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 51,117 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLOWFOR | Mon Sep 10, 2001 | Factor in | Nancy Salomon and Karen Riekert |
| ANDQS | Fri Jan 28, 1994 | P's _____(this puzzle's theme) | Manny Nosowsky |
| BACKUS | Tue Dec 19, 2006 | Jim of "Gilligan's Island" | Sarah Keller |
| BLEAH | Sun Jan 26, 2020 | "Ugh!" | Erik Agard |
| COLONIES | Sun Jun 4, 2023 | Onetime set of 13 | Rafael Musa |
| CSTUDENT | Fri Jun 9, 2006 | Honor society rejectee | Manny Nosowsky |
| DADDIES | Sat Apr 6, 2002 | Pops | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DIMINISH | Tue Nov 26, 1996 | Reduce in size | S. Spadaccini |
| DOWNEY | Sun Nov 29, 2015 | He played Chaplin in "Chaplin" | Alex Vratsanos |
| FENNELS | Sun Jan 6, 2008 | Aniselike herbs | Lynn Lempel |
| FORCER | Thu Apr 15, 2004 | Coercer | Manny Nosowsky |
| FORMLETTERS | Sun Nov 9, 2014 | Impersonal notes ... or what four groups of this puzzle's answers do (totaling 11 words) | Tom McCoy |
| GILLIS | Sun Mar 25, 2001 | Sitcom character with "many loves" | Trip Payne |
| GOOGLING | Wed Apr 30, 2008 | Solver's online recourse | Henry Hook |
| GROUNDEDFORLIFE | Sun Mar 6, 2011 | Prohibit Mr. McMahon from ever socializing again? | David Levinson Wilk |
| GROWTHPOTENTIAL | Wed Nov 27, 2019 | Ability of a company to expand ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | Matthew Sewell and Jeff Chen |
| HANDEDOVER | Wed Feb 5, 2020 | Ceded control of | Ross Trudeau |
| ISSILLY | Sun May 8, 1994 | Clowns around | Ralph G. Beaman |
| LOWIQS | Mon Jun 30, 2008 | Reasons for special ed | Lynn Lempel |
| MACGYVERS | Sat Aug 17, 2024 | Fashions out of whatever's lying around | Brandon Koppy |
| MONDRIAN | Sun Oct 18, 2009 | *"Tableau 2" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| NOBODYELSES | Sun Jan 22, 1995 | Mayan? | Frances Hansen |
| ONABOUT | Fri Nov 15, 2013 | Speaking of repeatedly, to a Brit | David Woolf |
| PAINTERS | Tue Jul 31, 2018 | Professionals who put on coats for work | David Woolf |
| PROPHESY | Thu May 10, 2007 | Predict | Peter A. Collins |
| PUTINWRITING | Wed Jan 1, 2025 | Set down on paper | Seth Bisen-Hersh and Jeff Chen |
| RECOMPENSE | Fri Feb 4, 2000 | Payback | Dana Motley |
| RIPLEYS | Thu May 5, 2016 | Classic Sunday newspaper feature that spawned multiple museums, informally | David Poole |
| SEAOFLOVE | Sun Mar 12, 2000 | 1989 Al Pacino movie | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SINCERELY | Mon Dec 2, 1996 | Complimentary close | D. L. Wilk |
| SIXFEETUNDER | Sun Aug 15, 2021 | Pushing up daisies | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| SMASHEROO | Sat Sep 9, 2006 | Blockbuster | Bob Klahn |
| STUMPFOR | Fri Dec 29, 2023 | Help out on the campaign trail | Robyn Weintraub |
| TIERI | Sun Jan 24, 2016 | Basic vocabulary level in Common Core programs | Francis Heaney and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| UNLIMITED | Fri Feb 15, 2008 | Vast | Patrick Berry |
| VOUCHSAFE | Sun Jun 10, 2012 | Deign | Xan Vongsathorn |
| WAYTO | Sun Jun 30, 2002 | "___ go!" | Joe DiPietro |
| WECAN | Sat Feb 7, 2015 | "___ Do It!" (Rosie the Riveter motto) | Byron Walden |
| WHITEFLAG | Fri Nov 13, 2015 | Standard of negotiation | Patrick Berry |
| WNBAFINALS | Thu Jan 25, 2024 | The Mercury might be in this | Sam Ezersky |