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 50,908 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEGGEDFORMORE | Thu Dec 12, 2019 | Shouted "Encore!," say | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| BLEEDER | Tue Nov 19, 2019 | Grounder that squeezes between two infielders, in baseball slang | Ross Trudeau |
| BOBCRATCHIT | Fri Dec 25, 2009 | One who worked in a "dismal little cell" | Paula Gamache |
| BRADDAVIS | Sat Jul 25, 1998 | 1978 Golden Globe winner for best new actor | Robert H. Wolfe |
| CALLOUT | Sat Aug 11, 2001 | Yell | David J. Kahn |
| CHICKWEED | Wed Feb 23, 2000 | Baby fowl don't grow on this | Fred Piscop |
| CLUMPS | Wed Jan 17, 1996 | Nuggets | L. Sidway |
| CORPSMEN | Fri May 5, 2006 | Army medics | Manny Nosowsky |
| EARLYBIRD | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Kind of special | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| EMPTYSPACE | Tue Mar 5, 2024 | Void | Christina Iverson |
| FIRSTNAMES | Sat Jun 24, 2000 | Peter, Paul and Mary | Nancy Joline |
| GETERDONE | Sat Feb 25, 2023 | Slangy catchphrase of encouragement | Trent H. Evans |
| GINNING | Mon May 11, 2020 | Enlivening, with "up" | Ross Trudeau |
| INACLUMP | Sun Mar 8, 2020 | Clustered | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| INWARDLY | Mon Mar 5, 2001 | Deep down | Sherry O. Blackard |
| LOSEONESHEAD | Tue May 15, 2001 | Go ballistic | Jon Delfin |
| MOLTENCHOCOLATE | Mon Mar 14, 2011 | Hershey's vatful | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| NANCYWILSON | Sun Feb 14, 1999 | "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" singer | Elizabeth Gorski |
| OBNOXIOUS | Mon Feb 18, 2019 | Very annoying | Leslie Rogers and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| ONESTOPSHOP | Fri May 4, 2018 | What has a lot in store for you? | Michael Hawkins |
| OVERDRAFT | Mon Jan 27, 2003 | Checking account woe | Stanley Newman |
| PENGPU | Thu Jun 13, 2002 | City in eastern China, onetime Nationalist headquarters | David J. Kahn |
| PREACHED | Mon Mar 17, 1997 | Delivered a sermon | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| PRIORARREST | Sun Nov 1, 2015 | Rap sheet entry | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| REALIGNS | Wed Apr 5, 1995 | Gets back to true | Wayne Robert Williams |
| SECONDCLASSMAIL | Fri Jan 14, 2011 | It's now called "Periodicals" | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SHORTFALL | Sat May 14, 2022 | Unanticipated deficit | Ada Nicolle |
| SMARTHOME | Sat Aug 1, 2020 | Residence with lots of remotely controlled systems | Adam Aaronson and Paolo Pasco |
| SNIFFING | Sat Jan 25, 2003 | Cold sound | Patrick Berry |
| SOUTHSUDANESE | Sat Sep 2, 2017 | Neighbor of an Ethiopian | Erik Agard |
| THEMUD | Sat Sep 25, 1999 | Wrestling locale, in a phrase | David J. Kahn |
| TIMIDITY | Sun Nov 15, 2015 | Antithesis of brashness | Alan Arbesfeld |
| TOKENED | Fri May 19, 2006 | Symbolized | Patrick Berry |
| TOMGIRL | Sun Jun 19, 2016 | Gender nonconformist | David Woolf |
| TRADESIES | Wed Sep 18, 2024 | Cutesy term for a swap | Casey Callaghan and Will Nediger |
| TUNNIES | Fri Feb 24, 1995 | Bluefins | Rich Norris |
| UNDERONEROOF | Sun Sep 17, 2017 | All together, as a family | Mark MacLachlan |
| VICS | Tue Sep 11, 2012 | Trader ___ | Kenneth Leeser |
| WERESAVED | Sun Jan 7, 2024 | Exclamation after a rescue | Michael Schlossberg |
| YUMMIEST | Tue Feb 29, 2000 | Most tasty | Peter Gordon |