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 50,639 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMANUENSES | Fri Dec 26, 1997 | Secretaries | Bob Sefick |
| AVERSELY | Thu Oct 17, 2002 | With reluctance | Todd McClary |
| BIPLANES | Fri Apr 7, 2006 | Old fliers | Adam Cohen |
| BOBKERREY | Sat Feb 7, 2015 | Former senator and presidential candidate who once dated Debra Winger | Byron Walden |
| BOUNCEBACK | Thu Sep 3, 2020 | Recover ... or what 17-, 25-, 38- and 51-Across do? | Sid Sivakumar |
| BOYZ | Mon Sep 15, 2014 | ___ II Men (R&B group) | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| CAMPIEST | Sat Jan 21, 1995 | Most amusingly exaggerated | Charles E. Gersch |
| CHEWINGON | Sat Feb 21, 2009 | Pondering, informally | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| CHOMSKY | Wed Dec 4, 2002 | Linguist Noam | Richard Hughes |
| CONFABS | Mon Apr 4, 2011 | Chatty discussions | Lynn Lempel |
| DOBEE | Sun Mar 18, 2007 | Old "Romper Room" character with bouncing antennae | Craig Kasper |
| EIGHTEENS | Sun Aug 17, 2003 | Women's dress sizes | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ELIZABETHARDEN | Fri Mar 16, 2007 | Producer of many fragrances | Eric Berlin |
| EPPING | Thu Sep 6, 2001 | ___ Forest (park near London) | Frank Longo |
| FYODOR | Thu Nov 5, 1998 | Author Dostoyevsky | Nancy Salomon |
| HEADHUNTS | Sun Nov 7, 1999 | Recruits, in a way | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HOTORCOLD | Mon Jun 16, 1997 | Sandwich choice | Gene Newman |
| IMBORED | Sat Jul 28, 2001 | [Yawn] | Rich Norris |
| JANSPORT | Sat Apr 5, 2025 | World's largest maker of backpacks | Rafael Musa |
| LATEIN | Sun Jul 10, 1994 | _____ the day (near evening) | Alvin Chase |
| LIBERALDEMOCRAT | Fri Sep 21, 2007 | Left-of-center party member | Paula Gamache |
| LOWRATES | Fri Aug 4, 2006 | One-star hotel attraction | Manny Nosowsky |
| METEOROLOGIST | Tue Apr 12, 2022 | Temp job? | Dan Schoenholz |
| NAMETAGS | Sun Jun 18, 2023 | They hold people's handles | Joe DiPietro |
| OKWISEGUY | Sat Apr 5, 2025 | "Hey, dude, enough with the jokes" | Rafael Musa |
| OLDWELSH | Fri Feb 14, 2020 | Successor language to Common Brittonic | Daniel Larsen |
| PREMIUMQUALITY | Thu Oct 1, 1998 | High-grade | Manny Nosowsky |
| RAISEDTHEBAR | Thu May 21, 2015 | Elevated expectations ... or what this puzzle's maker did to five answers in this puzzle? | Peter A. Collins |
| REASK | Fri Feb 16, 2007 | Send another invitation | Charles Barasch |
| RELINED | Thu Oct 25, 2001 | Like some old coats | John Scott Marrone |
| RICHTERSCALE | Sat Jan 17, 2015 | Provider of shock value? | Josh Knapp |
| SKITTLES | Tue Mar 11, 2025 | "Taste the rainbow" candy | Jared Cappel |
| SOSOREVIEWS | Wed Oct 10, 2018 | They might have 2 1/2 or 3 stars | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| TAILLESS | Fri Aug 1, 2003 | Ecaudate | Manny Nosowsky |
| TALEOF | Sun May 22, 1994 | _____ woe | Randolph Ross |
| THATSWHATSUP | Sat Mar 12, 2016 | "Hell, yeah!" | Josh Knapp |
| THERANGE | Sun Jul 7, 2019 | "Home" in a classic song | Jack Reuter |
| VASINVIOLA | Wed Feb 21, 1996 | Abecedary phrase | F. & L. Sabin |
| WILDROSES | Thu Mar 17, 2022 | *Trick | Daniel Bodily and Jeff Chen |
| ZIGGYSTARDUST | Sat Dec 31, 2022 | David Bowie persona in 1970s glam rock | Billy Bratton |