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 50,584 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIRVALVE | Sun Aug 19, 2007 | Radiator part | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ALIFOREMAN | Sat Sep 4, 2010 | Like the 1974 rope-a-dope fight | Mark Diehl |
| ALLSO | Sun Oct 29, 2000 | "This is ___ new to me!" | Karen Hodge |
| ASOSAN | Sun Apr 30, 1995 | Kyushu volcano | Warren W. Reich |
| BAGUETTE | Fri Mar 27, 2009 | Diamond-shaping choice | Paula Gamache |
| BULLDOG | Mon Apr 12, 2021 | Yale's Handsome Dan mascot, for one | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| CLOSEFRIEND | Tue Dec 4, 2007 | See blurb | Alison Donald |
| DNASAMPLING | Mon Nov 25, 2013 | Gathering of biological evidence after an arrest | Kevin G. Der |
| DONTIKNOWYOU | Wed Jul 31, 1996 | Pickup line | J. Schmalzbach |
| DONTYOUCARE | Tue Jul 1, 2014 | Reproach from the Buckinghams, 1967 | Gary Cee |
| DOUBLEDOVER | Sun Jun 28, 2015 | With 90-Down, reacting to a gut punch, perhaps | Jeremy Newton |
| DRAWINTO | Sat Jan 1, 2005 | Make a member of little by little | Raymond C. Young |
| EXERCISE | Thu May 8, 2014 | Hit the gym | Matthew Lees |
| EYETO | Thu Jul 4, 2019 | With an ___ the future | Jim Hilger |
| GIDGET | Fri Dec 30, 1994 | Role for seven actresses | Wayne Robert Williams |
| GLADSTONE | Sat Oct 4, 2025 | Actress Lily of "Killers of the Flower Moon" | Ryan McCarty |
| HASITBOTHWAYS | Mon Sep 14, 2020 | Comes out ahead in either case ... as exemplified by 19-, 29-, 36- and 44-Across? | John Guzzetta |
| IMESSAGE | Tue Aug 15, 2023 | It shows up as a blue speech bubble | Malaika Handa |
| INKPEN | Sat Dec 31, 2022 | One end of it might be felt | Billy Bratton |
| INTERNALDRIVE | Wed Dec 31, 2014 | *Essential feature of a PC | David Woolf |
| IVEGOTYOU | Fri Apr 17, 2009 | "No, no, this one's on me" | Corey Rubin |
| KIXX | Sat Sep 6, 2008 | Aptly named Philadelphia indoor soccer team | Barry C. Silk |
| LEONTYNE | Fri Oct 18, 2013 | Price of an opera? | David Steinberg |
| LOTTOPRIZE | Mon Mar 25, 2019 | Mega Millions jackpot | Kevin Christian and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| LUXES | Fri Jul 3, 2009 | Meter-candles | Kevin G. Der |
| MESSTENTS | Sat Aug 16, 2014 | Spots for company cuisine | Peter Broda |
| MOVEITALONG | Tue Apr 8, 2014 | "That's enough!," to an assembly line worker? | Ian Livengood |
| OILTANKS | Sun Jun 18, 2017 | Shell containers | Sam Trabucco |
| PROBING | Tue May 30, 2023 | Like some nosy questions | Kathryn Ladner |
| PULLEDAHEAD | Wed Oct 9, 2024 | Took the lead | Jeffrey Lease |
| RAZZIEAWARDS | Tue Nov 20, 2018 | Turkey's place | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| ROCKWELL | Sun Aug 9, 2020 | Painter of the "Four Freedoms" series, 1943 | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| SPRINGFORWARD | Thu Mar 11, 2021 | Observe daylight saving time, in a way ... as in 17-, 29- and 54-Across? | Leslie Rogers |
| STORAGETANKS | Thu Mar 20, 2014 | Oil containers ["Get down!"] | Victor Barocas |
| TAKEITOUT | Sun Sep 30, 2007 | *What "dele" means | Kelsey Blakley |
| TIDALLY | Sun Sep 19, 2010 | How current events may happen? | Kevin G. Der |
| TRUMPUP | Sun Mar 26, 2006 | Fabricate | Patrick Berry |
| TRYTOKEEPUP | Fri Jul 12, 2024 | "Get with the program, will you!" | Malaika Handa |
| WORLDRECORDTIME | Wed Sep 3, 2008 | What each of seven 36-Across events at the 2008 Olympics ended in | David J. Kahn |
| WROTEITDOWNFROMMEMORY | Sun Jan 22, 2006 | After a single hearing of a sacred piece in the Sistine Chapel, Mystery Person ... | George Barany and Michael Shteyman |