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 50,472 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APCOURSE | Wed Jun 19, 2019 | Class for college-bound kids, maybe | Sam Trabucco |
| APPRENTICESHIPS | Fri Jun 21, 2002 | Training times | Bob Peoples |
| BOOMERANGEFFECT | Thu Oct 24, 2013 | Unwelcome reversal ... or a title for this puzzle? | Peter A. Collins |
| BORDERLINECASES | Fri Aug 8, 1997 | They're debatable | Martin Ashwood-Smith and Bob Klahn |
| CATCHFORTYWINKS | Wed Mar 29, 1995 | What an insomniac would like to do, minimally | Manny Nosowsky |
| CORONACIGAR | Tue Feb 16, 2021 | Long, straight-sided smoke | Johanna Fenimore |
| CRUNCHBERRY | Mon May 23, 1994 | Cereal "fruit" | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| DIAMONDNECKLACE | Sun Oct 16, 2011 | See shaded letters intersected by this answer | Joel Fagliano |
| DIGITALYEARBOOKS | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | Modern school keepsakes | Francis Heaney |
| DILLPICKLE | Mon Jun 23, 2025 | Can it! | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| DOESNTCONCERNME | Tue Mar 6, 2012 | "So what?!" | Wesley Johnson |
| DREYFUSS | Fri Jan 18, 2008 | "Moon Over Parador" star, 1988 | Trip Payne |
| DRILLER | Thu Aug 5, 2010 | Dentist, at times | Gary J. Whitehead |
| ELECTSTO | Fri May 16, 1997 | Makes a choice | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| FIRMBELIEF | Tue Jun 17, 2025 | Something one probably won't change one's mind on | Tarun Krishnamurthy |
| FULFILLAREQUEST | Thu Jan 22, 1998 | ___ | Patrick Jordan |
| FUNHOUSEMIRROR | Wed Sep 4, 2024 | It will change the way you see yourself | Kareem Ayas |
| HALOHALO | Tue Jan 31, 2023 | Crushed-ice dessert with a reduplicative name | Erik Agard |
| HEURISTIC | Sat Oct 27, 2018 | Method of solving | Byron Walden |
| HUXTABLES | Wed Nov 6, 2019 | 1980s-'90s sitcom family | Ross Trudeau |
| IDIED | Sun Jun 19, 1994 | "I wander'd till ___": Arnold | Nancy Scandrett Ross |
| IMAGINATIVENESS | Fri Mar 15, 2013 | What prosaic minds lack | Joe Krozel |
| INCINERATE | Tue Aug 14, 2018 | Burn to a crisp | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| JUDITHHEUMANN | Fri Jan 6, 2023 | Leading disability rights activist in the 2020 documentary "Crip Camp" | Erica Hsiung Wojcik |
| LAUGHINGFALCONS | Sun May 27, 2012 | Snake predators named for their calls | Byron Walden |
| LIDOS | Sun May 22, 2011 | Fashionable beach resorts | Bob Klahn |
| LUNATICFRINGE | Tue Jun 3, 2014 | Extremist group | Susan Gelfand |
| MAKELIGHT | Fri Mar 1, 1996 | Belittle, with "of" | Charles E. Gersch |
| MOOJUICE | Sat Jan 2, 2021 | Milk, slangily | Joe Deeney |
| OLIVEPIT | Sat Dec 12, 2020 | Tapenade discard | Sid Sivakumar and Brooke Husic |
| OPENTOES | Thu Jan 8, 2004 | Some women's shoe features | Michael Shteyman |
| ORTHOPEDIC | Thu Apr 12, 2007 | Like some shoes | Jim Page |
| PETERSOUTATTHEEND | Sun Nov 22, 1998 | He's always asleep by midnight | Nelson Hardy |
| PINKYANDTHEBRAIN | Sun Jul 7, 2024 | Lab mice of 1990s cartoons | David Karp |
| PLANETARY | Wed Feb 13, 2019 | With 36-Down, astronomical rarity ... or a hint to the circled letters | Ross Trudeau |
| POOLCUES | Sat Nov 8, 2008 | Sticks you need to break | Byron Walden |
| PROHIBITS | Fri Mar 4, 2016 | Outlaws | Evans Clinchy |
| SETFIRE | Fri Aug 27, 2004 | Light, with "to" | Manny Nosowsky |
| SIMONPETER | Fri Sep 7, 2001 | First pope | Manny Nosowsky |
| SOUTHVIETNAMESE | Tue Apr 28, 1998 | From Ho Chi Minh City | Manny Nosowsky |