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 50,639 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHAM | Sun Aug 11, 1996 | "What ___!" | M. Schneider |
| BELIEVEIT | Sat Nov 20, 2021 | "Seriously!" | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| CANCERS | Sat Aug 20, 2022 | People born on the 4th of July, e.g. | Hemant Mehta |
| CANIGO | Tue Apr 11, 2023 | "Are we done here?" | Taylor Johnson and Jeff Chen |
| COUNTERPLEA | Sun Aug 16, 2009 | "Feed me" | Randolph Ross |
| DEASIL | Thu Dec 4, 1997 | Clockwise | Eileen Lexau |
| DOONES | Wed Apr 4, 2012 | Lorna ___ (cookies) | Zoe Wheeler |
| ENDOFDAYS | Sat Jul 4, 2020 | Judgment setting | Peter Wentz |
| ENERGYVAMPIRE | Mon Aug 7, 2023 | "Monster" who drains people emotionally | Chloe Revery and Alissa Revness |
| FATUI | Sun Jul 3, 1994 | Ignes ___ (marsh lights) | A.J. Santora |
| FLESHTONE | Tue May 25, 2010 | Body suit shade, perhaps | Sarah Keller |
| GOODMANACE | Tue Jul 11, 1995 | Old Saturday Review humorist | Gregory E. Paul |
| GRIFFIN | Wed Apr 15, 2020 | Mythical beast that's half lion and half eagle | John-Clark Levin and Jeff Chen |
| GUADELOUPE | Fri May 17, 2019 | Caribbean land named by Columbus | Adam Fromm |
| HIHON | Mon Feb 21, 2022 | Spousal greeting | Natalie Murphy |
| HOLDOPEN | Sat Jun 19, 2021 | Not close | Sophia Maymudes |
| HOORAHS | Sat Apr 2, 2016 | Shouts of victory | Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber |
| INDISREPAIR | Mon Sep 10, 2012 | Falling apart | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| INTHESAMEVEIN | Mon Aug 29, 2022 | "Similarly ..." | Chase Dittrich and Jeff Chen |
| ISTHISIT | Sat Apr 22, 2023 | "Perhaps I have what you're looking for?" | Byron Walden |
| JIMMYSWAGGART | Sat May 24, 2014 | "A Study in the Word" host | Peter Wentz |
| KEPTQUIETABOUT | Wed Mar 28, 2018 | Didn't speak of, as a touchy subject | Peter Gordon |
| LACKADAISICALLY | Tue May 19, 2020 | "I can't find a flower for 'She loves me, she loves me not,'" said Tom ___ | Trent H. Evans |
| LEADSTHEWITNESS | Sat Aug 9, 1997 | Does a legal no-no | Raymond Hamel |
| MARANTA | Sat Jul 14, 2007 | Plant of the arrowroot family | Victor Fleming |
| NOSOUPFORYOU | Mon Aug 23, 2021 | "Seinfeld" catchphrase | Bruce Haight |
| PRECOOKED | Sun Jun 3, 2012 | Like Spam | Patrick Berry |
| PUBLICAN | Sun Apr 24, 1994 | Tavern keeper | Louis Sabin |
| RESETTLEMENT | Sun Aug 18, 2024 | Vital component of the global refugee process | Rebecca Goldstein and Will Nediger |
| SHOREUP | Fri Jun 30, 2006 | Buttress | Manny Nosowsky |
| SILENTHILL | Thu Jul 10, 2014 | Hit 2006 horror film based on a video game series | John Guzzetta |
| SILVERBULLETS | Fri Mar 18, 2016 | Miraculous solutions | Michael Wiesenberg |
| SIMMEREDDOWN | Fri Jan 28, 2022 | Regained one's composure | Jem Burch |
| TOPRATING | Sun Aug 2, 1998 | Critical foursome | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| TRACTORTRAILER | Tue Apr 7, 2009 | Semi | Joon Pahk |
| UNDERGOD | Sat Oct 19, 2013 | Follower of one nation? | Peter Wentz |
| WARCRAFT | Fri Jan 14, 2022 | World of ___ | Matthew Stock and Sid Sivakumar |
| WHYDOIBOTHER | Sun Apr 6, 2025 | *"Oh, what's the point?" | Kareem Ayas |
| YESON | Sun Feb 3, 2013 | See 67-Across | Dan Schoenholz |
| ZINCED | Sat Oct 6, 2018 | Galvanized, chemically | Lewis Dean Hyatt |