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 50,422 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASHTONS | Tue Jun 7, 2016 | Actor Kutcher and others | Peter A. Collins |
| BLACKHILLS | Sat Feb 10, 2024 | Home to the Crazy Horse Memorial | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| BOXINGDAY | Mon Dec 26, 2016 | Present time in England? ... or a hint to each set of shaded squares | Jules P. Markey |
| CONTINUA | Fri Jul 19, 2002 | Connected sets of points, in math | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CRENEL | Sun Dec 2, 2018 | Opening in a battlement | Paul Coulter |
| DAGUERREOTYPE | Sun Mar 5, 2017 | Picture displayed on a [circled letters] surface | Timothy Polin |
| DEGREELESS | Sat Mar 6, 1999 | Like a dropout | Fred Piscop |
| DISLIKED | Sun May 26, 2024 | Gave a thumbs-down | John Kugelman |
| ENUNCIATION | Thu Jul 5, 2018 | Clear speaking | Randolph Ross |
| EQUIPPING | Wed Mar 22, 2000 | What makes people write LOL? | Richard Silvestri |
| EXACTER | Thu May 7, 1998 | More accurate | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| EXPWY | Tue Mar 13, 2007 | Multilane rte. | Holden Baker |
| HANDBEATEN | Sat Apr 11, 2015 | Like some rugs and egg whites | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| HAYMOW | Tue Mar 25, 1997 | Upper part of a barn | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JUSTAPHASE | Mon Aug 3, 2020 | The terrible twos, e.g. (one hopes!) ... or the start of 17-, 22-, 36- or 45-Across? | Eric Bornstein |
| LEEKRASNER | Fri Jul 22, 2016 | Abstract Expressionist who married Jackson Pollock | Martin Ashwood-Smith and George Barany |
| LEFTSIDE | Wed Nov 23, 2022 | What "port" is on a ship | Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock |
| LITERARYCIRCLES | Mon Dec 11, 2000 | What 20-, 39- and 56-Across might travel in | Myles Callum |
| NBOMB | Fri Jul 30, 2004 | Certain W.M.D. | Manny Nosowsky |
| OBSCENEGESTURES | Sat Jan 11, 2014 | They're usually pixelated on TV | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| POTTAGES | Tue Jan 26, 2021 | Thick soups | Peter Gordon |
| PROVINCETOWN | Wed Aug 31, 1994 | _____ Players (theater group) | Christopher Hurt |
| QUICKIE | Fri Oct 26, 2012 | Rush job | Peter A. Collins |
| REPLAYED | Sun Feb 15, 2004 | Shown again | Derrick Niederman |
| RUNSFORPRESIDENT | Sun Feb 17, 2002 | White House softball team stat? | Joe DiPietro |
| SAYAGAIN | Sat Apr 13, 2024 | "Huh?" | Jess Rucks |
| SCINTILLAE | Fri Feb 12, 1999 | Slightest traces | Joe DiPietro |
| SNIDEREMARK | Sun Dec 15, 2013 | [See above] | Jeff Chen |
| STANDINAROW | Sat Mar 13, 2010 | Line up | Tyler Hinman and Byron Walden |
| STUCKONONESELF | Mon Mar 13, 2006 | Vain | Bernice Gordon |
| SUBWAYS | Fri Aug 1, 1997 | Tubes | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| SWOOPS | Sun Dec 28, 1997 | Attack moves | Matt Gaffney |
| THEHOTLBALTIMORE | Sun Aug 18, 2019 | 1973 play featuring a sign with a burned-out "E" | David Steinberg |
| THERAFLU | Thu Feb 4, 2016 | Cold war weapon? | Jeff Chen |
| TRIOLETS | Sun Aug 13, 2017 | Eight-line poems | Eric Berlin |
| TRUSTABLE | Sat Dec 6, 2003 | Not at all shady | Craig Kasper |
| TRYITON | Sat Nov 17, 2001 | Haberdasher's suggestion | Bob Peoples |
| UNCI | Sun Mar 29, 2009 | Hook-shaped parts of brains | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| UNREQUITED | Fri Sep 17, 2010 | Like some love | Jonah Kagan, Brown University '13 |
| WARMEDAL | Sun Jul 29, 2012 | Veteran's award | Kevin G. Der |