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 50,423 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATTHEALTAR | Fri May 17, 2019 | Bad way to be left | Adam Fromm |
| BACKTOYOU | Sun Aug 7, 2016 | "Coming up, a pistol dueler tells us his stance. Now ___" | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| BLESSING | Sun May 24, 2009 | Grace, basically | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BNAIBRITH | Wed Jul 3, 2013 | Group with two apostrophes in its name | Pamela Klawitter |
| BRUSHASIDE | Fri Mar 14, 2025 | Coolly disregard | Brandon Koppy |
| CCIV | Sun May 18, 2014 | Early third-century year | Joe DiPietro |
| CHARLESLAMB | Tue Apr 16, 2024 | *English essayist who wrote "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once" [ram] | Adam Vincent |
| CHARLOTTERUSSES | Fri Jan 9, 1998 | Rich desserts | Manny Nosowsky |
| COCKTAILSAUCE | Wed Dec 10, 2003 | Where shrimp take a dip | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| COUNSELED | Thu Sep 21, 2023 | Gave advice | Dan Caprera |
| CWM | Thu Sep 16, 1999 | Welsh valley | Bill Ballard |
| DELIVERANADDRESS | Sun Feb 1, 1998 | "At 3 P.M. President Clinton will ___..." | Merl Reagle |
| DESIS | Wed Jul 20, 2011 | Lucy's husband and son | Peter A. Collins |
| DOUBLESTOPS | Thu Apr 20, 1995 | Plays two notes simultaneously | Raymond Hamel |
| ENGLISHTRIFLE | Tue Sep 20, 2016 | Layers of sherry-soaked torte, homemade custard and fruit served chilled in a giant stem glass | Tracy Bennett |
| EURASIANS | Fri Jan 5, 1996 | Continental hybrids | R. Ross |
| FORALLMANKIND | Tue Jul 21, 2009 | See 45-Across | Donna S. Levin |
| GETSINSIDE | Fri Sep 29, 2023 | Seeks shelter | Malaika Handa |
| HANDHOLD | Wed Jun 19, 2024 | Give + take | Brad Wiegmann |
| HANDMIX | Tue Aug 7, 2012 | Use a whisk on | Mike Buckley |
| HERECOMESTHEGROOM | Sun May 18, 1997 | 1951 film | Frances Hansen |
| ICESHOWS | Fri May 6, 2022 | Skating expos | Aaron Ullman |
| IMBRUES | Sat Apr 17, 2010 | Stains | Tim Croce |
| IMPOSESON | Sun Dec 5, 2021 | Inconveniences | Chase Dittrich and Jeff Chen |
| MAKESANEMPTYPROMISE | Thu Jul 7, 2005 | Pledges, but not really | David Quarfoot |
| MAUMET | Wed Feb 28, 2001 | Numbskull, to a Brit | A. J. Santora |
| MIDTERMS | Tue Mar 17, 2015 | Some tests ... or what's found literally in 17-, 24-, 30-, 39- and 44-Across | David Phillips |
| NEWBORNS | Thu Oct 10, 1996 | Nursery arrivals | D. J. Kahn |
| PAULDIRAC | Wed Dec 30, 2015 | Physics Nobelist who pioneered in quantum mechanics | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| PEAKSEASON | Mon Jul 8, 2024 | Busiest time to travel | Daniel Bodily and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| PROXIES | Sat Apr 28, 2018 | Stand-ins | Andrew Kingsley and John Lieb |
| PYRAMIDSCHEMES | Fri Aug 4, 1995 | Financial connivances | Chuck Deodene |
| RESEAU | Sun Nov 16, 2008 | Meshed foundation in lace | Merl Reagle |
| RISA | Sat Nov 19, 2005 | Laughter, in La Mancha | Byron Walden |
| SANCTIONING | Sat Aug 7, 1999 | Making binding | Trip Payne |
| SLOTTING | Fri Mar 2, 2018 | Programming manager's specialty | Rachel Maddow and Joe DiPietro |
| SYLVIASYMS | Tue Dec 4, 2018 | Nightclub singer who was given the nickname "Buddha" by Frank Sinatra | Peter Gordon |
| TREKKER | Thu Feb 25, 1999 | One on a long walk | Jim Page |
| WEHAVETOMAKETHISQUICK | Sun Aug 3, 2025 | "Our window is closing for escape w-elocity!," as [circled letters] might say | Jeremy Newton |
| WITHOUTEXCEPTION | Thu Nov 19, 1998 | Always, to a cowboy? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |