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 50,346 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTITOUT | Fri Feb 28, 2003 | Do a charade | Manny Nosowsky |
| ALLENIVERSON | Sun Sep 20, 2020 | Basketball star nicknamed "The Answer" | Sam Trabucco |
| APEST | Sun Dec 2, 2012 | "Don't be ___" | Steven E. Atwood |
| AWAKED | Sun Dec 19, 2004 | Came out of sleep, old-style | Frances Hansen (1919-2004) |
| BEMOANED | Sun Jun 28, 2015 | Didn't like, and said so | Jeremy Newton |
| BYDESIGN | Wed Aug 13, 2025 | Intentionally | Jared Cappel |
| CDIMAGE | Sun Dec 19, 2010 | Clone of an optical medium's contents | Kevin G. Der |
| EUROPEANCAPITAL | Sun Jun 9, 1996 | See 23-Across | M. Gaffney |
| FACEBOOKBUTTONS | Mon Jul 13, 2015 | What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across are | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| FREEKITTENS | Mon Jan 14, 2008 | Good sign on a lawn | Robert Dillman |
| HIGHPROTEINDIET | Thu Jan 18, 2024 | Atkins, for one | Jon Michnovicz and Carl Michnovicz |
| HITTINGTHEWALL | Mon Sep 10, 2001 | Out of gas | Nancy Salomon and Karen Riekert |
| HOWAREYA | Fri Jan 24, 2014 | "'Sup?" | Ian Livengood |
| INSERVICEDAYS | Thu Feb 13, 2020 | Times when teachers go to school but students don't | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| IRONOXIDE | Mon Aug 7, 2006 | Rust | Lynn Lempel |
| JUDOMAT | Fri Aug 5, 2016 | You might be thrown on it | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JUSTADROP | Fri Jul 12, 2013 | "Not much at all for me, please" | Matt Ginsberg |
| KILLMENOW | Wed Aug 7, 2013 | *Sarcastic remark upon hearing bad news | Erik Wennstrom |
| LEGACY | Sun Dec 21, 2003 | Inheritance | Frances Hansen |
| LIGHTEN | Fri Sep 8, 1995 | Uplift | A.J. Santora |
| LUCS | Sun Nov 2, 1997 | N.B.A. center Longley and others | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| MANANASENOR | Wed Dec 29, 2010 | Procrastinating words south of the border | Patrick Merrell |
| MCGARRETT | Sat Jun 4, 2005 | Lead role in "Hawaii Five-O" | Byron Walden |
| ONTHECLOCK | Fri Sep 7, 2018 | Getting paid, say | Josh Knapp |
| OVERUSED | Wed Feb 1, 1995 | Trite | Chet Currier |
| OVERWITHHELD | Sat Feb 10, 2001 | Due a refund, in a way | Rich Norris |
| PLINKS | Sun May 16, 2010 | Xylophone sounds | Matt Ginsberg |
| PONDSCUM | Sat Apr 8, 2023 | Dirty film | Sid Sivakumar |
| POORDEAR | Sun Sep 26, 2021 | "I'm so sorry for you!" | Priyanka Sethy and Matthew Stock |
| RECOAL | Sat Sep 10, 1994 | Take on more fuel | Rand H. Burns |
| REDEVELOPED | Thu Jun 5, 2008 | Like land in urban renewal | James Sajdak |
| REMOLDS | Fri Jun 23, 1995 | Shapes again | Manny Nosowsky |
| ROOMIER | Sun Jun 12, 2011 | Less cramped | C. W. Stewart |
| TAKESTHEREINS | Sat Nov 30, 2024 | Assumes control | Oliver Goodridge and Juan Garavito |
| TAMERA | Sun May 30, 2021 | Mowry who starred alongside her twin Tia in the '90s sitcom "Sister, Sister" | Adam Wagner |
| THECLAWSCOMEOUT | Sat Nov 24, 2018 | "Things get ugly" | David Steinberg |
| THRIVED | Fri Mar 17, 2006 | Shined | John Farmer |
| TOUCHTYPES | Fri Apr 17, 2020 | Enters without looking, say | Robyn Weintraub |
| TURNEDTHEHEATON | Fri Apr 24, 2015 | Put under pressure | Joe Krozel |
| UNHIRED | Fri Mar 2, 2001 | Jobless | Manny Nosowsky |