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 50,668 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFOOLPROOFWAY | Thu Oct 7, 1999 | Query, part 2 | Kelly Clark |
| AIBOHPHOBIA | Wed May 4, 2011 | Jocular term for fear of palindromes | Jeff Chen |
| AIMSFOR | Tue Dec 10, 2013 | Sets one's sights on | Bill Thompson |
| BEACHHOUSES | Thu Mar 3, 2022 | *Cape Cod retreats | August Lee-Kovach |
| BEINTHEDARK | Thu Jan 2, 2020 | Not know something others know | Ed Sessa |
| COUNTERCHECK | Thu Aug 3, 1995 | Restraint on a restraint | Wayne Robert Williams |
| DEVEIN | Wed Jun 13, 2018 | Prepare for eating, as shrimp | Michael Hawkins |
| DOMINUS | Sat Feb 4, 2017 | "___ vobiscum" ("the Lord be with you") | Patrick Berry |
| DOSPASSOS | Fri Dec 1, 1995 | Lost Generation writer John | Manny Nosowsky |
| FEARFUL | Sun Oct 28, 2001 | Scared | Michael Ashley |
| FINELINE | Sun May 8, 2016 | Very small distinction | David J. Kahn |
| FOURBROTHERS | Tue Jan 16, 2007 | 2005 Mark Wahlberg movie | Dave Mackey |
| GOSSIPSESH | Thu Jun 6, 2024 | Occasion to share dirt | Michael Lieberman |
| GOTSOFT | Sun Dec 17, 2006 | Started to melt | Joe DiPietro |
| HIGHSTEP | Sat Jun 11, 2022 | Walk or run in a showy way | Sid Sivakumar |
| HOMEBUTTON | Sun May 8, 2022 | Shortcut missing from newer smartphones | Matthew Stock and Chandi Deitmer |
| HOUSINGPROJECT | Tue Feb 19, 2013 | Publicly funded residential complex | Barry Franklin and Sara Kaplan |
| ICOMEINPEACE | Fri May 26, 2023 | Words from one extending an olive branch | Hemant Mehta |
| IMITATIVE | Sat Aug 19, 2017 | Like store brands vis-à-vis name brands, typically | Mark Diehl |
| KATHARINEGRAHAM | Wed Dec 31, 2003 | Post master, once? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| LECARS | Thu Jan 27, 2022 | 1970s-'80s Renaults | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| LEGCRAMPS | Sun Aug 19, 2012 | Bikers' woes | Freddie Cheng |
| LOCALLAW | Sat Jun 30, 2007 | Ordinance | Byron Walden |
| LONGTERMPARKING | Fri Mar 30, 2012 | Sign words often accompanied by an airplane symbol | Joe Krozel |
| MADEINTHESHADE | Mon Jun 17, 2019 | On easy street | Erik Agard and Yacob Yonas |
| MAINTENON | Sat Feb 11, 1995 | Marquise de _____ (Louis XIV's second wife) | Randolph Ross |
| PRESSONNAILS | Fri Jan 23, 2026 | Digital applications? | Joyce Keller |
| PREWEB | Sun Apr 24, 2022 | Like pioneering search engines of the 1980s | Sam Ezersky |
| RAZZIE | Mon Jul 14, 2025 | Film award that has had the categories "Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie" and "Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie" | Christina Iverson |
| REDBEARD | Sun Oct 21, 2012 | Pirate's moniker | Caleb Rasmussen |
| ROSETATTOO | Sat Aug 13, 1994 | 1955 Magnani film with "The" | Randolph Ross |
| SGTSCHULTZ | Sat Nov 30, 2013 | 1960s sitcom character with the catchphrase "I see nothing!" | Byron Walden and Brad Wilber |
| TALKUP | Wed Feb 5, 2025 | Bang the drum for | Kiran Pandey |
| TAYMOR | Sat Jan 16, 2016 | Julie with two Tonys for "The Lion King" | Sean Dobbin |
| TELETYPES | Sat Dec 17, 2011 | Fax forerunners | Tom Heilman |
| TERRAALBA | Fri Apr 15, 2011 | Clay used by potters | Patrick Berry |
| UWAIT | Sat Aug 13, 2005 | While-___ (shop sign) | Bob Peoples |
| WINNDIXIE | Sun Jun 29, 2014 | Southern grocery chain | Byron Walden |
| WRITTENON | Sun May 15, 2005 | Used, as notepaper | Patrick Berry |
| YIPPIE | Sat May 18, 1996 | 60's activist | M. Nosowsky |