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 50,704 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMYLNITRITE | Mon Feb 24, 2014 | Chemical compound in "poppers" | Adam G. Perl |
| ASTONMARTIN | Sat Aug 2, 2008 | Ride for 007 | Karen M. Tracey |
| BEDRIDDEN | Wed Aug 20, 2003 | Laid up | Mel Taub |
| BOWANDARROW | Fri Mar 13, 2020 | Something drawn for sport | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| CHICKWEED | Wed Feb 23, 2000 | Baby fowl don't grow on this | Fred Piscop |
| DORMI | Tue Oct 16, 2012 | Verdi duet "Madre, non ___?" | Bill Thompson |
| DUESENBERG | Sat Jan 8, 1994 | See 18-Across | Rand H. Burns |
| EMBOSSES | Wed Sep 3, 2008 | Raises, as a surface design | David J. Kahn |
| ERICHSEGAL | Thu Feb 10, 2011 | Author who co-wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" | Derek Bowman |
| FACEBOOKPOST | Sun May 25, 2025 | Certain social media update | Dylan Schiff |
| GARBAGEMAN | Wed Dec 19, 2018 | *Bag manager | Seth A. Abel |
| HENRYKISSINGER | Sun Jan 28, 1996 | Speaker of this puzzle's quip | M. W. Perry |
| JEANEDIXON | Sat Aug 6, 2005 | Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy" | Frank Longo |
| JUSTTHISONETIME | Tue Jan 25, 2000 | Dad says "yes" | William S. Cotter |
| KABUKITHEATER | Sun Sep 21, 2025 | Traditional form of Japanese drama | Adrianne Baik |
| LANDLORD | Sun May 3, 1998 | Fred Mertz, notably | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MICROGRAM | Sun Nov 18, 2018 | One is roughly the mass of a speck of dust | Byron Walden and Joel Fagliano |
| MISTERSCOTT | Sun Aug 3, 2025 | Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!" | Jeremy Newton |
| MOAI | Fri Mar 22, 2019 | Easter Island statues | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| OLEOLSEN | Fri Jun 20, 2003 | Half an old vaudeville duo | Bob Peoples |
| POTSHARD | Fri Nov 7, 1997 | Dig discovery: Var. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PRENUPTIAL | Sun Jul 28, 2019 | Wedding agreement | Christopher Adams |
| RADICCHIO | Sun Apr 7, 2019 | Leafy salad ingredient | Peter A. Collins |
| RANARMS | Sat Feb 1, 2020 | Smuggled weaponry | Mark Diehl |
| REDBREAST | Wed Nov 6, 1996 | Robin | M. E. Skolsky |
| RIBERA | Sat Aug 29, 1998 | "Immaculate Conception" artist José de ___ | Jim Page |
| ROBIE | Thu Jun 25, 1998 | Frank Lloyd Wright's ___ House | Stanley B. Whitten |
| SCARIES | Sun Oct 16, 2022 | Sunday ___ (end-of-week anxiety, casually) | Paolo Pasco |
| SEASONER | Sat Mar 31, 2007 | One who shakes in a kitchen, maybe | John Duschatko |
| SHOEBLACK | Thu Sep 8, 2016 | Person whose work shines | Joanne Sullivan |
| SOPHISTRY | Sat Jan 1, 2000 | Choplogic | Rich Norris |
| STEPSUPONESGAME | Tue Oct 25, 2022 | Improves to meet a challenge ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters | Ashleigh Silveira and Nick Shephard |
| STRIPDOWN | Fri Sep 16, 2011 | Reduce to bare bones | Joe DiPietro |
| SUBWAYADS | Sat Oct 5, 2024 | Pitches low and inside? | Natan Last |
| TENDERMERCY | Mon Sep 18, 2006 | Feature of the Christian God | Dave Tuller |
| THEBROWNBOMBER | Thu Nov 28, 2013 | Joe Louis, to fans | Loren Muse Smith and Jeff Chen |
| TIPONEILL | Sat Jun 22, 2019 | Congressman who served the most consecutive years as speaker of the House (1977-87) | Joe Deeney |
| WENTEASYON | Fri Aug 14, 2015 | Cut some slack | Natan Last and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| WHYWORRY | Sat Mar 15, 2025 | "Don't things always turn out OK?" | Ryan McCarty |
| WONDERFULTOWN | Wed Aug 14, 1996 | "My Sister Eileen" with music, 1953 | G. E. Sykes |