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 50,581 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGGRESSORNATION | Fri Jun 24, 2016 | Hostile territory? | Patrick Berry |
| BEEROCLOCK | Fri Jul 10, 2015 | When it's acceptable to start downing brews | Barry C. Silk |
| BIGBREASTED | Fri Feb 20, 2015 | Buxom | David Woolf |
| BUGGIES | Sun Mar 7, 1999 | Prams | Randolph Ross |
| CANNONBALLS | Sun Feb 19, 1995 | Some dives | Alfio Micci |
| CLIMBSTHELADDER | Sun Oct 9, 2022 | Advances through corporate ranks ... and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does | Jessie Trudeau and Ross Trudeau |
| COWPASTURE | Thu Apr 3, 2008 | Place for grazing | Kevin G. Der |
| DEERSTALKERCAP | Sat Dec 28, 2024 | Iconic accessory worn by 1-Down | Sam Berriman |
| FURIKAKE | Sun Nov 14, 2021 | Japanese condiment sprinkled on rice | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| GARYGYGAX | Thu Apr 2, 2009 | Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| GOLDPIANO | Thu Feb 24, 2011 | Elvis instrument now in the Country Music Hall of Fame | Gary Cee |
| HALLELUJAHCHORUS | Sun Dec 25, 2005 | Handel bars? | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| INDITED | Fri Aug 26, 2011 | Put down in writing | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| KARLOFF | Thu May 2, 2019 | Co-star of 28-Across | Julie Bérubé |
| KNOCKEDOVERABANK | Sun Apr 9, 1995 | In a final desperate move the klutz _____ | Cathy Millhauser |
| LAKEGEORGE | Wed May 27, 1998 | French and Indian War battle site | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| MATCHALATTE | Fri Feb 24, 2023 | Green cappuccino alternative | Margaret Seikel and Sophia Maymudes |
| OUTEREDGES | Tue Jan 5, 2010 | *Rims | C. W. Stewart |
| PESKIER | Sat Nov 20, 2021 | More vexing | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| PRATERS | Thu Mar 8, 2001 | They talk too much | Peter Gordon |
| PRETELL | Sun Jan 16, 1994 | Forecast | Ernst Theimer |
| PRODIGY | Sun Dec 24, 2000 | One with a gift | Bill Zais |
| REDOUBT | Mon Dec 1, 2014 | Fortress | John Guzzetta |
| RESISTANCE | Thu Aug 21, 1997 | Freedom fighters | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SCENEXIV | Fri Mar 23, 2018 | Part of Act 4 of "Antony and Cleopatra" in which Antony attempts suicide | Erik Agard |
| SCHUSSED | Fri Dec 7, 2012 | Went downhill fast | Peter Wentz |
| SEAFISH | Wed Dec 12, 2018 | Haddock or hake | David J. Kahn |
| SECTIONONE | Fri Jan 7, 2011 | Prime seating area at sporting events, maybe | Joe DiPietro |
| SEMINARS | Thu Mar 23, 1995 | University sessions | Wayne Robert Williams |
| SERLING | Wed Sep 27, 2006 | "The Twilight Zone" host | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SMOKIN | Fri Oct 1, 2010 | With 62-Down, 40-Across loser's nickname | David J. Kahn |
| SPACESATELLITES | Fri May 19, 2006 | Telecommunications needs | Patrick Berry |
| STARTBACK | Fri Nov 23, 2012 | Call an end to a hike | Patrick Berry |
| STATESENATOR | Fri Jul 26, 2002 | Capitol worker | Manny Nosowsky |
| TASTEOK | Sat Aug 26, 2017 | "How's the food?" | Peter Wentz |
| TIMEOFTHESEASON | Thu Dec 16, 2004 | 1969 #3 hit and a hint to this puzzle's theme | Mike Torch |
| TOMRIDGE | Sun Jul 10, 2016 | First secretary of homeland security | Patrick Berry |
| TONECOLOR | Sat Jul 16, 2022 | Brightness or darkness, in musical terms | Kameron Austin Collins |
| WOODCARVER | Sun Jan 9, 2000 | Grant & George Washington's favorite artisan? | Charles M. Deber |
| ZEBRACROSSINGS | Mon Oct 29, 2018 | Areas for pedestrians whose name includes a black-and-white animal | Peter Gordon |