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 50,548 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTIFICIALRESPIRATION | Sun Sep 11, 2005 | Pulmotor's purpose | Patrick Berry |
| BARMS | Thu Oct 9, 2003 | Malt liquor foams | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BEWITCHED | Sun Jan 26, 2014 | 3-Down, relatively | Daniel A. Finan |
| BJORN | Mon May 5, 2014 | Tennis's Borg | Lynn Lempel |
| BOOTTREES | Sat Jan 10, 2009 | Foot-long stretchers | Bob Klahn |
| BUBBLEWAND | Tue Jun 15, 2021 | Something a kid might blow right through | Owen Travis |
| CIVILIZE | Fri Apr 6, 2007 | School in culture | Will Nediger |
| COHERENCE | Sun Dec 5, 1999 | Babbler's lack | Joe DiPietro |
| CONTEMNED | Wed Mar 14, 2007 | Treated with disdain | Peter A. Collins |
| CONTINUA | Fri Jul 19, 2002 | Connected sets of points, in math | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DATELINES | Sat Sep 16, 2000 | Dispatch identifiers | Robert H. Wolfe |
| DESCENDED | Sun Jul 4, 2004 | Came down | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DOSSAL | Sun Jan 2, 1994 | Chancel cloth | Brian G. Tyler |
| EGOISTIC | Sun May 8, 2005 | Having "I" problems? | Jim Page |
| ENFOLDED | Fri Mar 17, 2000 | Wrapped up | Glenton Petgrave |
| EXITENMASSE | Sun Jul 23, 2006 | Trick shot that knocks the balls off a French pool table? | Fred Piscop |
| FACEDTHEMUSIC | Wed Dec 8, 2004 | Listened to a concert? | Norm Guggenbiller |
| FLUORESCE | Sun Mar 14, 2021 | Glow, in a way | Jacob Stulberg |
| FREQUENCYSHIFT | Sun Nov 3, 2024 | Doppler effect phenomenon | Sid Sivakumar |
| GUNFORHIRE | Sat May 12, 2012 | Piece offer? | Caleb Madison |
| HELISTOP | Sat Jan 29, 2022 | Certain landing pad | Andrew Ries and Caitlin Reid |
| HOMESTANDS | Sun Jun 3, 2018 | What ballplayers look forward to after playing on the road | David J. Kahn |
| INYOURWAY | Thu Nov 28, 1996 | Parents to child, part 5 | B. Klahn |
| LOSEADAY | Sat Jun 5, 2021 | Fly from Honolulu to Tokyo, say | Peter Wentz |
| MASSPRODUCED | Sun Jul 28, 2013 | Like the 116-Across | Andrew Reynolds |
| MENDFENCES | Fri Oct 30, 1998 | Re-establish good relations | Jim Page |
| MUDSLIDES | Tue Mar 26, 2002 | Malibu menaces | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| NICEGOINGGENIUS | Wed Dec 20, 2006 | Words of congratulation — NOT! | Nancy Salomon |
| NINETIMESOUTOFTEN | Sun Jun 29, 2025 | Apt clue for the circled letters | Mike Hobin |
| OUTWORK | Sat Nov 19, 2022 | Show up in labor? | Benji Goldsmith |
| REPOUR | Thu Oct 1, 1998 | Fill another teacup | Manny Nosowsky |
| RIDICULES | Sat Nov 25, 1995 | Ribs | Joe DiPietro |
| RIKSHA | Sun Mar 31, 1996 | Old Oriental vehicle: Var. | J. Savage |
| RUNNINGSCORE | Sun Apr 4, 2010 | *Tally | Bob Klahn |
| SERGEANTYORK | Mon May 22, 2006 | Gary Cooper title role | Edgar R. Fontaine |
| SMOOTHMOVEEXLAX | Fri Aug 19, 2022 | Putdown to a klutz, in dated slang | Patrick John Duggan |
| SUSHIROLL | Wed Jul 4, 2018 | Food item ordered at a bar | Freddie Cheng |
| TROYAIKMAN | Mon Dec 7, 2015 | He quarterbacked the Dallas Cowboys to three 1990s Super Bowl wins | Jason Mueller |
| TWENTYFOURHOURS | Tue Jul 12, 2022 | Approximate length of 57-Across | Karen Steinberg |
| YARDSIGN | Fri Jun 29, 2007 | Local election campaign staple | Mike Nothnagel |