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 50,430 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABSTRACTIONISTS | Fri Jan 5, 1996 | Pollock and Kline, e.g. | R. Ross |
| ACCESSED | Sat Jul 5, 1997 | Got to | Rich Norris |
| ACQUIRELAND | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | Buy real estate | Francis Heaney |
| ANDWORSE | Sun Dec 15, 1996 | Even more distressing | R. Ross |
| ATTENDANCESHEET | Fri Mar 17, 2017 | Skipping record? | Jacob Stulberg |
| BATTINGORDER | Sun Jul 24, 2011 | Wool or cotton purchase request? | Kurt Mueller |
| BITEVALVE | Mon May 14, 2018 | End of a drinking hose | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| BLACKEYEDPEAS | Sun Apr 7, 2024 | Group with the 2009 hit "I Gotta Feeling" | Tracy Gray |
| BLANKCARTRIDGES | Mon May 19, 2008 | Contents of guns used in training exercises | Mike Nothnagel |
| BYNER | Tue Feb 25, 1997 | Sketch comic John | Gregory E. Paul |
| CADAVER | Sun Nov 1, 1998 | Body | Robert Malinow |
| CITS | Sat Jun 9, 2018 | Residents: Abbr. | Roland Huget |
| CRANIO | Sat Mar 9, 1996 | Head start? | R. Norris |
| DEROGATE | Sun Mar 13, 1994 | Belittle | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| DOYOUHEARME | Fri Dec 7, 2018 | "Are we clear?" | Sam Trabucco |
| FAIRLADY | Sun Nov 20, 2016 | Damsel, to a knight | Ed Sessa |
| GIFFORD | Sun Nov 12, 2017 | Philbin's onetime morning co-host | Ed Sessa |
| HALFPENNY | Sun Jun 20, 2010 | British coin discontinued in 1984 | Todd Gross and Ashish Vengsarkar |
| HENRIS | Sat Dec 17, 1994 | Toulouse-Lautrec and others | Chuck Deodene |
| IAMTHEYANKEEDOODLEBOY | Sun Jul 2, 1995 | More words by 7-Down | Alex K. Justin |
| JACKKEMP | Sat May 6, 1995 | Bush HUD Secretary | Randolph Ross |
| KENTON | Sat Dec 7, 2002 | "Artistry in Rhythm" composer | Rich Norris |
| LOOKSEES | Fri Feb 5, 2010 | Quick surveys | Joe Krozel |
| MISTRIALS | Tue Jan 25, 1994 | Results of some errors | Joel Davajan |
| MOLDAVIA | Fri Apr 17, 1998 | Region of eastern Europe | Matt Gaffney |
| MOUNTSHASTA | Sat Jan 15, 2022 | Locale 60 miles south of the California/Oregon border | Sam Ezersky |
| MRTCEREAL | Sat Oct 19, 2019 | Onetime Quaker offering based on a 1980s TV icon | Byron Walden |
| NORTHAMPTONMA | Tue Jun 19, 2007 | Home of Smith College | John Underwood |
| OPERABUFFS | Fri Dec 17, 1999 | Met fans | Manny Nosowsky |
| POLEMICAL | Mon Jul 19, 2010 | Tending to cause an argument | David Blake |
| RABBITSFOOT | Mon May 23, 2011 | Common key chain adornment | Steve Salitan |
| REARBUMPER | Sun Sep 30, 2012 | Commuter on a crowded bus, e.g.? | Elayne Cantor and Victor Fleming |
| RUCK | Mon Jul 3, 1995 | Wrinkle | Fred Piscop |
| SALTMARSH | Sun Dec 2, 2018 | Brackish coastal habitat | Paul Coulter |
| SAMNUNN | Thu Jun 2, 2011 | Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1987-95 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SNITCHON | Thu Jun 28, 2012 | Betray, in a way | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SPARRER | Thu Oct 5, 1995 | Boxer at practice | Christopher Page |
| SUESOVER | Tue Jan 5, 2021 | Author Grafton has arrived for dinner | Amy Schecter and Christina Iverson |
| TRADITION | Thu Oct 6, 2022 | How things have always been done | Simeon Seigel |
| WONDER | Sat May 17, 2008 | Want to know | Mike Nothnagel |