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 50,371 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLYN | Tue Jun 29, 1999 | Comic Joslyn of "The Eve Arden Show" | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| ATNOCOST | Wed Oct 29, 1997 | Free | Kelly Clark |
| BADTOTHEBONE | Sat Aug 4, 2018 | With 1-Down, literally, downright dastardly | Sam Trabucco |
| BOUQUET | Thu Oct 25, 2001 | A ___ of pheasants | John Scott Marrone |
| CHICANERY | Tue Feb 4, 2020 | Deceitful doings | Queena Mewers and Alex Eaton-Salners |
| CHOOSER | Sun Aug 5, 2007 | Voter, e.g. | Caroline Leong |
| CONCEIVE | Sun Apr 15, 2001 | Imagine | Richard Silvestri |
| DESTRUCT | Mon Aug 8, 1994 | Ruin | Sidney L. Robbins |
| DETROITMICHIGAN | Fri Jul 23, 2004 | Home of America's first automatic traffic light, ca. 1920 | David Levinson Wilk |
| DOURLY | Tue Jan 17, 2006 | In a gloomy way | Nancy Salomon |
| ENTERPRISEZONES | Tue Sep 20, 2011 | Areas targeted for economic revitalization | Daniel Raymon |
| FARAWAYPLACES | Tue Mar 30, 1999 | 1949 Bing Crosby hit | Randy Sowell |
| FATHERGOOSE | Thu Jun 12, 1997 | 1964 Cary Grant comedy-romance | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| FINISHINGTOUCH | Tue May 7, 2019 | Icing on the cake ... or a hint to 20-, 24-, 35- and 43-Across | Ross Trudeau |
| FRENCHCOLONY | Thu Jan 4, 2007 | Haiti, once | Alan Olschwang |
| FRENCHPRESS | Sun Nov 3, 2024 | Device with a plunger | Sid Sivakumar |
| GETBORED | Sat Sep 3, 2016 | Start to drift, say | Damon Gulczynski |
| GLOBULIN | Fri Sep 30, 2016 | Major blood protein | James Mulhern |
| GUESTHOUSING | Wed Feb 6, 2002 | Offer for campus visitors | Joe DiPietro |
| HOCHIMINH | Fri Mar 12, 2021 | Nom de guerre roughly translating to "bringer of light" | Peter Wentz |
| HORSESHOEFALLS | Thu Apr 13, 2000 | Tourist site at Goat Island | Matt Gaffney |
| ISEEDEADPEOPLE | Wed Apr 10, 2013 | ... Haley Joel Osment | Julian Lim |
| JEANNETTERANKIN | Fri Sep 4, 2020 | Congresswoman who said "I want to be remembered as the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote" | Brian Thomas |
| MICKEYS | Sun Jul 18, 1999 | They'll knock you out | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| MUSHROOM | Thu Aug 22, 2019 | Grow quickly | Emily Carroll |
| MYTHBUSTER | Sat Apr 14, 2018 | Conductor of science experiments on TV | Sam Ezersky |
| NEUTRALLANGUAGE | Mon Mar 6, 2006 | Esperanto, for some | Jack McInturff |
| NOCTURNES | Sun May 3, 1998 | Chopin works | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| OFWAR | Sat Mar 9, 2024 | Words after god or man | John Guzzetta |
| OXIDIC | Thu Dec 17, 1998 | Like rust | David J. Kahn |
| PERVADED | Sat Sep 17, 1994 | Saturated | Rich Norris |
| POWERGRAB | Sat Jan 2, 2016 | Coup | David Phillips |
| PRENATALLY | Sat Jul 27, 1996 | Before birth | F. Longo |
| RAINDANCES | Sat Mar 4, 2000 | Dry measures? | Rich Norris |
| SOFTWORDS | Sun Jun 18, 1995 | "There, there," e.g. | Rich Norris |
| SPITTOONS | Mon Dec 22, 2008 | Receptacles for tobacco chewers | Lynn Lempel |
| SUBTRACTS | Sat Jun 1, 2024 | Takes off | Eric Warren |
| SURESIGN | Thu Jun 15, 2006 | Unambiguous indication | Adam Cohen |
| TUZIGOOT | Sat Jul 31, 2010 | National monument near Flagstaff | Barry C. Silk |
| WATCHTV | Thu Dec 27, 2018 | View remotely? | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |