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 50,573 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTHAPPY | Sat May 4, 2002 | Try not to look down | Rich Norris |
| AIBOHPHOBIA | Wed May 4, 2011 | Jocular term for fear of palindromes | Jeff Chen |
| BEACHBOYS | Fri Jul 26, 2002 | Resort attendants | Manny Nosowsky |
| BOSSAROUND | Fri May 21, 2010 | Order indiscriminately | Patrick Berry |
| BRANCHOFF | Sun May 10, 2015 | Diverge | Jacob Stulberg |
| BREACHING | Fri Jun 14, 2013 | Getting through | Patrick Berry |
| BREECHING | Sat Oct 24, 2020 | Going from petticoats to pants, once | Byron Walden |
| CAMBERS | Sat May 19, 2018 | Slight upward curves, as in roads or beams | John Guzzetta |
| CATSITTING | Wed Sep 23, 2020 | Activity that might involve setting out saucers of milk | Margit Christenson |
| CHALKBOARD | Tue May 5, 2020 | Riddle-de-dee: What's clean when black and dirty when white? | Lee Taylor |
| CREMEDELACREME | Sat Mar 5, 2022 | Very best | Nam Jin Yoon |
| CULTURALATTACHE | Fri Nov 8, 2024 | One working on a long-distance relationship | Evans Clinchy |
| CUPOLAED | Sun May 26, 2002 | Like many state capitols | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FISHFARM | Sat Feb 17, 2007 | Facility with many schools | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FLOODED | Fri Apr 29, 1994 | Overwhelmed | Randolph Ross |
| GASGAUGE | Mon Jun 29, 2020 | Dashboard dial that goes from "E" to "F" | Peter Gordon |
| HADFAITH | Sat Jul 27, 2019 | Trusted | Byron Walden |
| HOMEMATCH | Sat Jan 24, 2015 | What you can never win going away | Kevin G. Der |
| HOWNICEOFYOU | Sun May 26, 2002 | "Thanks so much!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| HUMANNATURE | Mon Mar 6, 2023 | Set of traits we all have ... or a two-part description of the answers to the starred clues? | Lynn Lempel |
| IDENTIFICATIONS | Fri Mar 2, 2012 | Security requests | Scott Atkinson |
| JEREMYS | Fri Jul 23, 1999 | Irons and others | Joe DiPietro |
| KEYTAGS | Fri May 9, 2014 | Accessories purchased just for openers? | James Mulhern |
| LIFEBELTS | Thu Apr 24, 2014 | Flotation gear | Stanley Newman |
| LOUVREPYRAMID | Wed Jul 10, 2019 | 36-Across-designed Paris landmark (1989) | David J. Kahn |
| MANQUE | Thu Nov 8, 2012 | Having failed aspirations | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| MARIJUANALEAVES | Fri Dec 20, 2024 | Common motifs in high art? | Henry Josephson |
| METHINKS | Sun Dec 17, 2017 | Quaint "I believe" | Andrew J. Ries |
| OPHTHALMO | Fri Nov 10, 1995 | Introduction for an eye doctor | Bryant White |
| RELIGIOUSREFORMER | Thu Apr 19, 2012 | John Calvin, e.g. | Sean Dobbin |
| SHOWHOWITSDONE | Sun May 13, 2007 | *Demonstrate the method | Jim Page |
| SMASHINGPUMPKINS | Sun Jul 15, 2018 | Compliment to a vegetable gardener? | Sam Ezersky and Byron Walden |
| STEPFORWARD | Mon Jul 27, 1998 | Volunteer | Steven Picus |
| SUBPART | Fri Apr 15, 2011 | Fraction of a fraction | Patrick Berry |
| THEMISSINGLINK | Sun Aug 30, 2009 | AR--CL- | Ashish Vengsarkar and Narayan Venkatasubramanyan |
| TOERAG | Mon Dec 31, 2018 | Scoundrel, in British slang | Brian Thomas |
| TRISECTS | Sat Apr 27, 1996 | Cuts geometrically | F. Hansen |
| WISEASSES | Sun Mar 24, 2024 | People who might answer "What's up?" with "The sky" | John Kugelman |
| YANGON | Thu Feb 9, 2006 | Myanmar's capital | Ethan Cooper |
| ZMED | Fri Apr 25, 2008 | "T. J. Hooker" actor Adrian | Mike Nothnagel |