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 50,622 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABLEWASIEREISAWELBA | Wed May 4, 2011 | Phrase inspired by Napoleon | Jeff Chen |
| ADJOINED | Tue May 22, 2012 | Was next to | Kyle T. Dolan |
| BALKSAT | Wed Mar 10, 2021 | Refuses to carry out | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| BBQAPRON | Sat May 28, 2005 | Gift for an outdoor chef | Bob Peoples |
| BEREZINA | Sun Nov 20, 2016 | See 86-Down | Ed Sessa |
| BITAT | Thu Jun 20, 2013 | Tried to nip | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BRIGHTASABUTTON | Tue Mar 5, 2002 | Brainy | Marjorie Richter |
| BUGLING | Thu Jun 16, 2005 | Cavalry sound | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CATDAD | Sat Feb 10, 2024 | Man with a Manx, say | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| CLAVE | Wed Jul 6, 2016 | Hardwood percussion stick | David Woolf |
| DESKCLERK | Wed Feb 13, 2008 | Hotel front person | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ENFRAMES | Sat Mar 29, 2003 | Puts a border around | Michael Shteyman |
| EPICWINS | Sat Jul 22, 2017 | Awesome successes | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| EVENALITTLE | Sat Dec 3, 2022 | At all | Kate Hawkins |
| FLUMMOX | Mon Apr 25, 2016 | Discombobulate | Betty Keller |
| FOURLEAFCLOVERS | Tue Jun 28, 2005 | Lucky charms | Jim Hyres |
| HARMONIA | Fri Sep 10, 2004 | Daughter of Ares | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HIGHKICKS | Thu Aug 8, 2019 | *Can components | Timothy Polin |
| HINKYPINKY | Mon Nov 24, 2008 | Rhyming word game | Billie Truitt |
| HOPING | Fri May 3, 2013 | ___ for the best | David Kwong |
| HOPSON | Sat May 7, 2011 | Joins the bandwagon? | Tim Croce |
| HYDRATES | Mon Jun 17, 2013 | Infuses with water | Johanna Fenimore and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| INSIDETHEBOX | Thu Sep 27, 2018 | SEE NOTEPAD | Daniel Kantor |
| JELLYROLL | Mon Nov 16, 2020 | Sweet item at a bakery | Jennifer Nutt |
| LAUTNER | Fri Sep 19, 2014 | Taylor of "Twilight" | Finn Vigeland |
| LIKECRAZY | Fri Apr 18, 2014 | Something awful | James Mulhern |
| MAKESAFOOLOF | Sun Jul 9, 2023 | Humiliates | Christina Iverson |
| PARASAILED | Fri Mar 17, 2023 | Flew over seas? | Carter Cobb |
| POISONOUS | Sat Aug 2, 2003 | Like a foxglove | Dana Motley |
| PREYUPON | Wed May 9, 2012 | Hunt for, as game | Eshan Mitra |
| STALLSFORTIME | Sun Oct 7, 2001 | Magazine stands? | Patrick Berry |
| SUMMERTIMEBLUES | Fri Mar 3, 2017 | 1958 hit song that begins "I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler" | Patrick Berry |
| TENROUNDS | Fri Jan 12, 2018 | Length of the final fight in "Rocky Balboa" | Erik Agard |
| TOOLITTLETOOLATE | Thu Apr 13, 2023 | Not enough, and without the urgency, to make a difference ... or a literal hint to 18-, 30-, 38- and 48-Across | Robin Yu |
| TORNLIGAMENT | Wed Nov 4, 2015 | Reason to get Tommy John surgery | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| TRIMMERS | Sat Aug 14, 2010 | Lawn care equipment | John Farmer |
| VERMONTER | Mon May 21, 2018 | Bernie Sanders, for one | Hannah Slovut |
| WALKEDONTHEMOON | Wed Jul 20, 2005 | What 20- and 50-Across did on July 20, 1969 | Roy Leban |
| WORTHASHOT | Mon Feb 10, 2020 | Suitable for moviemaking? | Bruce Haight |
| XANDER | Sun Mar 19, 2023 | Friend of Buffy on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" | Robert Ryan |