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 50,528 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIRBAZOOKA | Sat May 19, 2018 | Toy that's a type of vortex cannon | John Guzzetta |
| AUDITORS | Sat Apr 2, 1994 | Whom tax evaders fear | Manny Nosowsky |
| AUNTMARY | Sun Jan 15, 1995 | Jean Stapleton title role | Ernie Furtado |
| AUTOMOBILETRUNK | Sat Oct 8, 2011 | It's often popped on a shoulder | Tim Croce |
| BLACKSUITS | Tue Nov 4, 2025 | Half of a standard deck of cards | Patrick Hayden |
| BRITISHSATIRIST | Tue Aug 12, 1997 | Swift | Janet R. Bender |
| BUSTLES | Sun Sep 21, 1997 | Stirs | Mike Shenk |
| CAROUSED | Sun May 13, 2001 | Lived it up | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| CIRCLEDANCE | Thu Jul 9, 2020 | Hora, for one | Joe Kidd |
| COURTSUMMONS | Mon May 2, 2005 | Citation | Tyler Hinman |
| CRIBNOTES | Tue May 21, 2024 | Cheat sheets | Zachary David Levy |
| CRUSHEDROCK | Mon Mar 12, 2012 | Trounced Chris in a comedy competition? | Lynn Lempel |
| DALTREY | Sun Aug 2, 2009 | The Who's lead singer | Patrick Berry |
| ENDROADWORK | Mon Jan 14, 2008 | Good sign on a highway | Robert Dillman |
| ERNOS | Sat Dec 8, 2001 | Composer Dohnányi et al. | Rich Norris |
| ESIGNED | Tue Apr 23, 2019 | Digitally endorsed | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| GULLIBLE | Tue Apr 30, 2019 | Fall-for-anything | Erik Agard |
| HARRYS | Tue Mar 28, 2017 | Truman and others | Ryan Milligan |
| IDOISM | Sun Nov 13, 1994 | International language system | Frank A. Longo |
| JUMPER | Fri Jan 6, 2012 | 18-footer, maybe | David Steinberg |
| KINESTHESIA | Tue Apr 8, 2025 | Awareness of body position, scientifically | Barbara Lin |
| NOMISTAKES | Sun Mar 20, 1994 | Solver's dream | Joel Davajan |
| NUCOR | Fri Dec 20, 2019 | Largest steel producer in the U.S. | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| ORGANISMS | Wed Jul 20, 2011 | Creatures | Peter A. Collins |
| PEATIEST | Sun Apr 20, 1997 | Most like sphagnum | Charles M. Deber |
| PILEUS | Sun May 11, 2003 | Mushroom cap | Patrick Berry |
| RAILPASS | Thu May 28, 2015 | Rends + word of regret = commuter's purchase | Jeff Chen |
| ROMANTICPERIOD | Fri Sep 22, 2017 | Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron wrote in it | David Steinberg |
| ROTATIVE | Fri Nov 26, 1999 | Occurring in regular succession | Roger Phillips |
| SASSILY | Thu Nov 12, 2015 | With freshness | David Kwong |
| SHONDARHIMES | Mon Sep 12, 2022 | Creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" ... or, when said aloud, a hint to the starts of 20-, 30 and 45-Across | Michael Lieberman |
| SISSINESS | Sat Jan 6, 1996 | Unmanly quality | A.J. Santora |
| SKINDIVER | Sat Oct 20, 2012 | One might go after pearls | Ned White |
| SOLOALBUM | Sat Mar 9, 2024 | Beyoncé's "Dangerously in Love" or John Lennon's "Imagine" | John Guzzetta |
| SPHEROID | Thu Apr 3, 2003 | Egg yolk, e.g. | Jim Hyres |
| THEWIZARDOFMENLOPARK | Sun Mar 23, 2014 | Nickname for 86-Across | Ian Livengood |
| TOAHAIR | Fri Aug 28, 2009 | Right in every detail | David Quarfoot |
| TUMBLES | Thu Sep 4, 2003 | Spills | Nancy Salomon and Bob Peoples |
| WEARIEST | Thu Aug 10, 2017 | Spent the most? | John E. Bennett and Jeff Chen |
| YEAHIAM | Sun Apr 2, 2023 | "Nah, you're not!" retort | Jeremy Newton and Tracy Gray |