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 51,193 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APATH | Sun Jun 23, 2002 | "Beat ___ to ..." | Eric Berlin |
| BELVEDEREVODKA | Tue Dec 2, 2025 | Grey Goose competitor | Jonathan Baude |
| DEPLORES | Sat Jan 24, 2026 | Really, really regrets | Adrian Johnson and Ryan McCarty |
| DESOXYRIBONUCLEICACID | Sun Oct 13, 2002 | Part of 26-Down, old-style | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DITKO | Sun Nov 4, 2018 | Steve who co-created Spider-Man | Patrick Berry |
| FATTAILED | Sat Jan 21, 1995 | Like a variety of sheep | Charles E. Gersch |
| FOLDEROLS | Wed Dec 11, 2002 | Gimcracks | Alan Arbesfeld |
| GETSICK | Sun Aug 19, 2018 | Catch something | Jacob Stulberg |
| HEMOGLOBIN | Wed Feb 7, 2024 | Substance that makes blood red | Daniel Mauer |
| HICKEY | Tue Jan 27, 1998 | Kiss mark | Manny Nosowsky |
| HOURANGLE | Sat Jul 29, 2017 | Measurement in a celestial coordinate system | Erik Agard |
| INADEEPHOLE | Fri Dec 19, 2025 | Bad place to be while gambling | Hemant Mehta |
| INFANTA | Sat Sep 30, 2000 | Spanish princess | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| JUMBOS | Wed Nov 10, 2010 | 747 and Airbus A380, as jets go | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| JUSTSPITBALLING | Tue Dec 9, 2025 | "These are merely my spur-of-the-moment suggestions ..." | Kate Hawkins |
| KLONDIKEBAR | Sat Jul 4, 2015 | Treat with a polar bear in its logo | Sam Ezersky |
| LIGHTENER | Sun Jun 22, 2014 | Summer hair product | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LOGICIAN | Fri Aug 9, 2019 | "If ... then" sort of thinker | John Guzzetta |
| MADDOCTOR | Sat Mar 10, 2007 | Wild-haired stock character | Patrick Berry |
| MOONEYED | Sun Oct 20, 1996 | Patently amazed | R. Ross |
| MUTTONHEADED | Tue Jun 5, 2018 | Stupid | Peter Gordon |
| NONPUBLIC | Sat Apr 22, 2023 | Private | Byron Walden |
| OTARIES | Sun Mar 12, 1995 | Eared seals | Charles M. Deber |
| OTOLARYNGOLOGIST | Tue Sep 22, 2015 | Head and neck physician | Victor Barocas and Tom Pepper |
| PAILFUL | Thu Aug 28, 1997 | Jack and Jill's burden | Shannon Burns |
| PHILOSOPHIZE | Thu Dec 6, 2012 | Speculate superficially | Jill Denny and Jeff Chen |
| POTATOROT | Sat Jan 16, 2010 | Plant disease similar to blackleg | Ned White |
| REGREET | Sun May 27, 2001 | Shake hands with again | Dana Motley |
| RESPECTER | Thu Feb 16, 2012 | Obeyer, as of laws | Jim Page |
| ROTATIVE | Fri Nov 26, 1999 | Occurring in regular succession | Roger Phillips |
| SAMLETS | Fri Jun 6, 1997 | Young salmon | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| SANDHILL | Sun Aug 23, 1998 | Dune | Nelson Hardy |
| STORIETTE | Sat Feb 13, 1999 | Brief tale | David J. Kahn |
| TAKEONESCUEFROM | Fri Oct 12, 2012 | Follow, as a leader | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| THEOLOGY | Fri Apr 24, 2026 | Field for both Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. | Andrew Spooner |
| THREEPART | Sun Feb 15, 2004 | Like the names at 33-, 51-, 61-, 73-, 93-, 101- and 120-Across | Derrick Niederman |
| USMILITARYDRONE | Mon Feb 1, 2021 | Unmanned Dept. of Defense aircraft | Soleil Saint-Cyr |
| WELLROUNDEDDIET | Mon Feb 13, 2023 | Nutritionist's recommendation ... or what the answers to the starred clues make up, to an overly literal person? | Eric Rollfing |
| YOURLIFE | Sun Feb 15, 2015 | - | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| ZEROCHANCE | Fri Jan 29, 2021 | "100% not happening!" | Robyn Weintraub |