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 50,389 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APOLOOHNO | Fri Apr 20, 2018 | Winner of eight Winter Olympics medals in the 2000s | Joel Fagliano |
| ATTITUDES | Sat Nov 20, 1999 | Motivation affecters | A. J. Santora |
| BELIEVEITORNOT | Mon Nov 2, 2009 | Ripley catchphrase that's apropos to 20-, 34- and 42-Across | Andrea Carla Michaels and Kent Clayton |
| BIOPSY | Tue Aug 20, 2024 | Tissue sample test | Sam Buchbinder |
| BOBFLY | Sun Sep 9, 2012 | Fishing line attachment | Kevin G. Der |
| BRASSERA | Fri Nov 1, 2013 | Pre-W.W. I in automotive history | Brad Wilber |
| BURGERS | Sat Jul 15, 1995 | Fast food staple | Rand H. Burns |
| DENNEHY | Thu Nov 19, 2009 | Brian of "First Blood" | Tyler Hinman and Jeremy Horwitz |
| DOHAQATAR | Sat Jun 9, 2012 | Al Jazeera locale | David Quarfoot |
| DUTCHCHEESE | Sun Jul 25, 1999 | PAWS | Charles M. Deber |
| FAIRENOUGH | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | "Point taken" | Lisa Loeb and Doug Peterson |
| FERNDALE | Thu Oct 4, 2007 | Detroit suburb named for the plants the area was once overgrown with | Sheldon Benardo |
| FINISHINGSECOND | Tue Nov 8, 2005 | Placing (and a hint to the first words of 17-, 24-, 47- and 60-Across) | Gail Grabowski and Nancy Salomon |
| FIRSTLOOK | Thu Dec 19, 2019 | Unveiling | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| FORCEFEED | Sat May 21, 2016 | Stuff down the throat of | Jason Flinn |
| GCHORDS | Sat May 18, 2019 | Some guitar basics | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| HAMMIEST | Sun Dec 31, 2006 | Most broad? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| HARLOT | Sat Nov 25, 1995 | Tart | Joe DiPietro |
| HEELKICKS | Tue Dec 10, 2024 | Taekwondo moves done with an outstretched leg | Brian Callahan and Geoffrey Schorkopf |
| HIGHSPIRITS | Thu Aug 4, 2022 | Gaiety | Ella Dershowitz |
| HOMEWORK | Thu Jun 25, 1998 | Page of math problems, say | Stanley B. Whitten |
| HORNBY | Tue Nov 15, 2011 | English novelist Nick who wrote "About a Boy" | Gareth Bain |
| IMMATURE | Sun Aug 10, 1997 | GREEN | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| JACKMAN | Sun Jul 29, 2007 | Actor Hugh of "X-Men" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JAMESIV | Sun Jul 30, 2017 | Last Scottish king to die in battle | Isaac Mizrahi and David J. Kahn |
| JMSYNGE | Sat Sep 11, 2010 | Playwright who co-founded the Abbey Theatre | Brad Wilber |
| LETNOT | Sat Oct 9, 2010 | "___ your hearts faint": Deuteronomy 20:3 | Joe Krozel |
| LIVEBY | Thu Nov 8, 2018 | Follow, as a moral code | Sam Ezersky |
| MISSHAPE | Thu Dec 4, 2008 | Deform | Barry C. Silk |
| OILOFOLAY | Wed Jun 1, 2011 | "Love the skin you're in" sloganeer, once | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| PICKYEATER | Fri Jan 29, 2021 | Unlikely member of the "clean-plate club" | Robyn Weintraub |
| RESTAURATEURS | Fri Jul 30, 1999 | James Beard Award nominees | John Wolting |
| RINGALARMBELLS | Tue Feb 15, 2022 | Security alerts at a boxing match? | Claire Rimkus |
| SACLIKE | Sat Nov 27, 1999 | Resembling a spore | Patrick D. Berry |
| SOCRATICS | Sat Mar 13, 2010 | Plato and others | Tyler Hinman and Byron Walden |
| STGERARD | Sat Aug 16, 2008 | Patron of pregnant women | Byron Walden |
| WELSHES | Tue May 17, 1994 | Reneges | Harvey Estes |
| WENTOUTONALIMB | Sat Sep 18, 2021 | Really risked it | Ryan McCarty |
| WHATABEAST | Sat Dec 2, 2023 | Statement upon witnessing an impressive feat | Royce Ferguson |
| WHITESTAR | Thu Oct 14, 2010 | Owner of the Titanic | Jim Hilger |