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 50,794 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APOLLOX | Sun Nov 25, 2012 | Lunar mission commanded by Thomas P. Stafford | Jeff Chen |
| APTONYM | Sat Aug 13, 2022 | Person's name that's amusingly appropriate, like Usain Bolt or William Wordsworth | John Westwig |
| ARRAKIS | Sun Dec 8, 2024 | Spice planet in the "Dune" universe | John Kugelman |
| BBCNEWS | Thu Mar 9, 2017 | Airer of many public affairs programmes | Jeremy Newton |
| BURNINGBUSH | Tue Jul 24, 2012 | It appeared before Moses on Mount Horeb | Andrew Marc Greene |
| CRENELS | Sun Sep 6, 1998 | Battlement openings | Rich Norris |
| DANKMEMES | Sat Jul 7, 2018 | Internet in-jokes that have gone viral, in modern lingo | Ryan McCarty |
| DECANTED | Mon Jun 30, 1997 | Poured wine into another container | Peter Gordon |
| DRIVETHRUWINDOW | Fri Apr 30, 2004 | Feature of many banks | Kevin Hagen |
| EATYOURHEARTOUT | Sat Jan 7, 2006 | Gloater's remark | Jim Hyres |
| ENDEAVORED | Sun Mar 10, 2019 | Made an attempt | Adam Fromm |
| EXPLODED | Mon Mar 2, 2015 | Went off, as a bomb | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| EYECUPS | Thu Sep 19, 1996 | Ophthalmologists' equipment | W. S. Cotter |
| FIGEATER | Sun Nov 4, 2018 | Shiny beetle disliked by fruit growers | Patrick Berry |
| HOLYWRIT | Sun Mar 9, 2014 | Sunday reading | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JUGGLE | Sun Sep 23, 2007 | What multitaskers do with things | David Levinson Wilk |
| LOLLIPOPS | Mon Jul 25, 2022 | They're for suckers | Michael T. Buerke |
| MANOLO | Tue Mar 25, 2014 | Shoe designer Blahnik | David Woolf |
| MEXICANAMERICAN | Tue Aug 12, 2025 | Chicana, for example | Erik Agard |
| MIDMORN | Fri Jan 7, 2005 | A few hours after dawn, in verse | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| MOILED | Fri May 15, 1998 | Churned about | John Wolting |
| NAVYBLUEBLAZER | Sun Nov 20, 2005 | Mascot #2 | Patrick Merrell |
| NOVEM | Tue Jun 15, 2010 | Caesar's nine | Jill Winslow |
| OLDFOE | Tue Aug 15, 2023 | Enemy from one's past | Malaika Handa |
| PATROBERTSON | Mon Jun 15, 2009 | Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network | John Dunn |
| POETICISM | Tue Aug 6, 1996 | Banal bit of versification | F. Heaney |
| PUCCIS | Sun Nov 19, 2000 | Some Italian designs | Cathy Millhauser |
| REALLYSOMETHING | Fri Jul 2, 2021 | Out of the ordinary | Brooke Husic and Ada Nicolle |
| REAVOW | Wed Nov 27, 1996 | Admit again | R. Hughes |
| SANDPAPERS | Sat May 23, 2015 | Takes the edge off? | Peter Wentz |
| SEVIER | Sat Apr 18, 1998 | Tennessee's first governor, John ___ | Frank Longo |
| SNOWPACK | Tue Oct 19, 2021 | Layered buildup in the Arctic | Ross Trudeau |
| SPITOUT | Sun Dec 3, 2017 | Say quickly | David Steinberg |
| STORYEDITOR | Thu Aug 23, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes worker in TV news | Kyle Dolan |
| TILESAW | Thu Sep 14, 2023 | Power tool used for mosaics | Vasu Seralathan |
| UNRELATED | Wed Jun 8, 2005 | Like bush pigs and guinea pigs | Richard Chisholm |
| USEONLYASRECOMMENDED | Sun Dec 7, 2003 | In other words, it'll break in 24 hours | Sherry O. Blackard |
| WHITTLES | Sun Jan 14, 2024 | Cuts down to size | John Kugelman |
| WINDSPEED | Sun May 12, 2019 | What's measured by [circled letters] | Victor Barocas |
| WORLDMAP | Wed Oct 20, 2010 | Colorful almanac feature | Finn Vigeland |