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 50,474 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGESPOTS | Sun Jan 26, 2025 | Visible signs of maturity | Rich Proulx |
| AROIDS | Sun Sep 8, 1996 | Jack-in-the-pulpits, e.g. | R. H. Wolfe |
| BARISTAS | Mon Feb 24, 2020 | Workers with a daily grind? | Jacob Stulberg |
| BIRLER | Sat Feb 26, 2011 | Competitive lumberjack | Bob Peoples |
| BLANKEXPRESSION | Tue Jun 24, 2008 | Poker face | Barry C. Silk |
| CONTAINSSMALLPARTS | Sun Jan 31, 2016 | Audition caution for a movie with a cast of thousands? | Yaakov Bendavid |
| CRISISPOINT | Sun Apr 15, 2007 | Do-or-die time | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| CURATESEGG | Sat Apr 26, 2008 | Something damned with faint praise, in British lingo | Brad Wilber |
| DERON | Sun Dec 1, 2013 | Three-time N.B.A. All-Star Williams | Alan DerKazarian |
| DOESITSCALE | Thu Sep 4, 2025 | Investor's question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply "Yes!"' | Colin Ernst |
| EXPECTSTHEWORST | Tue Mar 11, 2008 | Is pessimistic | Eugene W. Sard |
| FACEPLATES | Sun Jul 31, 2005 | Surrounders of light switches | Mark Feldman |
| FAIRENOUGH | Tue Jun 6, 2017 | "Point taken" | Lisa Loeb and Doug Peterson |
| FLINTMICHIGAN | Mon Mar 22, 2021 | Birthplace of General Motors | Daniel Grinberg |
| GAGLAWS | Sat Nov 14, 2015 | Secret enforcers | Kameron Austin Collins |
| INFORMED | Sat Jun 18, 2022 | Abreast | Brooke Husic |
| KRISTIYAMAGUCHI | Sat Aug 22, 2009 | Olympic gold medalist who was a "Dancing With the Stars" champion | Karen M. Tracey |
| LARGELY | Wed Apr 29, 2015 | For the most part | Daniel Landman |
| LONGISLANDICEDTEA | Thu Dec 17, 2015 | Alcoholic drink so named because of its color, not its content | David Kwong |
| MARQUEE | Sun Sep 3, 2017 | Place for stars | Andrew Zhou |
| MUTTERER | Thu Jun 11, 1998 | One who can hardly be made out | Randall J. Hartman |
| PADRONI | Sat Feb 26, 1994 | Roles in "The Godfather" | Bob Klahn |
| PLANEGEOMETRY | Tue Dec 4, 2012 | Subject of a Euclidean treatise | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| PONZISCHEMER | Sun Jun 27, 2010 | Icon | Michael J. Doran |
| RENNETS | Fri Apr 29, 1994 | Milk-curdling agents | Randolph Ross |
| SNEAKPEEKS | Fri Aug 30, 2019 | Previews | Trent H. Evans |
| SPACEBARS | Mon Mar 13, 2023 | Longest keys on keyboards | Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen |
| STEADYWORK | Fri Sep 7, 2001 | Hobo's aversion | Manny Nosowsky |
| TCCHEN | Sat Jan 10, 2015 | Scorer of the first double eagle in U.S. Open history, 1985 | Joe Krozel |
| TERNI | Sun May 27, 2018 | Italian city where St. Valentine was born | Andrew Chaikin |
| THEMARCHKING | Fri Jul 4, 2008 | Sobriquet for 28-Across | John Underwood |
| THENOTORIOUSBIG | Sat Nov 21, 2015 | "Mo Money Mo Problems" rapper | Natan Last |
| THETIMEWARP | Sat Sep 22, 2018 | Dance in which "you bring your knees in tight" | Sam Trabucco |
| TIKIBARS | Sun Jun 11, 2023 | Beachside watering holes | Sam Ezersky |
| TOFUSCRAMBLE | Mon Mar 20, 2023 | Vegan version of a classic brunch dish | Adam Vincent |
| TSKTSKED | Wed Feb 19, 2025 | Orally admonished | Joe Deeney |
| ULSTERMAN | Sat Dec 24, 1994 | Northern Irelander | John Stanley |
| UNTRACED | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | Not followed | Joe DiPietro |
| USVISAS | Sat Mar 19, 2022 | They're issued by the Bureau of Consular Affairs | Ryan McCarty |
| YELLOWBELLIED | Mon Sep 18, 2017 | Deplorably cowardly | Tom McCoy |