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 50,477 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADDINSULTTOINJURY | Sun Dec 2, 2018 | Wound + dis | Paul Coulter |
| ARMAGEDDONCHESS | Sat Jun 7, 2025 | Board game variant used as a last-resort tiebreaker | Blake Slonecker |
| ASIANGAMES | Fri Mar 16, 2012 | Quadrennial sporting event | Joel Fagliano |
| BARESITALL | Sun Jan 5, 2025 | Reveals everything | Kareem Ayas |
| BLUECOLLAR | Mon Feb 28, 1994 | Like factory workers | Sidney L. Robbins |
| CATCHWORD | Fri Jan 24, 1997 | "Cowabunga!" or "23 skiddoo" | D. J. Kahn |
| CATHEDRALS | Fri Aug 11, 2006 | They keep large flocks | Patrick Merrell |
| CATION | Sun Dec 26, 2010 | Charged particle | Darin McDaniel |
| DECREASED | Wed Jun 24, 1998 | Ironed? | Richard Silvestri |
| DOITYOURSELFER | Tue Oct 17, 2000 | One who's handy around the house | Peter Gordon |
| DOWNTHEDRAIN | Wed May 24, 2017 | Wasted, to a plumber? | Michael Hawkins |
| EDDIEBAUER | Thu Jul 13, 2023 | J.Crew competitor | Hanh Huynh |
| ELBOWING | Fri Apr 5, 1996 | Hockey taboo | J. Page |
| EQUERRY | Fri Jun 30, 2006 | Royal aide in charge of horses | Manny Nosowsky |
| ESTEEMABLE | Sat Oct 15, 1994 | Worthy | Randolph Ross |
| FINIAL | Sat Jun 14, 2014 | Ornament at the top of a spire | Alex Vratsanos |
| FIREDEPT | Thu Aug 15, 2002 | Grp. at a station | Manny Nosowsky |
| FRANKLOESSER | Tue Dec 9, 2003 | "Guys and Dolls" composer | Alan Arbesfeld |
| GAVOT | Fri Mar 8, 1996 | Dance of France: Var. | R. Ross |
| HARVEYDENT | Tue Jul 31, 2012 | Gotham district attorney who becomes Batman's nemesis Two-Face | Michael Sharp |
| HAWKONESWARES | Tue Feb 24, 2009 | Be a street peddler | Stephen Edward Anderson |
| HUMANITY | Thu Dec 13, 2018 | What Gandhi once likened to an ocean | John Westwig |
| ITSTINKS | Sat Apr 6, 2024 | "Zero stars" | Byron Walden |
| JOLLYGOODFELLOW | Mon Feb 27, 1995 | Popular sort | Sidney L. Robbins |
| KOY | Wed Sep 17, 2025 | Comedian Jo | Jackson Matz |
| LAIDSIEGE | Fri Sep 17, 2021 | Surrounded and attacked, with "to" | Matthew Stock |
| LARGECAP | Sat Oct 15, 2005 | Fund designation | Paula Gamache |
| MILKOFHUMANKINDNESS | Sun Feb 2, 2014 | Compassion, figuratively | Dick Shlakman and Jeff Chen |
| MIZZENS | Sun Aug 22, 2021 | Aftmost masts on ships | Stephen McCarthy |
| NICENESS | Tue Jul 16, 1996 | Congeniality | R. Hamel |
| NUCOR | Fri Dec 20, 2019 | Largest steel producer in the U.S. | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PAIROFPANTS | Sun Aug 25, 2024 | "Hubba, hubba!"? | John Kugelman |
| PEDIATRIC | Sat Aug 31, 2024 | Childish? | Sam Ezersky |
| QUACKERY | Thu Jan 26, 2006 | Charlatan's work | Manny Nosowsky |
| SHAWTY | Sat Dec 24, 2016 | Attractive young woman, in rap slang | David Steinberg |
| SITUNDER | Sat Sep 24, 2011 | Attend the lectures of | Jeremy Horwitz |
| TIESCORES | Sun Dec 8, 1996 | One-one and two-two | A. J. Santora |
| TOTALITARIANISM | Fri Oct 21, 2016 | "1984" concern | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| WEAREFREEATLAST | Mon Jan 20, 2014 | Famous closing words of the 49-Across speech | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| WROTEITDOWNFROMMEMORY | Sun Jan 22, 2006 | After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... | George Barany and Michael Shteyman |