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 50,609 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIENWORLD | Mon Mar 18, 2024 | Extraterrestrial's home, to us | Trent H. Evans |
| BABYGROOT | Fri Jan 30, 2026 | Small branch of Marvel Comics? | Robyn Weintraub |
| BEAUTYMARK | Wed Jul 18, 2018 | Mole | David Steinberg |
| BETROTHS | Wed Jan 9, 2008 | Gets engaged to, old-style | John Farmer |
| BUMMEDAROUND | Tue Jun 14, 2011 | Mostly idled | Doug Peterson and Angela Olson Halsted |
| CALLTHECOPS | Sun Jul 3, 2005 | "Get help!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CHIMING | Wed Jan 9, 2019 | Sounding like Big Ben | Trenton Charlson |
| COLDFISH | Tue Sep 18, 2001 | Aloof sort | Jay Livingston |
| DRACOS | Tue Apr 16, 2013 | "Harry Potter" antagonist and namesakes | Peter Broda |
| EDMUNDMUSKIE | Thu Dec 14, 2000 | Hubert Humphrey's running mate, 1968 | Peter Gordon |
| ETHNICVOTE | Fri Nov 23, 2007 | What someone might win after stumping a cultural group? | Paula Gamache |
| EVILOMENS | Sun Oct 20, 2019 | Dark forebodings | Natan Last |
| FINISHAHEADOFSCHEDULE | Sun Sep 13, 2015 | COMPLETE PLAN | Joe DiPietro |
| FIREBOX | Sun Mar 13, 2011 | Locomotive furnace | Patrick Berry |
| GRANDMERE | Wed Nov 12, 2014 | Nanette's nana | Daniel Landman |
| HEYERDAHL | Sun Aug 26, 2007 | Noted explorer of Polynesia | Andrew M. Greene and Craig Kasper |
| HOLDITASEC | Fri Jun 21, 2024 | "Hang on!" | Billy Bratton |
| INEEDYOU | Thu Nov 30, 2006 | "Help!" song | Patrick Merrell |
| LIFEONTHERUN | Wed Jul 5, 2017 | Travel edition of a classic board game? | Jake Halperin |
| LUCRECE | Sun Feb 11, 2007 | Shakespeare's "The Rape of ___" | Mark Feldman |
| MACULA | Tue Nov 11, 2014 | Eye part subject to degeneration | James Mulhern |
| MCADAM | Sun Mar 18, 2012 | Scottish inventor and road builder John Loudon ___ | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| MERIMEE | Sat Nov 22, 2008 | Writer whose novella "Carmen" is the basis of Bizet's opera | Frank Longo |
| OUTOFLUCK | Mon Jan 10, 2000 | Unfortunate | John Greenman |
| PHEWS | Sat Oct 10, 2015 | Close-call cries | Roland Huget |
| PINOTGRIGIO | Mon Oct 1, 2001 | See 40-Across | Janice M. Putney |
| PROCESSEDCHEESE | Fri Aug 28, 1998 | Melt material | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| REMOVEALLTRACES | Fri Jun 5, 2009 | 30-Down thoroughly | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| REPEALING | Tue Mar 9, 1999 | Undoing an act | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| RIGAN | Fri Dec 9, 1994 | Many a Lett | Matt Gaffney |
| ROCKNROLL | Mon Oct 20, 2025 | Music genre that Joan Jett "loves" | Adam Aaronson |
| RUBSON | Thu Feb 10, 2022 | Applies, as lotion | August Miller |
| SCREENCAP | Sat May 14, 2022 | Part of many a software demo, informally | Ada Nicolle |
| SEWARDSFOLLY | Tue Jul 10, 2001 | Alaska | Patrick Merrell |
| SIRANTHONYHOPKINS | Sun Jul 20, 2008 | Best Actor of 1991 | Barry C. Silk |
| SOUTHPAW | Mon Mar 19, 2001 | Lefty | Peter Gordon |
| SYRIAC | Wed Dec 25, 2013 | Ancient Mideast language | Jacob Stulberg |
| TELO | Sat Jul 27, 1996 | End: Prefix | F. Longo |
| VOTEDOWN | Wed Sep 13, 2006 | Defeat democratically | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| WERESAVED | Sun Jan 7, 2024 | Exclamation after a rescue | Michael Schlossberg |