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 50,695 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHGOTCHA | Wed Apr 5, 2023 | "Hmm, that makes sense" | Brandon Koppy |
| ALLSWELLTHATENDSWELL | Sun Aug 26, 2012 | Source of the line "They say miracles are past" | Amanda Yesnowitz and Doug Peterson |
| BEARDED | Sat Oct 11, 1997 | Like a mountain goat | Fred Piscop |
| BIGCITY | Fri Jun 10, 2011 | Typical of urban life | Patrick Berry |
| BILLIEHOLIDAY | Tue Nov 28, 2006 | "Lady Sings the Blues" autobiographer | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BLACKVELVET | Thu Sep 8, 2016 | 1990 #1 hit for Alannah Myles | Joanne Sullivan |
| BOATRIDE | Fri Jul 31, 2015 | Outing on a river or lake | James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson |
| BPICTURES | Fri Oct 30, 2015 | Minor additions to the bill? | Patrick Berry |
| COCOAPUFF | Tue Aug 8, 2023 | Bit of chocolate-flavored cereal | Zachary David Levy |
| COMEX | Tue Dec 30, 1997 | One of the financial markets, for short | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DARKVICTORY | Tue Jan 6, 2009 | 1939 Bette Davis drama | John Greenman |
| DENSEFOREST | Mon Jun 8, 2009 | Thick growth of trees | Randy Sowell |
| DESOXYRIBONUCLEICACID | Sun Oct 13, 2002 | Part of 26-Down, old-style | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| EARLOCK | Fri Feb 24, 2012 | One hanging at a temple | Patrick Berry |
| EDWARDGOREY | Tue Aug 5, 2008 | Author/illustrator who used the pseudonym Ogdred Weary | joon and caroline pahk |
| EPICUREAN | Thu Feb 17, 1994 | Definitely not ascetic | Brett Blaylock |
| EVENERS | Sun Feb 26, 2006 | Planes | Randolph Ross |
| EXPRESSLANE | Fri Jun 19, 2009 | Something to pass in | David Levinson Wilk |
| FENDEDOFF | Sun Apr 30, 2006 | Deflected | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| GOODES | Thu Jun 16, 1994 | Former Philly mayor Wilson et al. | Jim Page |
| GORGEOUSGEORGE | Mon Nov 28, 2011 | 1940s-'50s wrestler with golden locks | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| HOTASHADES | Sat Mar 8, 2025 | Scorching | Joe Deeney |
| HOTONTHESCENT | Tue Mar 18, 2008 | In close pursuit | David Pringle |
| IBSENS | Tue Aug 15, 1995 | "Ghosts" writer and kin | Randall J. Hartman |
| INTRAMURAL | Sat Sep 1, 2012 | Unlike conference games | Tim Croce |
| LETDOWNYOURHAIR | Thu Jul 16, 2015 | Entreaty to Rapunzel | Paula Gamache |
| MEDIEVALROMANCE | Sat Aug 17, 2002 | Damsel-in-distress tale, maybe | Frank Longo |
| NORTHERNER | Thu Dec 12, 1996 | Yankee | J. R. Conrad |
| OBSERVANT | Sun May 19, 1996 | DEV* | C. M. Deber |
| PENSACOLA | Thu Feb 26, 2015 | Southern city that calls itself "America's First Settlement" (1559) | Caleb Emmons |
| PHL | Sun Aug 21, 2022 | Keystone State airport code | Brooke Husic and Will Nediger |
| POSTTRUTH | Sat Apr 28, 2018 | Like a world in which objective facts are less important than appeals to emotion and personal belief | Andrew Kingsley and John Lieb |
| PULLRANK | Tue Jan 27, 2009 | Exert one's superiority | Jim Hyres |
| REBUFFED | Mon Jun 9, 2025 | Spurned | Aimee Lucido |
| SAYNOW | Thu Sep 16, 2021 | "Here's an idea ..." | Kevin Patterson |
| STEAMERTRUNK | Thu Sep 25, 2025 | Storage item on some ocean voyages | Jesse Goldberg |
| TOERAG | Mon Dec 31, 2018 | Scoundrel, in British slang | Brian Thomas |
| TOOKAHIKE | Wed Jan 9, 2013 | Did or didn't participate in the Boy Scouts outing? | David Ben-Merre |
| WEIGHSCALES | Mon Mar 1, 2010 | They measure the tonnage of trucks | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| WOESOME | Sun Dec 24, 1995 | Grievous, to grandma | Frances Hansen |