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 50,385 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTIHEROINE | Fri Sep 23, 2005 | Catwoman, e.g. | Levi Denham |
| ASIANMONEY | Thu Feb 21, 2008 | Yen or yuan | Peter A. Collins |
| AUTOSALE | Sun Oct 20, 1996 | Datum for an economic indicator | R. Ross |
| BOBSEGER | Fri Oct 1, 2004 | Singer with the 1980 #1 album "Against the Wind" | Bob Peoples |
| BOCHCO | Sun Apr 2, 2000 | "N.Y.P.D. Blue" creator | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| BRITCHES | Sun Oct 27, 2024 | Pants, informally | Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen |
| CASSES | Sun Apr 5, 1998 | Show biz's Peggy and Mama | David J. Kahn |
| CORIOLIS | Fri Sep 6, 2019 | Kind of force generated by the earth's rotation | Mark Diehl |
| DECKEDOUT | Tue Jul 1, 2008 | Dressed to the nines | Ken Bessette |
| DECOMMISSION | Wed Jul 13, 1994 | Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| DHOTIS | Wed Sep 8, 1999 | Hindu loincloths | Holden Baker |
| DRAGUP | Mon Sep 13, 2021 | Bring back, as a bad memory | A. Tariq |
| EMPLOYMENT | Mon Jan 14, 2019 | Professional work | Craig Stowe |
| FELICITATION | Sat Oct 3, 1998 | Compliment | Rich Norris |
| FLATSNEAKER | Thu Aug 10, 2006 | Apartment burglar? | Todd McClary |
| FLYPAST | Sat Jan 30, 2010 | Go by quickly | Mark Diehl |
| GODOWNSWINGING | Tue Jun 27, 2017 | Fight to the bitter end ... or a hint to the starts of 20-, 32- and 40-Across | John Guzzetta |
| GUITARIST | Tue Jun 21, 2016 | Band frontman, often | Julie Bérubé |
| IMPUMPED | Sat Jun 8, 2013 | "Can't wait!" | David Quarfoot |
| KEYSLOT | Thu Jun 26, 2008 | Lock opening | David J. Kahn |
| KINGSENGLISH | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | "Proper" speech | Derrick Niederman |
| LEADCOATED | Sat Sep 5, 2015 | Like some copper gutters | Byron Walden |
| MISEDUCATE | Fri Dec 25, 2015 | Teach myths, say | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| NONLEVEL | Sun Jun 6, 1999 | Unbalanced | David J. Kahn |
| OPENANDSHUT | Thu May 3, 2018 | Easily decided | Emily Carroll |
| PHINEAS | Sat Dec 17, 2005 | Anthony Trollope's "___ Finn" | Patrick Berry |
| RAFFLING | Fri Feb 18, 2005 | Disposing of at a church fair, maybe | Harvey Estes |
| RECOILLESS | Sat Jan 6, 2007 | Having very little kick | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SAMPLED | Wed Oct 9, 2013 | Like bits of old music in some new music | Jason Flinn |
| SCENEII | Fri Feb 9, 2018 | When Caesar says "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SHOOTSFROMTHEHIP | Sun Jul 30, 2017 | Takes fashion photos using an unorthodox camera angle? | Isaac Mizrahi and David J. Kahn |
| SHORTSPELL | Mon Nov 10, 2025 | Brief period of time | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| SPUMANTE | Thu Jul 8, 2010 | Asti ___ | John Farmer |
| STYLUSES | Fri Mar 13, 1998 | Needles | Shannon Burns |
| TELEPHOTOLENSES | Sat Jun 28, 2003 | Shooters of small objects | Robert H. Wolfe |
| THREEYEAROLDS | Sat May 3, 2003 | WHO? | John Scott Marrone |
| THYROIDS | Sat Dec 7, 2019 | Energy regulators in the body | Kevin G. Der and Erik Agard |
| TIPTOETHRUTHETULIPS | Sun Nov 10, 1996 | Hit song lyric of 1929 and 1968 | R. Hamel |
| TRAFFICCONES | Mon Sep 29, 1997 | Sights around road repairs | Randy Sowell |
| UPPERBOUND | Sat Nov 22, 2025 | End of a set, in mathematics | Blake Slonecker |