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 50,908 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCESSLOG | Sun Jan 25, 2026 | Site-seeing list? | Mark MacLachlan |
| BASESEVEN | Fri Jan 19, 2001 | In which 49 is 100 | Joe DiPietro |
| BROCHE | Sun Apr 3, 2022 | À la ___ (spit-roasted) | Byron Walden |
| CARROTTOPS | Wed Jan 24, 2001 | Redheads | David Ainslie Macleod |
| CHAIRCOVER | Sat Jan 29, 2011 | Upscale wedding reception amenity | Ned White |
| COLLECTED | Sun Sep 7, 1997 | Unruffled | Randolph Ross |
| DIVULGER | Sat May 7, 1994 | Stool pigeon | Bryant White |
| DOITAGAIN | Fri Jan 18, 2008 | Steely Dan hit of 1972 | Trip Payne |
| DONEONTIME | Sun May 8, 2005 | Punctual [Dodge] | Jim Page |
| DUSTPANS | Tue Feb 27, 2001 | Sweepers' utensils | M. Preston Sherwood |
| FELIXTHECAT | Thu Nov 26, 2009 | Introduction of 1927 | Paula Gamache |
| GARRETT | Sun Jul 4, 2010 | Actor/comic Brad | Patrick Blindauer and Tony Orbach |
| GOBIGORGOHOME | Fri Feb 21, 2014 | Catchphrase that encourages extravagance | Patrick Berry |
| GROVESOFACADEME | Sat Apr 13, 2013 | Ivory tower setting | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GULLETS | Sat Jun 29, 2013 | Throats | Joe Krozel |
| HOLERS | Thu Oct 3, 2002 | Nine-___ (some golf courses) | Susan Harrington Smith |
| INFIELDRULE | Thu Feb 7, 2008 | *Umpire's invocation after a pop-up, perhaps | Kenneth J. Berniker |
| JUSTMISS | Sat Jul 3, 2004 | Come this close | Eric Berlin |
| KNEWTOOMUCH | Mon Jun 26, 2006 | "The Man Who " (1956) | Randy Sowell |
| LOGSHIP | Sat Jan 11, 2014 | Sawmill supplier | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| MACCHIATOS | Wed Jun 9, 2021 | Espressos "stained" with a bit of milk | Byron Walden |
| MACHUPICCHU | Thu May 16, 2019 | South American landmark whose name means "old peak" | Jeff Chen |
| MATURER | Fri Apr 7, 2006 | Less green | Adam Cohen |
| MTSNOW | Sat Jun 11, 2011 | Vt. ski resort | Gary Cee |
| NOSECOUNT | Wed Aug 22, 2018 | Population determination | John Lampkin |
| NOSWIMMING | Thu Sep 15, 2022 | What a red flag at a beach may signify | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| PITCHTO | Sat Dec 31, 2005 | Target | Robert H. Wolfe |
| POLAROIDPICTURE | Tue Mar 4, 2025 | It develops in front of your eyes | Hanh Huynh |
| QUARTERPIPE | Thu Jan 12, 2012 | Skateboarding ramp | Gareth Bain |
| RADIOSTAR | Mon Aug 19, 2024 | Whom "video killed," in a 1979 hit | Kenneth Cortes |
| REDRAG | Sun Oct 30, 2005 | Provocation, metaphorically | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| SLASHPINE | Fri Jul 11, 1997 | Turpentine source | Bob Klahn |
| SLAVISH | Fri Mar 13, 2009 | Blindly imitative | Joon Pahk |
| SONNETIZE | Tue Sep 11, 2012 | Write Shakespearean poetry | Kenneth Leeser |
| SPIGOTS | Thu Jan 5, 1995 | Taps | Harvey Estes |
| STEPFORD | Tue May 14, 1996 | Ira Levin's "The___Wives" | G. E. Paul |
| TONGUELASHING | Fri Apr 22, 1994 | Dressing-down | A.J. Santora |
| TRYITONTHEDOG | Tue Dec 27, 1994 | Get Marmaduke's reaction? | Ernie Furtado |
| UNLUCKYBREAK | Thu Dec 3, 2020 | Bad fortune ... as suggested by 19-, 30- and 47-Across? | Jake Halperin |
| WILLYA | Sun Nov 15, 2009 | "Pretty please?" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |