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 50,634 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMAZINGSPIDERMAN | Sat Feb 11, 2023 | Web master, with "the" | Sam Ezersky |
| BICKER | Sun Jun 29, 2014 | Trade cross words | Byron Walden |
| BOATERS | Wed Jan 15, 1997 | Straw hats | C. Currier |
| CAPPISTOL | Thu Mar 13, 2025 | Toy shooter | Rich Proulx and Simeon Seigel |
| CHICKENTERIYAKI | Thu Jun 28, 2018 | "Fowl"-tasting Japanese dish | Jeff Chen |
| COEXISTED | Fri Oct 31, 2014 | Didn't kill each other | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| CONDENSE | Wed Feb 11, 1998 | Abridge | Nancy S. Ross |
| EMAILMESSAGES | Tue Jun 18, 1996 | Notes in cyberspace | E. C. Gorski |
| ERDAS | Fri Mar 20, 2009 | "___ Warning" ("Das Rheingold" aria) | David Levinson Wilk |
| FILEPROTECTION | Sun Oct 28, 2001 | ARMED (FILE) GUARD | Michael Ashley |
| FULLDISCLOSURE | Mon Apr 6, 2009 | Withholding nothing | Dustin Foley |
| FUNFUNFUN | Mon Aug 26, 2024 | Beach Boys hit of 1964 | Zachary David Levy |
| GARYIN | Sun May 30, 2021 | City about 25 miles SE of Chicago, IL | Adam Wagner |
| GETSOPEN | Fri Mar 21, 2014 | Breaks away from a defender | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| GOOSEEGGS | Mon May 16, 2022 | Big fat zeros | Lynn Lempel |
| HOLODECKS | Sun Nov 7, 2021 | "Star Trek" virtual reality chambers | Sid Sivakumar |
| LEAVEYOURNUMBER | Thu Sep 8, 2005 | Instruction on a record executive's answering machine message? | Ben Tausig |
| LITTLEBIT | Sun Aug 16, 2015 | *Smidgen | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| OHBARNACLES | Wed Jan 25, 2017 | "@#$!" from SpongeBob SquarePants | Tracy Gray |
| OLDIEBUTAGOODIE | Fri Nov 7, 2025 | Nostalgic tune | Kelly Morenus |
| PADDLEBOARD | Thu May 30, 2019 | Dog ... / Star ... | Brandon Koppy |
| PARLORS | Sun Mar 3, 2002 | Places with rocking chairs | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| PLANETRIPS | Mon Oct 4, 1999 | Flights | Joey Crumley |
| POOLER | Tue Apr 10, 2012 | Car ___ | Gregory Philip Butler |
| PRICEOFADMISSION | Sun Feb 3, 2019 | Entry fee | Natan Last |
| PUTONTHERITZ | Sat Jun 8, 2024 | Live ostentatiously | Daniel Sheremeta |
| RIDESON | Sun Jan 5, 2020 | Has as a mount | Will Nediger |
| SHELVES | Thu Nov 2, 1995 | Puts aside | Wayne Robert Williams |
| SHIPIN | Sat Sep 20, 2008 | Send from abroad | Joe Krozel |
| SNAPINSPECTIONS | Sat Aug 27, 2005 | Some nonproliferation treaty provisions | Byron Walden |
| SOLDFORPARTS | Fri Jan 28, 2022 | Like many a lemon, eventually | Jem Burch |
| SOUPIEST | Fri Feb 15, 2008 | Most mawkish | Patrick Berry |
| STEADINESS | Sat Dec 18, 1999 | It may keep you on the beam | Nancy Joline |
| STOUR | Sun Dec 2, 2001 | Great ___ River, through Canterbury | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| THECHECKISINTHEMAIL | Sun Oct 2, 2016 | Classic lie | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| THESANDSOFTIME | Sat Sep 17, 2022 | Hourglass contents, poetically | Grant Thackray |
| TODDLED | Sun Nov 4, 2007 | Took one's first steps | Bob Klahn |
| TWOTHOUSANDSIX | Wed Jan 11, 2006 | Sum of 16-, 24-, 33- and 47-Across | Mel Rosen |
| UNARISEN | Wed Feb 22, 1995 | Still in bed | Wayne Robert Williams |
| WOULDABEENNICE | Mon Aug 4, 2003 | "If only ..." | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |