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 50,653 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIRPLANESEATS | Mon Aug 4, 2014 | What the ends of the answers to 20-, 26- and 42-Across are | Joel Fagliano |
| ALLYSON | Sun Feb 19, 2023 | Olympic runner ___ Felix | Rebecca Goldstein |
| BREADBOX | Wed Feb 5, 2003 | Classic item in size comparisons | Ron O'Hair |
| BRISTLES | Sat Feb 20, 2016 | What toothpaste goes on | James Mulhern |
| DIANECHAMBERS | Wed Oct 26, 1994 | Longtime role for Shelley Long | Rich Norris |
| DIDBATTLE | Sat Feb 9, 2002 | Fought | Rich Norris |
| DISARMINGLY | Thu Oct 10, 1996 | "I'm a beauty," said Venus de Milo ___ | D. J. Kahn |
| DONEUP | Sun May 3, 2015 | Beautified | Dan Schoenholz |
| DRAMATIS | Fri Jan 26, 1996 | ___personae | M. Nosowsky |
| ENDUSERS | Sun Jan 3, 2016 | For whom products are designed | David Woolf |
| FREEZINGPOINT | Sun Jun 21, 1998 | - 32 | Jim Page |
| GARDENPATH | Sat Nov 8, 2025 | Where someone might be led on the way to being tricked | Ryan Judge |
| INASCRAPE | Thu Mar 17, 2016 | Up the creek | David Woolf |
| KIPLING | Thu May 29, 2025 | Source of the line "The female of the species is more deadly than the male" | John Kugelman |
| LOSSLEADERS | Thu Dec 7, 2017 | Big bargains, maybe | Dan Schoenholz |
| LUCREZIABORGIA | Sat Dec 11, 2010 | Daughter of Alexander VI | Paula Gamache |
| LYSSA | Wed Apr 15, 1998 | Rabies | Michael S. Maurer |
| MUN | Sun Oct 2, 1994 | Of city govt. | Frances Hansen |
| NEWTONSLAW | Sat Oct 29, 2005 | Movement explainer | Joe DiPietro |
| OWLETMOTH | Wed Sep 30, 2015 | Flying nocturnal insect | Freddie Cheng |
| PERSONALS | Sat Sep 23, 1995 | Back-of-magazine feature | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| PLAYTHING | Sat Nov 30, 1996 | Pawn | R. Norris |
| POPINJAYS | Thu May 17, 2001 | Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) | David J. Kahn |
| PORTOFSPAIN | Thu Mar 3, 1994 | Trinidad and Tobago's capital | Richard Silvestri |
| PREOPS | Sat Feb 10, 2018 | Hospital sections, for short | Finn Vigeland |
| PRESENTER | Tue Jun 20, 1995 | Award show V.I.P. | Jon Delfin |
| PUTTINGUPAFRONT | Fri Aug 10, 2007 | Hiding one's true feelings | Patrick Berry |
| REBUILT | Sun Jun 13, 2010 | Put back up | Francis Heaney |
| REPUBLICANPARTY | Thu Feb 12, 2009 | 47-Across led it | Gary & Stephen Kennedy |
| SCARYCLOWN | Wed Feb 28, 2024 | Someone terrorizing kids in a 1986 Stephen King novel | Greg Snitkin |
| SEDA | Sun Jun 23, 2002 | Jon of TV's "UC: Undercover" | Eric Berlin |
| SEMANTICS | Sat Mar 27, 2010 | Linguist's concern | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| SPUTNIKONE | Mon Feb 6, 2017 | First satellite to orbit Earth | Andy Hinz |
| STEERTO | Sun Jun 8, 2025 | Point in the direction of | John Kugelman |
| TERAOHM | Wed Jul 21, 2021 | Large unit of resistance | Alex Vratsanos |
| THORNINONESSIDE | Mon Jul 30, 2001 | Source of continual suffering | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| THROUGHTHEYEARS | Sat Nov 4, 2017 | Over time | Michael Shteyman |
| UNSEX | Thu Jan 28, 2010 | Emasculate, say | Raymond C. Young |
| WELCOMETOMYLIFE | Fri Mar 30, 2018 | "And I get dumped on again" | Sam Trabucco |
| WHITEASASHEET | Fri May 24, 2002 | Scared stiff, maybe | Manny Nosowsky |