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 50,463 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMYGROUPS | Sat Mar 3, 2012 | Field marshals' commands | Byron Walden |
| BERKELEY | Thu Jan 27, 2005 | City whose newspaper is the Daily Planet | Jim Hyres |
| BERTRAND | Sun Jun 23, 1996 | French director Tavernier | F. Hansen |
| BONDINVESTMENTS | Sun Jun 29, 2003 | Secret agent disguised as a clergyman? | Rich Norris |
| BUSYASABEE | Wed May 28, 2014 | Working away | Tim Croce |
| CHEYENNEMOUNTAIN | Sun Aug 10, 2025 | ... something big and rocky with a Space Force base in it | Adam Wagner and Chandi Deitmer |
| COORSFIELD | Tue Apr 2, 1996 | Where the Rockies play | G. E. Paul |
| CUTINS | Thu Nov 23, 2023 | Movie shots that take a closer look | Vasu Seralathan |
| DEFICIENT | Sun Jan 4, 1998 | Lacking | Mark Danna |
| EASTERCANDY | Sat Aug 9, 2025 | Rabbit food? | Aidan Deshong and Akshay Seetharam |
| FEDOR | Wed May 21, 1997 | Novelist Dostoyevsky: Var. | John D. Leavy |
| FOGYISH | Thu Mar 23, 2000 | Like a stick-in-the-mud | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| GROUPDATES | Sat Dec 16, 2023 | Situations involving multiple romantic partners | Garrett Chalfin |
| HEGUMEN | Tue Feb 15, 1994 | Monastery head | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| IMBUYING | Fri Sep 15, 2017 | "It's on me" | Damon Gulczynski |
| IMPECUNIOUS | Tue Feb 19, 2019 | Lacking money | David Alfred Bywaters |
| JUSTDANDY | Sun Nov 1, 2009 | Peachy-keen | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| LADYNANCYASTOR | Mon Aug 20, 2012 | First woman to sit in the British House of Commons | Robert Cirillo |
| LAMPLIT | Fri Dec 9, 1994 | Like the streets of Holmesian London | Matt Gaffney |
| LOOKSEES | Fri Feb 5, 2010 | Quick surveys | Joe Krozel |
| MORTONS | Sun Dec 22, 2019 | Famed Chicago steakhouse | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| NICKJR | Sun Nov 6, 2005 | Cable channel for kids | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ONLYU | Wed Jan 15, 2014 | 1955 hit for the Platters | Bernice Gordon |
| OPPOSABLE | Fri Feb 22, 2002 | Subject to being challenged | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ORSERS | Wed Oct 18, 1995 | Skater Brian and family | Nancy S. Ross |
| OWNAGUN | Mon Aug 4, 2014 | Exercise one's right under the Second Amendment | Joel Fagliano |
| PACHELBEL | Thu Nov 10, 2005 | Canon composer | Lee Glickstein and Craig Kasper |
| PUTSONACLINIC | Sun Mar 8, 2020 | Shows how it's done | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| REMAINANONYMOUS | Fri Dec 20, 2024 | Refuse to sign one's work, say | Henry Josephson |
| RESILIENCE | Fri Feb 20, 2004 | Buoyancy | Bob Peoples |
| RUNTY | Fri Mar 28, 2003 | Pint-sized | Cathy Millhauser |
| SITNEXTTO | Sat Feb 21, 1998 | Accompany, as on a train | Richard Hughes |
| TALKSOVER | Thu Mar 2, 1995 | Discusses | Raymond Hamel |
| THREEPOINTER | Tue Jan 7, 2020 | Long jumper, in hoops | Ross Trudeau |
| THUMBNAILS | Tue Jun 20, 2023 | Compact images on a desktop | Aimee Lucido |
| TOLLING | Thu May 3, 2001 | Sexton's duty | Trip Payne |
| USNR | Sun Apr 2, 2017 | Natl. Guard counterpart | Jerry Miccolis |
| WHOSOEVER | Thu Oct 28, 1999 | Legalistic pronoun | Patrick D. Berry |
| WILBURWRIGHT | Mon May 26, 2003 | Flier at Kitty Hawk | Lynn Lempel |
| WOODFURNACE | Sat Mar 9, 2013 | One stoked to provide warmth | David Steinberg and Barry C. Silk |