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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABOUTFACED | Sat Oct 19, 2024 | Did a 180 | August Miller |
| AKNOT | Wed Oct 14, 2020 | Tied in ___ | Rich Proulx |
| AMYSCHUMER | Mon May 22, 2023 | Stand-up comedian with a self-titled sketch show | Đặng Quang Thắng |
| BUTTERPAT | Fri Apr 23, 1999 | Square in a restaurant | Harvey Estes |
| CALLERS | Sun Jun 16, 1996 | Talk-show features | N. N. Joline |
| CHERVIL | Sat Mar 17, 2001 | Aromatic herb used in soups and salads | Rich Norris |
| DJSETS | Tue Jul 5, 2016 | Music mixes at a nightclub | Jules Markey |
| EREISAWELBA | Tue Jul 8, 2008 | End of a Napoleonic palindrome | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| FAILEDSOMETESTS | Sun Aug 4, 2013 | The quiz-grading machine ... | Steven Ginzburg |
| FARMANIMAL | Wed Jun 18, 2003 | Ox or pig | Alan Arbesfeld |
| FEEDBIN | Sat Feb 21, 2009 | Trough | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| GINGHAMS | Mon May 13, 2002 | Cotton fabrics | Patrick Merrell |
| GOLDMEDALFLOUR | Mon Jul 16, 2012 | General Mills baking product | Randall J. Hartman |
| GOTASHOT | Tue May 9, 2017 | Was vaccinated | Peter A. Collins |
| HOLIERTHANTHOU | Mon Jun 21, 2021 | Sanctimonious | Jacob Stulberg |
| IMBUYING | Fri Sep 15, 2017 | "It's on me" | Damon Gulczynski |
| IMPELLED | Sat Oct 26, 2019 | Drove | Sam Trabucco |
| KINGED | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | Like a double-decker checker | Derrick Niederman |
| LANDRU | Sun May 6, 2007 | French Bluebeard | Charles M. Deber |
| LAUNCHER | Sun Oct 26, 2014 | Part of many a silo | Caleb Emmons |
| LIONHUNTER | Wed Jun 9, 2021 | Hercules on his first labor, or Hemingway on safari | Byron Walden |
| MASCARACASE | Thu Nov 3, 2005 | Makeup carrier | Byron Walden |
| MATTY | Sat Jun 27, 2015 | One of Jesus' brothers, in baseball | Tim Croce |
| MURDOCH | Sat Jan 18, 2014 | "A Severed Head" novelist, 1961 | David Steinberg |
| OKAYIGIVE | Fri Feb 28, 2025 | "Fine, just tell me" | Michael Lieberman |
| OPTOMETRIST | Sun Jun 4, 1995 | Pupil watcher | Bryant White |
| PLAYEDOVER | Sat Sep 17, 2005 | Reran | Rich Norris |
| PROFITEERING | Sun Feb 11, 2018 | Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi? | Matt Ginsberg |
| SHALOMMEIRTOWER | Mon Jul 10, 2017 | Tel Aviv skyscraper that was the first to be built in the Mideast | Timothy Polin |
| SHARKTEETH | Tue Oct 12, 2004 | Items on some necklaces | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SOUTHERNER | Thu Oct 30, 2025 | Washington, Jefferson or Madison | Howard Neuthaler |
| TENNESSEEWALTZ | Sun Oct 14, 2007 | 1950 #1 hit for Patti Page | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| THEWRIGHTBROTHERS | Thu May 26, 2011 | Newsmakers of 1903 | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| TOPSTHELIST | Tue Nov 30, 2010 | Is ranked #1 | Kristian House |
| TRUNKSHOW | Tue May 14, 2024 | Traveling fashion sale featuring the work of a specific designer | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| TRYHARDS | Mon Jul 28, 2014 | Those who put a lot of effort into social climbing, in modern lingo | Tom McCoy |
| UNLIMBER | Sat Jul 31, 1999 | Stiff | Fred Piscop |
| WAITEDON | Tue Aug 29, 1995 | Served at a restaurant | John R. Conrad |
| WATEROAK | Sat Oct 31, 2009 | Tree of Southeastern swamplands | Robert H. Wolfe |
| WHATEVERITTAKES | Fri May 16, 2014 | At any price | Martin Ashwood-Smith |