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 50,793 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCEDFORMULA | Mon Jun 17, 1996 | Ad puff | S. L. Robbins |
| ALLTOOEASY | Fri Dec 1, 2023 | A real piece of cake | Jem Burch |
| AREAFIFTYONE | Sun Mar 17, 2024 | Attraction in 69-Across on the Extraterrestrial Highway | Simeon Seigel |
| BACKSLIDE | Sun Aug 8, 2004 | Reverse progress | Bill Zais |
| BANOS | Wed Jan 11, 2017 | Spanish baths | Peter A. Collins |
| BIGSHOULDERS | Tue Jul 19, 1994 | Feature of 40-Across, according to Sandburg | Christopher Hurt |
| CLOSEDSHOP | Sun Aug 6, 2000 | Union site | Manny Nosowsky |
| DEPORTS | Mon Oct 30, 2000 | Kicks out of the country | Gregory E. Paul |
| DESKFUL | Fri Sep 3, 1999 | Complete supply of paper and office things | David J. Kahn |
| DRAMATISTS | Thu Aug 9, 2012 | Playmakers? | Joe Krozel |
| DROPKICK | Thu Mar 30, 2023 | Quit / Quit | Adam Wagner and Brooke Husic |
| FATASACOW | Wed May 28, 2014 | Scale-busting | Tim Croce |
| FITTO | Thu Oct 15, 2015 | ___ be tied | Kevin G. Der |
| FIVEFLOORWALKUP | Wed Aug 24, 2022 | "You can cancel that gym membership!" | Colin Ernst |
| GFS | Sun Apr 17, 2016 | Guys' dates, informally | Howard Barkin |
| GLADNESS | Wed Aug 16, 1995 | Happy Eliot? | Judith Perry |
| GLAZEDEXPRESSION | Sun Oct 15, 2023 | "I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts ..." | Jeff Chen and Juliana Tringali Golden |
| HORSESTABLE | Wed Jan 28, 2026 | Article of furniture on which a plate of oats might be set? | Kevin Curry |
| HOSTING | Fri Jan 18, 2019 | Web service | Andrew J. Ries |
| HURRICANESANDY | Sun Apr 1, 2018 | Natural disaster of 2012 | Sam Ezersky |
| HYSONS | Fri May 18, 2018 | Some Chinese teas | Ryan McCarty |
| INSOLENTLY | Fri Jun 10, 2022 | With sauce | Blake Slonecker |
| IRRATIONAL | Fri Mar 9, 2007 | Like some fears | Randolph Ross |
| LESSERAPE | Sun May 7, 2000 | Gibbon, for one | Patrick D. Berry |
| LETEMIN | Tue Aug 17, 2010 | 1976 hit that begins "Someone's knockin' at the door" | Michael Sharp |
| MACGYVERS | Sat Aug 17, 2024 | Fashions out of whatever's lying around | Brandon Koppy |
| MIXESITUP | Sat Apr 27, 2019 | Gets into a fistfight | Joe Deeney |
| MOUNTY | Wed Dec 21, 1994 | Nelson Eddy in "Rose Marie" | Alfio Micci |
| NOTLOOKINGSOHOT | Tue Jul 28, 2009 | "Doubtful" | Tony Orbach |
| OHDEM | Sun Oct 20, 1996 | "___ Golden Slippers" | R. Ross |
| OPENSINCE | Sat Jan 14, 2017 | Words before a business's date of establishment | Andrew Kingsley |
| PAPACIES | Sun Jun 21, 2009 | Vatican rules | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| SINGLEPLACE | Thu Sep 2, 2004 | With 20- and 55-Across, description of 60-Across | David J. Kahn |
| STICKSITTO | Sun Oct 22, 2000 | Treats unfairly | Henry Hook |
| STRUGGLEBUS | Sat Nov 9, 2024 | Something the floundering are said to be on | Chandi Deitmer and Hoang-Kim Vu |
| TABLEMANNERS | Sat Jan 24, 1998 | Post subject | Randolph Ross |
| TOORICHFORMYBLOOD | Thu Jan 24, 2019 | "I'm out" | Stu Ockman |
| WARRANTOR | Fri Apr 16, 2004 | Product manufacturer, at times | Ed Early |
| WHOOPIGOLDBERG | Thu Feb 3, 1994 | 1990 Best Supporting Actress | A.J. Santora |
| WOODARD | Sun Feb 16, 1997 | Lynette ___, first female Harlem Globetrotter | M. Gaffney |