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 50,565 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACOMPLETEFOOL | Tue May 7, 2002 | What the neophyte jester didn't feel like? | Steven Dorfman |
| ANTAL | Thu Feb 3, 1994 | Conductor Dorati | A.J. Santora |
| APLUSWORK | Tue Jul 8, 2025 | Outstanding effort ... or a feature of 16-, 21-, 34- and 46-Across? | Jesse Guzman |
| APPENDICES | Thu Oct 16, 2025 | *Book addenda | Kareem Ayas |
| ARTICHOKES | Fri Jul 25, 2014 | Heads with hearts | Peter A. Collins |
| BINDSTO | Thu Feb 9, 2006 | Connects with | Ethan Cooper |
| BREADCRUMBTRAIL | Tue Nov 29, 2011 | Navigation aid for Hansel and Gretel | Aimee Lucido |
| CHANGESONESTUNE | Mon Jul 19, 2004 | Starts telling a different story | Nancy Salomon and Kendall Twigg |
| CHEWON | Sun Jul 16, 2017 | Mull over | Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller |
| CITYSTATEANDZIP | Thu Dec 13, 2007 | End of some addresses | John Farmer |
| CREAMEDCORN | Tue Jul 22, 2003 | Mistreated vegetable? | Steven Kahn |
| CRISPNESS | Sun Apr 16, 1995 | Potato chip quality | Matt Gaffney |
| DECAGONAL | Sun Dec 3, 2006 | Having all angles equal to 144 degrees | Patrick Merrell |
| DRFUMANCHU | Mon Jan 27, 2020 | *Sinister genius in a series of Sax Rohmer novels | Timothy Polin |
| EDENPRAIRIE | Tue Jun 25, 2013 | Minnesota city SW of Minneapolis so named for its fertile soil | Joel Fagliano |
| FILIBUSTER | Mon Mar 23, 1998 | Intransigent senator's tactic | Randall J. Hartman |
| FORTUNECOOKIES | Thu Aug 5, 1999 | After-dinner entertainment? | A. J. Santora |
| FREAKINGOUT | Thu Oct 14, 2021 | "That third strike cost us the game!" | Matt Fuchs |
| FULLSPEEDAHEAD | Mon Jul 5, 2010 | "Go!" | Jill Denny and Jeff Chen |
| GIBBERS | Sun Aug 22, 2010 | Speaks nonsense | Patrick Berry |
| GUARDEDOPTIMISM | Sun Jul 4, 2021 | Upbeat sentry's emotion? | Howard Barkin |
| ILLDRINKTOTHAT | Fri Feb 10, 2017 | "You said it!" | Kyle Mahowald |
| LETSDROP | Sun Nov 29, 2015 | Doesn't pursue | Alex Vratsanos |
| MOUNTBATTEN | Sun Oct 27, 1996 | Prince Philip's surname | N. N. Joline |
| OUTOFCOURT | Tue Oct 10, 2017 | How some legal disputes get settled | Mark MacLachlan |
| PAUP | Sun Jan 4, 1998 | N.F.L. sacker Bryce ___ | Mark Danna |
| REARING | Sat Feb 7, 1998 | Raising, in a way | Frank Longo |
| RELOCATES | Thu May 31, 2012 | Moves | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| RUNTOHIM | Sun Apr 6, 1997 | 1961 Bobby Vee hit | Rich Norris |
| SADDLEHORSES | Fri Jan 3, 1997 | Certain mounts | M. Nosowsky |
| SELFSOWN | Sun May 23, 2021 | Like many wildflower seeds | Jennifer Nebergall |
| SETTLEABLE | Sun Jul 7, 1996 | Like Western land, to the pioneers | R. H. Wolfe |
| STOVEIN | Sun Nov 26, 2000 | Bashed, as a door | Patrick Berry |
| THREEPOINTER | Tue Jan 7, 2020 | Long jumper, in hoops | Ross Trudeau |
| TIMIDITY | Sun Nov 15, 2015 | Antithesis of brashness | Alan Arbesfeld |
| TINSMITH | Thu Feb 25, 2010 | Artisan whose work is featured in this puzzle? | Holden Baker |
| TONIMORRISON | Tue Aug 13, 2024 | Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle | Benjamin Panico |
| UCIRVINE | Fri Apr 24, 2009 | The Anteaters of the Big West Conf. | Barry C. Silk |
| VINERIPE | Wed May 26, 2010 | Like some tomatoes | Anna Shechtman |
| VOICERS | Fri Aug 30, 1996 | Assertive ones | A. J. Santora |