lyric "We all want to change the world" | Peter A. Collins |
| SCIENT | Wed Mar 16, 1994 | Knowing | Fred Piscop |
| SEWARDS | Sun Aug 27, 1995 | ___ Folly | Martin Schneider |
| SPUNAROUND | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues | Byron Walden |
| STAMINAL | Sun Jul 3, 1994 | Lasting | A.J. Santora |
| TAPERER | Sat Jun 4, 2005 | Candlebearer, in Anglican services | Byron Walden |
| TATTERDEMALIONS | Sat Sep 16, 1995 | Ragamuffins | Bryant White |
| TIEINSALE | Fri Jul 26, 2002 | Two-for-one deal, say | Manny Nosowsky |
| TWENTIETHCENTURY | Sun Dec 2, 2007 | One of the first Buicks to roll off the line? | Seth A. Abel |
| WINDGUST | Fri Jul 9, 2004 | It may raise the roof | David Liben-Nowell |
| WINDOWMANNEQUIN | Thu Jul 9, 1998 | And still another dummy | Norman S. Wizer |