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 50,868 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABIDERS | Tue Feb 3, 2004 | Patient people | Joe Bower and Nancy Salomon |
| AFROPUFF | Tue Oct 1, 2019 | Updo styled with an elastic band | Erik Agard |
| AGLISTEN | Thu Oct 25, 2012 | Shining | Caleb Rasmussen |
| ALMONDCOOKIE | Sun Oct 28, 2018 | Chinese New Year treat | Erik Agard |
| ARTELS | Thu Sep 23, 1999 | Peasants' cooperatives | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BACKISSUES | Tue Sep 21, 2010 | Old New Yorkers, e.g. | Adam G. Perl |
| BAGGERS | Mon Dec 11, 1995 | Checkout line assistants | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BARLINE | Sun Aug 18, 2013 | Divider in a musical score | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BRANGELINA | Thu Mar 12, 2026 | Celebrity supercouple of the 2000s | Joe Marquez |
| COUPLES | Sun Jul 8, 2012 | Combines | Joel Fagliano |
| DEADSPOTS | Fri Dec 10, 2010 | Where cells are of little use | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FORMERSTUDENTS | Mon Dec 25, 2006 | Alumni | Adam G. Perl |
| FRUSTUM | Sun Nov 5, 1995 | Curtailed cone, in geometry | Dean Niles |
| GRUMPS | Fri Mar 24, 1995 | Crotchety folk | Christopher Hurt |
| HOLDINGFIRM | Tue Nov 13, 2007 | Wrestling business? | Fred Piscop |
| HOTNUMBER | Thu Jan 1, 2004 | Sexy person | Richard Silvestri |
| LEQUARTIERLATIN | Sat Apr 18, 2009 | Home of la Sorbonne | Byron Walden |
| MATHEXAMS | Tue Nov 14, 2023 | Things that might have kids going off on a tangent? | Matthew Linzer |
| MISLEARN | Sun May 2, 1999 | Get it wrong | Jim Page |
| NOPQR | Sat Jan 15, 2000 | MS contents? | Matt Gaffney |
| ORDINATE | Sat Sep 29, 2001 | It helps pinpoint a point | Robert H. Wolfe |
| PEASHOOTERS | Wed Jul 15, 2020 | Toys that can be dangerous | Lee Higbie and Jeff Chen |
| PEPI | Sun Dec 21, 1997 | Name of two ancient Egyptian kings | Frances Hansen |
| PLEASEDONTGO | Sun Oct 14, 2018 | "I'm begging you, let's not play that game!" | Ross Trudeau |
| PREPLOT | Fri Jan 21, 2005 | Plan in advance | Frank Longo |
| REGLUED | Fri Feb 27, 2015 | Fixed, as a model airplane | Julian Lim |
| RESTRICTIVE | Fri May 15, 2020 | Opposite of laissez-faire | Christopher Adams |
| RIGORMORTIS | Sat Dec 14, 2013 | What solidifies things in the end? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SAMWALTON | Tue Jul 15, 2014 | Founder of 58-Across | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| SENSEORGAN | Wed May 10, 2017 | Antenna, e.g. | Ned White |
| SNICK | Thu May 1, 2008 | ___ and snee | Jim Leeds |
| SPIKEJONZE | Sat Sep 2, 2006 | "Being John Malkovich" director | Mel Rosen |
| STEREOTYPIC | Sun Apr 26, 2020 | Conventional | Royce Ferguson |
| SWIZZLESTICKS | Tue May 6, 2014 | Cocktail stirrers | Alex Bajcz |
| TAKESABOW | Mon Sep 10, 2018 | Acknowledges applause, maybe | Jacob Stulberg |
| TEENCROWD | Sat Apr 21, 2007 | Mall rats, typically | Byron Walden |
| THEROYALWEDDING | Fri Aug 10, 2012 | Instant-book title of 1981 or 2011 | John Lampkin |
| TONYNOD | Sat Jul 13, 2024 | Broadway honor | Eli Cotham |
| WITHINEARSHOT | Fri Jul 31, 2009 | Relatively close | Mike Nothnagel |
| ZERODOWN | Fri Dec 27, 2019 | Favorable loan term | Sam Trabucco |