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 50,423 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHISTORICAL | Tue Mar 17, 2020 | Ignoring the record of past events | Ross Trudeau |
| AIRPISTOL | Sat Feb 26, 2005 | Pellet shooter | Jim Page |
| AMEBIC | Sun Jun 29, 2003 | Protozoan | Rich Norris |
| ANDTHENTHEREWERENONE | Sun Oct 2, 2005 | 1939 Agatha Christie classic | Randolph Ross |
| AOSCOTT | Tue May 31, 2016 | Longtime New York Times film critic | Sarah Keller |
| BOATERS | Wed Jan 15, 1997 | Straw hats | C. Currier |
| CALLATRUCE | Sat Aug 16, 2003 | Stop fighting | Manny Nosowsky |
| CHICKENYAKITORI | Mon Jul 12, 2021 | Grilled Japanese dish on skewers | Kevin Christian |
| COWPATTY | Sat Mar 24, 2001 | Pasture item | Mark Diehl |
| CUTPRICE | Sat Dec 28, 2002 | Reduction | Rich Norris |
| DOMINANCE | Sat Mar 18, 2006 | Unquestioned #1 status | Patrick Berry |
| DOUBLEDOGDARES | Sat Jul 22, 2023 | Extreme challenges | Robert Logan |
| ECLIPTIC | Sun Apr 5, 1998 | Like a solar event | David J. Kahn |
| FOODSTAPLE | Sat Aug 17, 2019 | Corn or rice | Michael Hawkins |
| FRYBREAD | Tue Feb 5, 2019 | Naan-like Native American food | Erik Agard |
| GENERATED | Thu Feb 27, 1997 | Produced | Raymond C. Young |
| GOATSBEARD | Tue Jul 29, 2014 | ... for a fall guy? | Timothy Polin |
| GRASSLAND | Thu Dec 4, 2003 | Savanna | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| HADABEEF | Thu May 19, 2016 | Was unhappy (with) | Morton J. Mendelson |
| KATHARINEROSS | Sun Oct 10, 2004 | "The Stepford Wives" actress, 1975 | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LUT | Sun Oct 30, 1994 | Iranian desert | R. M. Hopkins |
| MANUALLY | Sat Nov 5, 2016 | By hand | David Phillips |
| MARIJUANALEAVES | Fri Dec 20, 2024 | Common motifs in high art? | Henry Josephson |
| MENSSIZES | Sat Dec 12, 1998 | Clothing store designations | Rich Norris |
| OBTRUDER | Mon Jan 24, 1994 | Busybody | Janie Lyons |
| OSMUND | Sun Aug 16, 1998 | Royal fern | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| POLICYCHANGE | Wed Mar 23, 2022 | FLIP-FLOP | Barbara Lin |
| PRICEINDEX | Wed Jul 3, 2019 | Bureau of Labor Statistics statistic | Evan Mahnken |
| REGGAETON | Fri Oct 3, 2014 | Combined Latin/Jamaican/hip-hop genre | Tracy Bennett |
| ROSALYN | Sat Jan 8, 2011 | Calvin's baby sitter in "Calvin and Hobbes" | Will Nediger |
| SCAFFOLD | Tue Jun 4, 2013 | Painter's support | Kristian House |
| SLOBBERED | Fri Jan 21, 2011 | Acted like a baby, in a way | Pete Mitchell |
| SMALLSCREENS | Sat Nov 1, 1997 | Televisions | Rich Norris |
| SPEEDCOP | Sun Feb 2, 2025 | Officer with a radar gun | Derrick Niederman |
| SPINCLASSES | Sun Apr 6, 2025 | Intense cycling sessions ... or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues | Kareem Ayas |
| STATEBANKS | Fri Jul 14, 2017 | Chartered financial institutions | Patrick Berry |
| SYLVESTERSTALLONE | Sun Jan 11, 2015 | The bartender poured beers for all the action movie stars, including ___ | Peter A. Collins |
| TAXPREP | Sat Oct 19, 2013 | Return service | Peter Wentz |
| TWEETERS | Sat Jul 22, 2000 | They put out high-frequency sounds | Joan Williamson |
| UNDIVIDED | Thu Jul 22, 2010 | United | Jeremy Horwitz |