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 50,507 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGAINANDAGAIN | Sun Aug 1, 1999 | Two good N.F.L. plays? | Randolph Ross |
| ALLOYED | Sun Feb 7, 2010 | Impure | Patrick Berry |
| AWFULNESS | Sat Jun 17, 1995 | Enormity | Frank A. Longo |
| BEIGNETS | Sun Nov 6, 2022 | Fried pastries popular in New Orleans | Michael Lieberman |
| BIVALVE | Thu Nov 20, 1997 | Oyster, e.g. | Raymond Hamel |
| CAWDOR | Tue Apr 7, 1998 | Where Duncan was done in | Randy Sowell |
| CHILLIN | Mon Apr 12, 2021 | Doin' nothin' | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| CHIVAS | Sun Nov 29, 2020 | ___ Regal, big name in Scotch | Eric Berlin |
| CRIMEPREVENTION | Fri Nov 28, 2008 | Goal of a neighborhood watch | Joe Krozel |
| CUTAWAYGAG | Fri Apr 28, 2023 | Sitcom joke involving a change in setting | Malaika Handa and Erik Agard |
| EPICPOETRY | Fri Nov 30, 2018 | Homer's specialty | Robyn Weintraub |
| FIVESTORYWALKUP | Tue Nov 7, 2000 | First residence (option 2) | David Levinson Wilk |
| GARYPLAYER | Sun Mar 27, 1994 | Fitting name for a golfer | Jeanette K. Brill |
| GOMERS | Sat Sep 26, 1998 | Tediously stupid persons, in slang | Jerry Ferguson |
| GOVERNMENTBONDS | Wed Dec 16, 2020 | Treasury notes ... or what the two sides of 17-, 23-, 37- and 52-Across are joined with? | Ed Salners and Alex Eaton-Salners |
| HANKSNOW | Sun May 11, 2025 | "I've Been Everywhere" singer in the Country Music Hall of Fame | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HARASSING | Sat Jun 14, 1997 | On one's case | A. J. Santora |
| JAMESBEARD | Mon Dec 23, 2002 | Popular cookbook author | Lisa Bunker |
| LACONIA | Tue Apr 19, 1994 | Sparta was its capital | Bob Sefick |
| LEFTTOWN | Fri Oct 22, 2021 | Got out of Dodge, say | Robyn Weintraub |
| LIGHTTIMER | Fri Dec 27, 2024 | Antiburglary device | Jem Burch |
| LONGTONS | Wed Feb 17, 2010 | 2,240-pound units | Elizabeth A. Long |
| MILITARYBRATS | Mon Sep 4, 2017 | Children of armed forces personnel, slangily | Tracy Gray |
| MIZZENS | Sun Aug 22, 2021 | Aftmost masts on ships | Stephen McCarthy |
| NIMBLEST | Fri Nov 28, 2003 | Least lumbering | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| NOTEBOOK | Thu Mar 20, 2003 | Memoranda keeper | Manny Nosowsky |
| OVERTON | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | Tennessee county named for a jurist who co-founded Memphis | Joel Kaplow |
| PADRONES | Fri Aug 12, 2005 | Bosses | Manny Nosowsky |
| PECULIAR | Fri Mar 30, 2012 | Funny | Joe Krozel |
| PONTLEVEQUE | Mon Dec 30, 2013 | Creamy French cheese | David Steinberg |
| RANDOWN | Sun Jun 12, 1994 | Stopped ticking, as a clock | Frances Hansen |
| RATATOUILLE | Wed Jul 4, 2012 | 2007 | Caleb Madison |
| RICHARDII | Sun May 22, 1994 | Henry Bolingbroke's victim | Randolph Ross |
| SELLSTOCKS | Mon Sep 21, 2015 | Lighten one's portfolio, say | Bruce Haight |
| SNR | Sat Jul 13, 1996 | The elder: Abbr. | Eli Wesoff |
| STRONGASSTEEL | Mon May 1, 2006 | Supertough | Mike Torch |
| TREMBLED | Mon Feb 9, 1998 | Shivered | Robert Dillman |
| URLHIJACKING | Sun Jan 8, 2017 | Underhanded use of someone else's domain name | Peter Broda and Erik Agard |
| USCENSUS | Sat Mar 30, 2019 | The 23rd one took place in 2010 | Greg Johnson |
| VWBUG | Sun Dec 8, 2019 | Disney's Herbie, for one | Emily Carroll |