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 50,639 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMTOTHETEETH | Sun Sep 23, 2012 | *Caries? | Matt Ginsberg |
| BACKBREAKING | Tue Nov 19, 2002 | Arduous | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BOORTZ | Sun Aug 6, 2017 | Libertarian pundit Neal | Patrick Berry |
| BOWLINGSCORE | Wed Apr 11, 2012 | Strike | David Kwong |
| CARPENTERS | Sat Mar 19, 1994 | Three-time Grammy-winning group with "The" | Manny Nosowsky |
| CONJUNCTIVITIS | Tue Dec 28, 1999 | Pinkeye | Randall J. Hartman |
| COULTER | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DISPATCHED | Wed Jun 6, 2001 | No longer mended? | Richard Silvestri |
| DONTTASEMEBRO | Fri Sep 25, 2009 | Memorable catchphrase of 2007 | Robert A. Doll |
| ENDOFF | Sun Nov 1, 2020 | Conclude (with) | Julian Lim |
| FALLSFLAT | Thu Apr 30, 2020 | Doesn't land, as a joke | Caitlin Reid |
| FLUSHES | Wed Oct 21, 1998 | Some good hands | Matt Gaffney |
| FORKOVER | Thu Mar 28, 2013 | Pay | Randolph Ross |
| FRENCHANTILLES | Wed Dec 13, 2017 | Island group near Dominica | Benjamin Kramer |
| GINJOINTS | Fri Oct 24, 2014 | Saloons | Patrick Blindauer |
| GIVESAWIDEBERTH | Sun Sep 15, 1996 | STEERS CLEAR OF | A. K. Justin |
| GOBELIN | Sat Oct 28, 1995 | Fine French tapestry | Chuck Deodene |
| GYMNASTICS | Mon Mar 17, 2014 | Sport that includes the pommel horse and parallel bars | John Lieb |
| HARVARDGRADUATE | Mon Aug 17, 2015 | Crimson alumnus | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| HIGHHEELS | Thu Aug 12, 2021 | Grate pains? | Jake Halperin |
| ITSAMEMARIO | Sat Jan 26, 2019 | Classic video game hero's catchphrase | Grant Thackray |
| KEEPTHECHANGE | Fri Nov 3, 2023 | Tip line? | Robyn Weintraub |
| LADIESONLY | Wed Jul 3, 2019 | "Men not allowed" | Evan Mahnken |
| LOGSOUT | Fri Aug 8, 2014 | Closes a session | Bruce Haight |
| NIGHTBIRD | Sun Aug 25, 2024 | Owl or whippoorwill, e.g. | John Kugelman |
| ONECELLED | Fri Feb 18, 2011 | Like early life | Patrick Berry |
| PIECEWISE | Wed Sep 15, 2021 | Like a mathematical function that changes at different intervals | Sophie Buchmueller and Ross Trudeau |
| PLOTZES | Fri Jun 16, 2023 | Faints from emotion | Natan Last and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| PROKOFIEVSFIRST | Tue Feb 28, 1995 | "Classical" | Nancy S. Ross |
| PUPTENTS | Wed Feb 6, 2002 | Soldiers pitch them | Joe DiPietro |
| REFOCUSES | Sat Feb 14, 2009 | Shakes off new distractions | Joe Krozel |
| REWAX | Wed Feb 13, 2002 | Add luster to | Steven Picus |
| SCHADENFREUDE | Fri Mar 7, 2014 | Guilty pleasure? | Matt Ginsberg |
| SNACKCAKES | Fri Oct 5, 2001 | Ding Dongs, e.g. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SPOUTING | Sat Jul 18, 2009 | Delivering a tirade | Joe Krozel |
| TAGSALONG | Tue Jan 17, 2023 | Goes with someone else [German] | Erika Ettin |
| TRL | Sun Apr 25, 2010 | Bygone daily MTV series, informally | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| UNIONMAN | Thu Feb 24, 2000 | Local personality? | Manny Nosowsky |
| VERSIONS | Sat Jan 31, 2004 | Competing narratives | Byron Walden |
| WESHALLOVERCOME | Mon Jan 16, 1995 | Song sung by M.L.K. and others | Walter Covell |