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 50,558 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLIGATORPEARS | Sat Nov 28, 1998 | Avocados | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| BARSTHEDOOR | Thu Jan 22, 2004 | Padlocks, say | Roy Leban |
| BEYONDALLDOUBT | Sun Apr 28, 2019 | BAD words? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BIDENS | Sun Sep 30, 2012 | Vice-presidential family | Elayne Cantor and Victor Fleming |
| CAMPAIGNCHAIR | Sun Dec 10, 2023 | The weary general sat in his ... | Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen |
| CHARGEAFLATFEE | Thu Mar 9, 1995 | Be evenhanded to clients | Alex Vaughn |
| CHILIPOWDER | Wed May 17, 2006 | 3/4 teaspoon | Patrick Blindauer |
| COMETHIRD | Sun Jun 7, 2009 | Finish last on "Jeopardy!" | Jeremy Newton |
| COWCOLLEGE | Mon Sep 18, 2000 | Where Elsie gets educated? | Sherry O. Blackard and Lyell Rodieck |
| CRAFTFAIR | Sat Jul 14, 2012 | Destination for many a quilter | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| FATUI | Sun Jul 3, 1994 | Ignes ___ (marsh lights) | A.J. Santora |
| GERMINATES | Sat Jan 17, 2004 | Sprouts | Patrick Berry |
| GROWINGCONCERN | Sun Jul 4, 2021 | Farmer's emotion during a dry season? | Howard Barkin |
| GRUELING | Sun May 10, 2015 | Arduous | Jacob Stulberg |
| GUMPS | Sun Nov 5, 1995 | Forrest's folks | Dean Niles |
| HOMEBREWER | Sat Jul 12, 2025 | One might start fermenting in the kitchen | Katie Hoody |
| INKSTONE | Sat Mar 26, 2016 | Calligrapher's grinding mortar | Damon Gulczynski |
| JESUSALOU | Fri May 1, 2015 | Youngest of a baseball trio | David Steinberg |
| MODOC | Tue Oct 29, 1996 | Oregon Indian | R. J. Hartman |
| NEILYOUNG | Mon May 8, 2017 | Singer with the 1972 hit "Heart of Gold" | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| NEODADAIST | Sat Aug 25, 2018 | Yoko Ono, artistically, in the 1960s | Sam Ezersky |
| OILON | Sun Aug 31, 1997 | Pour ___ troubled waters | David J. Kahn |
| ORURO | Fri Sep 9, 1994 | Former capital of Bolivia | Bob Klahn |
| OUTERRANKS | Wed Dec 6, 2006 | Chessboard extremities | Levi Denham |
| REDSUITS | Wed Jun 8, 2005 | Hearts and diamonds | Richard Chisholm |
| RUBRICS | Fri Sep 30, 2005 | Manuscript headings | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SEESEYETOEYE | Sun Mar 3, 2002 | Agrees (with) | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SHEDAFEWPOUNDS | Mon Apr 14, 1997 | Lose some weight | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| SHLEPP | Sun Mar 30, 2008 | Lug: Var. | Paula Gamache |
| STARTDATE | Sun May 26, 2019 | When something goes live | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| SWITCHEDPARTIES | Sun Nov 3, 2024 | Moved across the aisle | Sid Sivakumar |
| TAPEDEYEGLASSES | Mon Jun 25, 2001 | Nerd identifier #1 | Stanley Newman |
| TURTLER | Sun May 5, 2019 | Terrapin catcher | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson |
| UNFROZEN | Thu Mar 24, 2016 | Thawed out | David Liben-Nowell and Tom Pepper |
| UPVOTES | Thu Nov 19, 2020 | Online endorsements | Derek J. Angell |
| VASINVIOLA | Wed Feb 21, 1996 | Abecedary phrase | F. & L. Sabin |
| WARPER | Fri Jan 7, 2005 | Water, vis-à-vis wood | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| WATCHTOWER | Tue Nov 27, 2012 | See 19-Across | Peter A. Collins |
| WHOLENEWBALLGAME | Tue Jul 13, 2021 | Situation that starts things completely over | Bruce Haight |
| YOUANDME | Sun Aug 30, 2009 | Us | Ashish Vengsarkar and Narayan Venkatasubramanyan |