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 50,836 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARABICCHARACTER | Mon Sep 25, 2023 | Alif, ba, ta or hamza | Lynn Lempel |
| BACCARAT | Sat Aug 23, 2014 | Casio game | Timothy Polin |
| BEHEADING | Thu Jan 22, 2009 | Lady Jane Grey's fate | Gary J. Whitehead |
| BEINGOBTUSE | Tue Sep 28, 2021 | Refusing to understand | Meghan Morris |
| BITEYOURTONGUE | Mon Oct 13, 1997 | "Hush!" | Gregory E. Paul |
| BONEWEARY | Wed Apr 14, 2021 | Completely exhausted | Nathan Hasegawa |
| BWAHAHA | Fri Oct 26, 2018 | Maniacal laugh | Evan Kalish |
| CATDOG | Sat Aug 8, 2020 | Conjoined title character of 1990s-2000s Nickelodeon cartoons | Brooke Husic and Sid Sivakumar |
| DETAINED | Sun May 31, 2020 | Held up | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| DICKMARTIN | Sun Jun 25, 2006 | "Laugh-In" host | Jim Page |
| EASEOFF | Fri Oct 15, 2004 | Let up | Eric Berlin |
| ENVIABLE | Mon May 2, 2022 | Worthy of coveting | Erik Agard |
| FAINTISH | Fri Apr 19, 2013 | A bit woozy | Ned White |
| FANZINE | Thu Jul 3, 1997 | Amateur newsletter | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| FASTANDFURRYOUS | Sun Sep 14, 2025 | 1949 short that marked the first appearance of 91- and 110-Across | Daniel Grinberg |
| FIENDING | Fri May 31, 2024 | Hankering, slangily | Aidan Deshong |
| FULLSPEEDAHEAD | Mon Jul 5, 2010 | "Go!" | Jill Denny and Jeff Chen |
| GORGEOUS | Sat Feb 4, 2023 | Dazzling | Kate Hawkins |
| HIGHRESOLUTION | Sun Feb 9, 2025 | Giddiness at completing this crossword puzzle? | Rich Katz and Jeff Chen |
| HORSESHOEFALLS | Thu Apr 13, 2000 | Tourist site at Goat Island | Matt Gaffney |
| HUMMINGBIRD | Wed Sep 24, 2008 | One of the "dumbest dumb animals," according to 60-Across | Lynn Lempel |
| ILONG | Wed Aug 31, 1994 | "_____ to Belong to You" (1939 song) | Christopher Hurt |
| KENJENNINGS | Sun Apr 29, 2007 | ... and 69-Across have affiliations with "Jeopardy!" | Henry Hook |
| KEYLIME | Fri Nov 30, 2007 | Bitter fruit | Henry Hook |
| LEECHED | Wed Oct 18, 2006 | Was a parasite | John Farmer |
| MADAMSPEAKER | Mon Feb 20, 2012 | *Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| MCINTYRE | Sun Jan 10, 1999 | Trapper John's last name | David J. Kahn |
| OUTEATEN | Sat Aug 7, 2010 | Shown up at a restaurant? | Joe Krozel |
| PLAYINGPOSSUM | Mon Oct 15, 2007 | Pretending to be dead | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| QUATERNARYAGE | Sun Jun 8, 2008 | Period in which we live | Will Nediger |
| SAILHO | Sun Feb 11, 2018 | Cry from the mizzen top | Matt Ginsberg |
| SHUTYOURPIEHOLE | Fri Oct 15, 2021 | "Put a sock in it!" | Ashton Anderson |
| STOCKTON | Fri May 30, 2003 | California gold rush town | Patrick Berry |
| SUBSTACK | Thu Nov 28, 2024 | Digital newsletter platform | Ricky J. Sirois |
| TENAFLY | Fri Jul 28, 1995 | Town east of Paramus, N.J. | Rich Norris |
| TERRYCREWS | Fri Jul 10, 2020 | "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actor who played in the N.F.L. | John Lieb |
| THIRTYMINUTES | Thu Nov 23, 2017 | Halftime show? | Howard Barkin |
| THISISFINE | Sat Nov 8, 2025 | Phrase spoken by a dog in a burning room, in a 2010s meme | Ryan Judge |
| WAREPIC | Fri Aug 20, 2021 | "Saving Private Ryan" or "Apocalypse Now" | Randolph Ross |
| WEWILLROCKYOU | Tue Jan 13, 2026 | Iconic 1977 Queen hit ... or a hint to 19-, 31- and 42-Across | Nate Hall |