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 50,463 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMELCORN | Sat Aug 8, 1998 | Hard red grain | Trip Payne |
| ANNUALPHYSICAL | Mon Sep 19, 2022 | *Routine medical checkup | Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| ASHFALL | Tue Sep 1, 2015 | Post-eruption phenomenon | Michael Torch |
| BALIINDONESIA | Sun Dec 8, 2019 | Popular Asian honeymoon destination | Emily Carroll |
| BOLDS | Fri Jun 17, 2005 | Darkens, as type | Manny Nosowsky |
| BRONCS | Sun Oct 16, 2016 | Ones making lots of bucks? | Tom McCoy |
| CALIFORNIASUITE | Wed Aug 8, 2001 | Neil Simon four-skit comedy ... or an apt title for this puzzle | Sam Bellotto Jr. |
| CHARACTER | Sun Aug 6, 1995 | Role | Manny Nosowsky |
| ENERGIZES | Sat Jun 11, 1994 | Peps up | Daniel R. Stark |
| ENVISION | Sat Mar 22, 2014 | Picture | Greg Johnson |
| FEVERED | Sat Aug 19, 2000 | Intensely excited | Charles E. Gersch |
| GATORBOWL | Fri Apr 29, 1994 | December 31 event | Randolph Ross |
| GIFTTAG | Sun Jun 16, 2013 | Present need? | Mel Rosen |
| HOWISITPOSSIBLE | Sat Mar 25, 2000 | With 58-Across, a query from George Carlin | David J. Kahn |
| IRONWARE | Thu May 5, 2016 | Some pots and pans | David Poole |
| ISABELALLENDE | Fri May 12, 2023 | "The House of the Spirits" novelist | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano |
| IWANTEM | Sat Oct 8, 2005 | "Gimme" | Byron Walden |
| KEYSTONES | Fri Dec 17, 2004 | Linchpins | Manny Nosowsky |
| LITTLEPIGS | Mon Aug 20, 2007 | Fortune-seeking trio | Lynn Lempel |
| LUMPIA | Sun Oct 29, 2023 | Filipino spring roll | Alina Abidi |
| MELTEDICE | Sun Apr 23, 2006 | Water, perhaps | Joe DiPietro |
| MIDDLEAGED | Thu Dec 15, 2011 | In the 40s? | Jim Hilger |
| MINIMUMWAGE | Sun Jun 30, 2013 | Money raised by members of Congress? | Alex Vratsanos and Jeff Chen |
| MONOPHONIC | Fri Feb 29, 2008 | Like most 1950s recordings | Patrick Berry |
| NICEGOINGGENIUS | Wed Dec 20, 2006 | Words of congratulation — NOT! | Nancy Salomon |
| NOEM | Mon Nov 6, 2023 | South Dakota governor Kristi ___ | Desirée Penner and Jeff Sinnock |
| NORTHERNPACIFIC | Sat Mar 1, 2003 | Line from Seattle to Chicago | Randolph Ross |
| OBGYNDOCTORS | Mon Aug 12, 2019 | Delivery people? | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| OCTROI | Fri Jun 12, 1998 | Old import tax | Matt Gaffney |
| OLDENBURG | Fri Sep 8, 1995 | Sculptor Claes ____ | A.J. Santora |
| QUANTIFY | Mon Jan 24, 2022 | Put a number on | John Guzzetta |
| RASPERS | Sat Nov 11, 2006 | Some laryngitis sufferers | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| REBOXED | Fri Jun 19, 2020 | Made more secure for shipping, say | Greg Johnson |
| RESEARCHPAPER | Wed Apr 21, 2004 | Student's worry | Michael Shteyman |
| ROWDIES | Sun Mar 27, 1994 | Not the quiet ones | Jeanette K. Brill |
| SEETHROUGHDRESS | Sat May 12, 2001 | Head-turning attire | Michael Shteyman |
| SQUAREINCH | Sun Oct 16, 2011 | See shaded letters intersected by this answer | Joel Fagliano |
| THESECRET | Wed Aug 21, 2019 | E-book? | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| TSWIZZLE | Sat Feb 17, 2024 | Nickname for Time's 2023 Person of the Year | Spencer Leach and Jem Burch |
| WHOISTHIS | Fri Jul 19, 2002 | Question to a crank caller | Elizabeth C. Gorski |