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 50,800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BATTINGGLOVES | Sun Sep 9, 2018 | Pair of diamonds? | Hal Moore |
| BELIEVEYOUME | Sat Apr 18, 2015 | "... and that's no joke!" | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| BRONCHIAL | Wed Feb 12, 1997 | Kind of tube | M. E. Skolsky |
| CHARLIEMCCARTHY | Wed Aug 11, 2010 | Wisecracking dummy of old radio | Edward Sessa |
| CHECKEDINTO | Sat Oct 2, 2021 | Like mysterious matters, often ... or hotels | Wendy L. Brandes |
| CLARENCEDARROW | Sun Dec 21, 2025 | Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial | David Kwong |
| CROPLAND | Fri Dec 20, 2013 | Much of the Plains States | Ian Livengood |
| DIDA | Tue Nov 14, 2000 | ___ number on (psyched out) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DIFFUSE | Mon Dec 11, 2017 | Not concentrated, as light | Brian Thomas |
| DIVIDENDS | Fri Nov 1, 1996 | Bonuses | M. Rosen |
| ENCROACHED | Sun May 20, 2018 | Intruded (on) | Will Nediger |
| FANTASIST | Fri Feb 18, 2011 | Creator of strange worlds | Patrick Berry |
| FIRSTTAKE | Sat Jan 12, 2008 | Recording session starter | Frederick J. Healy |
| FUNNYFACE | Sun Jul 31, 2005 | Gershwin musical | Mark Feldman |
| GEORGESDELATOUR | Sun May 27, 2012 | French Baroque artist who painted "The Fortune Teller" | Byron Walden |
| HATBOX | Sun Aug 26, 2012 | Storage item ... or one of six in this puzzle? | Amanda Yesnowitz and Doug Peterson |
| HYDRATES | Mon Jun 17, 2013 | Infuses with water | Johanna Fenimore and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| IFSTATEMENT | Sat Feb 1, 2020 | Conditional programming line | Mark Diehl |
| INDEXCARD | Sat Feb 12, 2000 | Speaker's prop | Dave Tuller |
| INSIDEOF | Sun Feb 4, 1996 | Not beyond | D. J. Kahn |
| JUDOTHROWS | Tue Mar 17, 2020 | Takedowns at dojos | Ross Trudeau |
| KINGALFRED | Mon Feb 24, 2020 | Ninth-century English monarch known as "the Great" | Jacob Stulberg |
| NAUGHTYORNICE | Fri Dec 24, 2010 | Polar opposites? | Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor |
| OCCULTIST | Tue Jul 30, 2013 | Witch, e.g. | Peter A. Collins |
| QUENCHED | Fri Jan 11, 2019 | Rapidly cooled, as metal | Jim Horne and Jeff Chen |
| ROWDIES | Sun Mar 27, 1994 | Not the quiet ones | Jeanette K. Brill |
| SALLYRAND | Fri Mar 9, 2012 | Dancer who was a fan favorite? | Tim Croce |
| SECONDHANDS | Sun Apr 14, 2002 | Fast sweepers | David J. Kahn |
| SENTMESSAGE | Sun Oct 23, 2011 | Item in a certain e-mail folder | Joe DiPietro |
| STANDINGOODSTEAD | Fri Apr 6, 2018 | Be beneficial to | David Steinberg |
| STEPHENJAYGOULD | Fri Feb 27, 2015 | Evolutionary biologist who wrote "The Panda's Thumb" | Julian Lim |
| STORYEDITOR | Thu Aug 23, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes worker in TV news | Kyle Dolan |
| SUMMERLOVE | Tue Oct 14, 2025 | "In what season are the Olympics during leap years, sweetie?" "___" | Stella Zawistowski |
| TIDALWAVE | Fri May 17, 2024 | Massive onrush | Hemant Mehta |
| TRAINSIGNAL | Fri Aug 22, 2014 | One may tell a conductor to slow down | Sam Ezersky |
| TURNSON | Sun Feb 20, 2022 | Excites | Victor Barocas |
| WEIGHTLOSSPILL | Sat Nov 7, 2020 | It's administered for shedding | Kameron Austin Collins and Paolo Pasco |
| WHATEVERTHECOST | Fri Mar 17, 2006 | Sparing no expense | John Farmer |
| WIREFRAUD | Mon Oct 19, 2015 | *Crime involving a Nigerian prince, maybe | Bruce Venzke and Victor Fleming |
| ZBARS | Fri May 29, 2015 | Steel brackets with two flanges | Patrick Berry |