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 50,617 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFGHANIS | Fri Sep 2, 2011 | Kandahar cash | Tim Croce |
| AGONS | Thu May 11, 1995 | Greek contests | Wayne Robert Williams |
| APPOSING | Wed Jun 21, 1995 | Next-door | Dorothea E. Shipp |
| AQUITAINE | Sat Dec 27, 2025 | Historical region of southwestern France | Katie Hoody |
| BEESEASON | Sat Oct 7, 2017 | 2005 film starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche | Byron Walden |
| BEFOOL | Sun Nov 15, 2009 | Hoodwink | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BLEEPOUT | Thu Apr 2, 2015 | Censor | Joe Krozel and Timothy Polin |
| CHARTERER | Sun Jun 7, 1998 | Tour operator, at times | Randolph Ross |
| DECL | Fri Jan 9, 1998 | Latin grammar task: Abbr. | Manny Nosowsky |
| DIGNIFY | Wed Jun 17, 2020 | Give distinction to | Daniel Raymon |
| DIGUPDIRT | Sat Oct 31, 2015 | Look to do some character assassination | Peter Wentz |
| DIPSWITCHES | Sun Oct 28, 2001 | IPD DPI IDP | Michael Ashley |
| EMPERORHIROHITO | Sat Jan 24, 1998 | He sat on the Chrysanthemum Throne for 62 years | Randolph Ross |
| ESSAYQUESTION | Thu Aug 22, 2024 | "SAY WHAT?" | Brad Wiegmann |
| ETAMESON | Fri Mar 22, 2013 | Electrically neutral subatomic particle | Tim Croce |
| FORWARDHO | Thu Feb 2, 2017 | Wagon train cry [you can relax ...] | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| GAMEMISCONDUCT | Sun Sep 30, 2007 | *Ice hockey penalty | Kelsey Blakley |
| GENEFLOW | Fri Jul 6, 2007 | Result of cross-fertilization within a population | Pete Mitchell |
| GETTINGMARRIED | Tue Oct 27, 2020 | Apt phrase that uses just the letters of GRAND TIME | Luci Bresette and David Steinberg |
| HONDAACCORD | Mon Sep 12, 2022 | First car from a Japanese manufacturer to be made in the U.S. (1982) | Michael Lieberman |
| HUMBUGGED | Thu Oct 15, 2015 | Flimflammed | Kevin G. Der |
| KARLMALDEN | Fri Oct 24, 2008 | Warden player in "Birdman of Alcatraz" | Frederick J. Healy |
| MATHSYMBOL | Thu Sep 29, 2011 | [See blurb] | Ben Fish |
| MINGO | Wed Aug 10, 2011 | Iroquoian people | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| OPENSINON | Thu Apr 26, 2018 | Leads to, as one room to another | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| PERVADED | Sat Sep 17, 1994 | Saturated | Rich Norris |
| REDDOGS | Thu May 6, 2021 | Certain Miller beers | Ed Sessa |
| RIGHTANDWRONG | Sun Oct 28, 2018 | Growth ring | Erik Agard |
| ROUNDHOLES | Sun Apr 12, 2009 | See 65-Across | Eric Berlin |
| SALLOWS | Fri Jun 2, 1995 | Turns yellow | Frank A. Longo |
| SANDUSKY | Sun Feb 11, 2024 | Ohio home to Cedar Point, the "Roller Coaster Capital of the World" | Peter Koetters |
| SORDIDTALE | Sun Oct 22, 2023 | Unsavory relation? | Robert Ryan |
| SPECIALFORCES | Mon Sep 6, 2010 | Green Berets | Randall J. Hartman |
| STRESSLESSNESS | Tue Jan 26, 2021 | *State that many people want to get to on vacation? | Peter Gordon |
| TALKA | Sun Aug 13, 2006 | ___ blue streak | Derrick Niederman |
| THEBIGSHORT | Fri Dec 14, 2012 | 2010 best seller by Michael Lewis | Paula Gamache |
| THERATPACK | Wed Nov 12, 2008 | Group with members hidden in 17-, 24- and 46-Across | Peter A. Collins |
| TONYSNOW | Wed Feb 23, 2011 | Press secretary under George W. Bush | Barry C. Silk |
| TUFFETS | Sat May 24, 2003 | Low seats | Rich Norris |
| WEIL | Sun Feb 23, 1997 | "On Broadway" co-writer Cynthia | Nancy Nicholson Joline |