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 50,818 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADIAMONDISFOREVER | Thu Nov 12, 2009 | Classic marketing tagline | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ANTSINESS | Sat Dec 21, 2024 | Reason for foot-tapping | Barbara Lin and Lewis Rothlein |
| BAPTIZE | Sat Aug 23, 2014 | Covert, maybe | Timothy Polin |
| BEERKOOZIE | Fri Nov 12, 2021 | Covering for a cold one | Patrick John Duggan |
| BIGYELLOWTAXI | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | 1975 Joni Mitchell hit | Francis Heaney |
| BOXSTERS | Sat Nov 30, 2019 | Porsche two-seaters | Joe Deeney |
| CALMA | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | Serenity, in Seville | Joel Kaplow |
| CELLULAR | Sat Nov 14, 2009 | Like some building blocks | Joe Krozel |
| COUNTRYHAM | Thu May 25, 2000 | It may be smoked | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DEFATS | Fri Jan 2, 2026 | Skims, as soup stock | Adam Wagner and Rafael Musa |
| DIRECTHIT | Sun Oct 18, 1998 | Bull's-eye | David J. Kahn |
| DOWORSE | Sun Oct 20, 2013 | Go from A to B? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| EVERYBODYGOHOME | Sat Jun 24, 2023 | "Elvis has left the building" | Spencer Leach and Quiara Vasquez |
| EXPECTSTHEWORST | Tue Mar 11, 2008 | Is pessimistic | Eugene W. Sard |
| FRIENDDATE | Sat Apr 20, 2024 | Platonic outing | Garrett Chalfin and Andrew Kingsley |
| INAGARTEN | Tue Dec 6, 2022 | The Food Network's "Barefoot Contessa" | Ross Trudeau and Wyna Liu |
| INANNA | Sat Jul 8, 1995 | Sumerian earth goddess | Randolph Ross |
| ISLOYALTO | Sun Jan 24, 2016 | Stands by | Francis Heaney and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JUILLIARD | Mon May 5, 2008 | Noted performing arts school | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| KUBLAIKHAN | Tue Mar 9, 2021 | Host of Marco Polo | Simon Marotte |
| LESSONED | Sun Aug 11, 1996 | Taught | M. Schneider |
| MARKIE | Sat Feb 9, 2013 | Rap's Biz ___ | Peter Wentz |
| MIDTOWN | Fri Sep 6, 2002 | Centrally located | Manny Nosowsky |
| MOSTEVER | Sun Aug 28, 1994 | Guinness superlative | Randolph Ross |
| MOTIONDETECTOR | Sun Dec 7, 2025 | Sir Isaac Newton? | Kate Jensen |
| MUCKS | Sun Jul 16, 2006 | Goos | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| NAVYVET | Sat Oct 7, 2023 | One who's served admirally? | Alex Vratsanos |
| NIKS | Fri Nov 30, 2007 | Plural suffix with beat or neat | Henry Hook |
| OFFERING | Tue Feb 4, 1997 | Part of a church service | G. R. Ferguson |
| PHILADELPHIA | Thu Dec 14, 2000 | Eagles' home | Peter Gordon |
| RADICALMOVEMENT | Sun Jul 15, 2018 | Compliment to a composer? | Sam Ezersky and Byron Walden |
| RAVENING | Sat Oct 8, 2005 | Wanting it all | Byron Walden |
| SEMANTICS | Sat Mar 27, 2010 | Linguist's concern | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| SEPTUPLET | Sat Oct 16, 2010 | One in a crowded delivery room | Patrick Berry |
| SHIBAINUS | Sun Oct 28, 2018 | Japanese dogs with turned-up tails | Erik Agard |
| SIDNEYPOITIER | Tue Feb 20, 2007 | Actor born Feb. 20, 1927 | Jonathan Gersch |
| STONESTHROW | Sun Oct 12, 2003 | Short distance | David J. Kahn |
| TRAVELEDINSTYLE | Sat May 28, 2022 | Flew private, for instance | Joseph Greenbaum |
| VOLKSWAGENDASHER | Tue Feb 21, 2023 | 1970s auto that shares part of its name with one of Santa's reindeer | Daniel Raymon |
| WHATSITALLABOUT | Wed Jul 17, 1996 | Song question of 1966 | M. Nosowsky |