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 50,813 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACLEAR | Sun Jan 30, 1994 | Lane-Lerner's "On _____ Day" | Alex K. Justin |
| ALPHABETBLOCKS | Sun Oct 13, 2019 | Children's playthings that help with spelling | Erik Agard |
| ANGLOSAXON | Sat May 25, 2013 | Fifth-century invader | David Steinberg |
| AROUNDTHEGLOBE | Tue Dec 15, 2020 | Where one might find Boston news reporters? | Adam Vincent |
| BLUEPAPER | Sun Nov 18, 2018 | Document listing technical specifications | Byron Walden and Joel Fagliano |
| CANDIES | Sun Mar 22, 2020 | Halloween haul | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| CANNERS | Sun Mar 3, 2002 | Packing crew | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| COCKLES | Wed May 15, 2024 | Bivalve mollusks | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| CORNROW | Mon Aug 6, 2012 | *Tight braid | Lynn Lempel |
| DETONATED | Sun Jun 6, 2004 | Set off | Patrick Merrell |
| DICTATED | Sat Oct 18, 2014 | Like some business letters | Evan Birnholz |
| FANVOTE | Sun Nov 9, 2025 | Chance for supporters to induct athletes into the All-Star Game | Amie Walker |
| FIRSTBEGAN | Mon Jun 6, 2016 | Started | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| HOTOVER | Sat Feb 15, 1997 | Ticked off about | J. Clonick |
| HOUSINGPROJECT | Tue Feb 19, 2013 | Publicly funded residential complex | Barry Franklin and Sara Kaplan |
| ITSANO | Thu Jul 27, 2023 | Words of rejection | Guilherme Gilioli |
| JAUNTIER | Sun Dec 15, 2013 | More rakish | Jeff Chen |
| LADYLOVE | Sun Nov 6, 2011 | Woman of one's heart | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| MBASTUDENT | Fri Jan 11, 2019 | Many an aspiring exec, academically | Jim Horne and Jeff Chen |
| MEDICALCENTER | Sun Jul 12, 2009 | *Ambulance destination | Alan Arbesfeld |
| MERER | Fri Mar 15, 2024 | More trifling | Daniel Grinberg |
| MUDFLOW | Mon Dec 26, 2022 | Landslide of wet sediment | Kurt Weller |
| MYANTONIA | Sun Dec 16, 2018 | Final work of Willa Cather's "Prairie Trilogy" | Sam Ezersky |
| OFO | Sat Mar 25, 2006 | "The Story __" (Pauline Réage novel) | Byron Walden |
| REDDITORS | Sun Dec 15, 2019 | Contributors to "the front page of the internet" | Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen |
| RINGALARMBELLS | Tue Feb 15, 2022 | Security alerts at a boxing match? | Claire Rimkus |
| ROUGED | Sun Dec 30, 2001 | Red-faced? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ROWHOUSES | Sun Dec 30, 2001 | Urban dwellings | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SEABOAT | Fri Feb 13, 1998 | Craft | Jim Page |
| SECTARIANS | Tue Oct 9, 2001 | Members of religious factions | Peter Gordon |
| SHOULDERTHEBLAME | Tue Jul 19, 2022 | Take responsibility for a misdeed | Andy Kravis |
| SITNEXTTO | Sat Feb 21, 1998 | Accompany, as on a train | Richard Hughes |
| STAYWITHIT | Mon Mar 10, 2003 | "Keep going!" | Gail Grabowski |
| SUBSIDES | Fri Feb 16, 2007 | Falls off | Charles Barasch |
| THEBIGFIVEOH | Mon Sep 8, 2014 | Milestone birthday, informally ... with a hint to 20-, 31- and 41-Across | Dan Schoenholz |
| THEBOYWHOCRIEDWOLF | Thu Apr 9, 2015 | One of Aesop's fables | Jacob Stulberg |
| TOPPRIORITY | Tue May 12, 2020 | *First thing to do on a to-do list | Tom Pepper and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| TRAFFICROTARIES | Mon Apr 10, 2006 | Alternatives to stoplights | Gary J. Whitehead |
| UPKEY | Tue Jul 20, 2021 | Aid in scrolling to the top | Sam Buchbinder |
| WORLDATLAS | Fri May 29, 2020 | Country album? | Sam Ezersky |