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 50,614 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALWAY | Sun Jan 16, 2005 | E'er | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| AMBUSHPREDATORS | Sat Jun 6, 2020 | Leopards and anacondas, e.g. | Doug Peterson |
| ARABELLA | Tue Mar 2, 2010 | Title heroine of a Strauss opera | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ASTRUT | Sun Aug 10, 2003 | Walking like a peacock | Cathy Millhauser |
| BANDOFGOLD | Tue Nov 20, 2012 | 1970 Freda Payne hit | Allan E. Parrish |
| BETTHEFARM | Thu Oct 19, 2023 | Risk it all | Colin Ernst |
| BIRDHOUSES | Fri Jun 3, 2022 | Buildings with many wings | Robyn Weintraub |
| CLUESIN | Wed Feb 7, 2001 | Makes aware | Kent Lorentzen |
| DANDIES | Sat Dec 10, 2011 | Popinjays | Corey Rubin |
| DUSTYSPRINGFIELD | Fri Jul 27, 2007 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known as the White Lady of Soul | John R. Conrad |
| EASYFORYOUTOSAY | Fri Apr 27, 2012 | "Yeah, right!" | Patrick Berry |
| FIXINGS | Sat Aug 19, 2006 | Necessary ingredients | Bob Peoples |
| FLUNGAT | Sun Sep 28, 1997 | Threw toward | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FORALLMANKIND | Tue Jul 21, 2009 | See 45-Across | Donna S. Levin |
| GLOAMING | Sun Apr 5, 2015 | Twilight, poetically | Tom McCoy |
| HADAHANDIN | Fri Dec 16, 2016 | Was involved with | Martin Ashwood-Smith and George Barany |
| HARDSET | Sun Oct 14, 2018 | Rigid | Ross Trudeau |
| HERAS | Sun May 21, 2000 | ___ Gallery of Immortals (Greek pantheon) | Matt Gaffney |
| HOCKEYTEAM | Sun Jul 18, 1999 | The Jets or the Sharks | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| JOYRIDING | Thu Jun 17, 2010 | Pastime for a car thief, perhaps | Corey Rubin |
| KARST | Fri Jun 6, 2014 | Land formation known for its caves | Kameron Austin Collins |
| LAGUNITAS | Thu Jan 8, 2026 | Heineken subsidiary whose name means "small bodies of water" | Mallory Montgomery and Zhou Zhang |
| LOSETHETHREAD | Wed Jun 13, 2018 | Forget one's place in a conversation | Michael Hawkins |
| MARIJUANA | Fri Nov 4, 2016 | Pot | David Steinberg |
| MOOSETRACKS | Tue Dec 3, 2024 | Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups and fudge | Henry Lin-David |
| MORKANDMINDY | Tue Aug 5, 2003 | 1970's-80's TV twosome | D. J. DeChristopher |
| NASHVILLE | Tue Mar 29, 2022 | The country music industry | Jamey Smith |
| PEDAGOG | Sun Aug 3, 2008 | Teacher: Var. | Peter A. Collins and Joe Krozel |
| PICKIEST | Wed Jul 18, 2007 | Most finicky | Tibor Derencsenyi |
| PLAUDITS | Thu May 3, 2018 | Praise | Emily Carroll |
| ROTIFER | Sat Sep 24, 2005 | Microscopic animal that swims with whirling cilia | Byron Walden |
| RUNUPATAB | Thu Jan 19, 2023 | Accumulate charges ... or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle | Daniel Bodily |
| STATEOFMIND | Sat Dec 2, 2006 | Attitude | Bob Klahn |
| STEVEYOUNG | Tue Jun 8, 2021 | QB with the most touchdown passes in a single Super Bowl (six) | Christopher Adams |
| THERISKISTOOHIGH | Sun Oct 14, 2018 | "We can't play that game - I can't reach it on our shelf!" | Ross Trudeau |
| TOUCHEDON | Thu Jan 7, 2016 | Mentioned | Andrew J. Ries |
| WHOPPERJR | Wed Nov 18, 2020 | Burger King offering | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |
| WREAKED | Sun Feb 23, 2014 | Effected, in a bad way | A Namesake of 119-Across |
| YBOR | Wed Aug 25, 2010 | ___ City (Tampa neighborhood) | Clive Probert |
| YOUBLOCKHEAD | Thu Jun 24, 2021 | Lucy van Pelt's frequent outburst to Charlie Brown ... or how to fill some squares in this puzzle? | Danny Lawson |