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 50,871 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABSOLUTVODKA | Mon Sep 5, 2011 | Swedish liquor with memorable ads | Patrick Merrell |
| BLOWER | Tue Aug 29, 2023 | Leaf ___ (fall tool) | Michèle Govier |
| BLOWIT | Fri Mar 29, 2024 | Spoil everything | Jake Bunch |
| CALMDOWN | Mon Feb 11, 2019 | "Chill out!" | Howard Barkin |
| CHAPBOOK | Fri Jan 29, 1999 | Old-fashioned reading | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon |
| CHORTLES | Sat May 21, 1994 | Shows glee | Charles E. Gersch |
| COMPUTERCRASH | Tue Jun 7, 2022 | What the "spinning beach ball of death" might indicate | Carly Schuna |
| CROWDPLEASERS | Sun Mar 18, 2012 | Widely popular shows, say | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| EXPECTEDLY | Mon May 23, 2016 | As predicted | Ori Brian |
| FALSEGOD | Thu Apr 7, 2005 | Idol | Patrick Merrell |
| FOGERTY | Sat Oct 21, 2000 | John who sang "Jambalaya" | Bob Klahn |
| HEARSES | Tue Aug 14, 2018 | Funeral vehicles | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| HUTMENT | Sat Apr 23, 2005 | Group of rude dwellings | Patrick Berry |
| IMPRESARIO | Fri May 4, 2018 | One who gets the show on the road | Michael Hawkins |
| INTHEBEGINNING | Thu Jan 12, 2006 | Biblical opening | Kyle Mahowald |
| ITSANOBRAINER | Thu Oct 28, 2021 | Reason the zombies are, of course, skipping the empty house? | Alan Massengill |
| KEVINDURANT | Sat Oct 11, 2014 | 2014 N.B.A. M.V.P. | Evans Clinchy |
| MAKI | Sat Nov 23, 2024 | Sushi roll wrapped in seaweed | Ryan McCarty |
| MAMANS | Tue Jan 10, 1995 | Marseille moms | Christopher Page |
| MOLLYBLOOM | Thu Oct 12, 1995 | She has the last word in 24 Down | Christopher Hurt |
| NETGAINS | Sat Aug 7, 1999 | Stockholders like to see them | Trip Payne |
| NOLTES | Wed Jul 29, 2009 | Actor Nick and family | Tim Wescott |
| OUTMANS | Sat Feb 16, 2002 | Has more troops than | Frank Longo |
| POOLSTICK | Thu Jan 16, 1997 | Cue | W. R. Williams |
| POORBOX | Sun Apr 13, 2025 | Container for alms | John Kugelman |
| POORYOU | Sat May 27, 2023 | Sarcastic response to a first-world-problem complaint | Samuel Smalley |
| RECIDIVATE | Sat Mar 9, 1996 | Fall back | R. Norris |
| REFASTEN | Tue Jan 25, 1994 | Double-check the seat belts | Joel Davajan |
| RESIZER | Sat Jan 12, 2002 | One enlarging pictures, say | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SACREDCOWS | Fri Feb 20, 1998 | They are beyond reproach | Manny Nosowsky |
| SOUGHED | Sun Apr 4, 1999 | Murmured softly | Richard Silvestri |
| SPEEDREAD | Sat Aug 5, 2017 | Get through lines quickly | David Phillips |
| SPYPLANES | Sat Nov 29, 2025 | High-level intelligence assets? | Adrian Johnson |
| STANDDOWN | Tue Jan 2, 2024 | Cease fighting [Opposite of 61-Across?] | Jeffrey Martinovic |
| STRINE | Sun Apr 21, 2019 | Broad Australian accent, informally | Grant Thackray |
| THESILVERSCREEN | Fri Apr 12, 1996 | Movies | M. Nosowsky |
| TICONDEROGA | Sat Mar 12, 1994 | Historic site of 1775 | Rand H. Burns |
| TITOV | Sun Apr 29, 2012 | Gherman ___, cosmonaut who was the second human to orbit the earth | Tracy Gray |
| VERBENA | Sun Jun 12, 1994 | Fragrant garden plant | Frances Hansen |
| WOODROT | Sat Jun 7, 2025 | Corruption below deck, perhaps | Blake Slonecker |