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 50,366 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALPHABETBLOCKS | Sun Oct 13, 2019 | Children's playthings that help with spelling | Erik Agard |
| BOATERS | Wed Jan 15, 1997 | Straw hats | C. Currier |
| BUGBEARS | Sat May 17, 2014 | Sources of chronic annoyance | Brad Wilber |
| CAMEALONG | Sat Dec 28, 2019 | Went too | Robyn Weintraub |
| CANADABLUEGRASS | Sat Jan 11, 2014 | It has a close "Kentucky" cousin | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| CONSTANTCRAVING | Sat Mar 17, 2018 | 1992 hit for k. d. lang | Roland Huget |
| FLEETWOODMAC | Thu Jan 20, 2022 | FM band on the radio? | Howard Barkin |
| FORGOODNESSSAKE | Sun May 2, 1999 | "My stars!" | Jim Page |
| FRAFILIPPOLIPPI | Sat Apr 6, 2019 | Renaissance artist who's famous for his "Coronation of the Virgin" | Ned White |
| GETSITON | Sat Mar 12, 2011 | Begins brawling | Joon Pahk |
| GOANNA | Sat Oct 29, 2016 | Australian monitor lizard | Patrick Berry |
| GOOVERSEAS | Thu Apr 1, 2021 | Travel abroad | Sam Ezersky |
| HIGHNOTE | Mon Jul 2, 2012 | It may be hit by a soprano | Bernice Gordon |
| INCUBATES | Tue Jan 7, 2014 | Sits on to keep warm, say | Mark Bickham |
| KGBSPIES | Fri Dec 25, 2015 | Red moles | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| LAVISHLY | Wed Jul 10, 1996 | With extravagance | Diane C. Baldwin |
| LEGTO | Fri Oct 30, 1998 | Have a ___ stand on | Jim Page |
| MAGICLAMPS | Thu Mar 9, 2017 | Things from which genii are summoned | Jeremy Newton |
| MAILITIN | Mon May 29, 2017 | Do a perfunctory performance | Jeff Chen and Seth Geltman |
| MARTHAGRAHAM | Thu Sep 16, 2004 | Laughing choreographer? | Paula Gamache |
| NONFACTORS | Fri Oct 4, 2019 | They don't come into play | Matthew Sewell |
| OUTNUMBER | Thu Dec 25, 2014 | Be bigger than, in a way | Xan Vongsathorn |
| PEACHBRANDY | Tue May 28, 2002 | Sweet drink | Ed Early |
| PLAYERSUNION | Thu Apr 21, 2022 | Labor group for athletes | Max Chen Lauring |
| POISONOAK | Sat Mar 2, 2013 | Toxicodendron diversilobum | Barry C. Silk |
| POLARICECAP | Mon May 9, 2005 | Shrinking Arctic mass | Jim Hyres |
| REMEMBERS | Thu May 13, 2004 | Calls up | Patrick Merrell |
| SAILSON | Sat Jan 29, 2011 | Keeps cruising | Ned White |
| SCHOOLCLUB | Tue Mar 24, 2015 | Debate team or Model United Nations | Robyn Weintraub |
| SETSUPON | Mon Jan 2, 2012 | Attacks vigorously | Paula Gamache |
| SPEAKSONESPIECE | Wed Feb 12, 2025 | Talks frankly | Philip Koski |
| STTHERESA | Fri May 14, 1999 | So-called "Little Flower of Jesus" | Frank Longo |
| STYLERS | Sat Aug 26, 2000 | Bun makers, e.g. | A. J. Santora |
| TEMPERATURE | Sun May 12, 2019 | What's measured by [circled letters] | Victor Barocas |
| TOYSOLDIERS | Fri Jan 20, 2017 | Little green men | Angela Olson Halsted |
| TRAINEDELEPHANT | Sat Dec 14, 2013 | Jumbo, e.g. | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| UNBECOMING | Fri Jan 18, 2002 | Neither right nor proper | Manny Nosowsky |
| URAWA | Wed Feb 4, 1998 | Suburb of Tokyo | Fred Piscop |
| VEGETABLESHORTENING | Sun Jun 25, 2017 | Canful in a cupboard ... or a hint to parts of six answers in this puzzle | Jacob Stulberg |
| VIENNABOYSCHOIR | Sat Aug 29, 1998 | Hofburg Palace Chapel performers | Jim Page |