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 50,730 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALBUMIN | Sat Oct 6, 2012 | Egg white component | Steve Salitan |
| ALLTOOTRUE | Wed Oct 7, 2020 | "Regrettably, that's the case" | Ross Trudeau |
| ARTTHERAPY | Sat Apr 21, 2007 | Psychiatric discipline pioneered by Margaret Naumburg | Byron Walden |
| AUSTENITES | Sat Aug 16, 2025 | Lovers of "Emma" and "Persuasion" | Byron Walden |
| AUTOMOBILETRUNK | Sat Oct 8, 2011 | It's often popped on a shoulder | Tim Croce |
| CAROLYN | Thu Sep 23, 1999 | John Jr.'s love | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ELUCIDATES | Sun Nov 30, 2014 | Clarifies | Matt Ginsberg |
| ENGELBERT | Thu Oct 18, 2018 | German composer Humperdinck | Erik Agard |
| FANTASTS | Sat May 7, 2005 | Visionaries | Patrick Berry |
| FEDERALGRANT | Sun Feb 23, 2025 | Source of some public funding | Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa |
| FEUER | Sun Mar 24, 1996 | Eis's counterpart | J. K. Brill |
| FORDTOCITYDROPDEAD | Sun Mar 9, 2025 | New York Daily News, 10/30/1975 | Michael Schlossberg |
| GIRARDI | Thu Dec 27, 2018 | Former Yankees manager Joe | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| HULKHOGAN | Sat Oct 28, 2006 | Wrestler once called the "Irresistible Force" | David Quarfoot |
| IONESKYE | Sun Feb 2, 2014 | John Cusack's co-star in "Say Anything ..." | Dick Shlakman and Jeff Chen |
| KURTWEILL | Thu Mar 2, 2000 | Composer born March 2, 1900 | Frances Hansen |
| LANOSE | Sun Dec 23, 2012 | Woolly | Joe DiPietro |
| LASTPAGE | Fri Nov 24, 2023 | Where a whodunit may reveal "who done it" | Rafael Musa |
| MANDUCATES | Wed Nov 16, 2022 | Chews ... NOT elaborates condescendingly to a female | John Hawksley |
| NULLI | Sun Sep 18, 1994 | None: Prefix | Merl Reagle |
| OLIVETREES | Thu Apr 11, 2024 | Subjects in a series of van Gogh landscape paintings | Dan Caprera |
| OPENMOUTHED | Mon Apr 5, 1999 | Gaping | Gregory E. Paul |
| OPENPRIMARIES | Fri Oct 16, 2015 | Events with crossover voters | Joe Krozel |
| OVERABOUND | Sat Mar 8, 2025 | More than teem | Joe Deeney |
| PADDLEBOARD | Thu May 30, 2019 | Dog ... / Star ... | Brandon Koppy |
| PINPRICK | Thu Jan 15, 1998 | Minor annoyance | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| RANSOMNOTE | Sun Sep 20, 2020 | Message made with cut-out letters, stereotypically | Sam Trabucco |
| RETROSPECT | Fri Nov 7, 2003 | Survey of the past | Jim Page |
| ROYALPAINS | Sun Nov 30, 2014 | Major annoyances | Matt Ginsberg |
| SCARAMANGA | Sun Sep 29, 2002 | The Man With the Golden Gun | Randolph Ross |
| SOLDIERANTS | Sat Apr 4, 2026 | Protectors of a queen | Royce Ferguson |
| SOLITARY | Sun Mar 6, 2005 | Prison punishment | John Greenman |
| STAROFBETHLEHEM | Tue Dec 14, 1993 | Biblical beacon | Joel Davajan |
| SUPERSTORE | Sat Aug 20, 2016 | One-stop shopping spot | Mark Diehl |
| SYNCHS | Sun Sep 12, 1999 | Harmonizes, briefly | Nancy Scandrett Ross |
| TIBETANYAK | Tue Sep 12, 2006 | Hirsute Himalayan beast | James R. Leeds |
| VOCALCOACH | Tue Jun 2, 2020 | One who helps you hit just the right note | John Guzzetta |
| VULCANSALUTE | Wed Oct 14, 2020 | *1st separate, 2nd and 3rd together, and 4th and 5th together | Rich Proulx |
| WASTEDPOTENTIAL | Fri Oct 11, 2024 | Underachiever's issue | Billy Bratton |
| WHATOFIT | Tue Nov 10, 2020 | "You got a problem with that?" | Robert Fisher |