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 50,246 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFOND | Tue Jan 9, 2001 | "I bid you ___ farewell" | Nick Grivas |
| ASICE | Sat Aug 16, 1997 | "Cold ___" (Foreigner hit) | Matt Gaffney |
| ATTACHEDTO | Thu Mar 2, 2017 | Really quite taken with | Peter Gordon |
| BADHABIT | Thu Feb 2, 2006 | Snuff, for some | Byron Walden |
| BARTERERS | Thu Nov 4, 2004 | Trade association? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BIGGERTHOMAS | Sun Sep 29, 2002 | Native Son | Randolph Ross |
| BREAKSOUT | Sat Mar 27, 2021 | Soars to success | Michael Hawkins |
| CDVI | Sun Jun 6, 2010 | Year Attila the Hun was born | Daniel A. Finan |
| CREDITWORTHY | Thu Jun 1, 2023 | Reliable, to a lender | David and Karen and Paul Steinberg |
| DELIVERYSERVICE | Mon Oct 4, 2021 | FedEx or DHL | Christina Iverson and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| EUPHRATES | Tue Nov 10, 2015 | River to the Tigris | Will Treece |
| FIREHOSES | Fri Jul 18, 2014 | Things that wind up on trucks | Ian Livengood |
| FOLLOWYOURBLISS | Mon Nov 25, 2024 | *Advice to someone seeking happiness | Dena R. Witkes |
| ICECOLDBEERHERE | Fri Sep 15, 2023 | Draft announcement? | David A. Rubin and Lee Demertzis |
| INAPEN | Fri Jun 19, 2015 | Corralled | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| INDUED | Fri Apr 26, 1996 | Provided: Var. | W. Johnson |
| INEEDALIFT | Fri Nov 29, 2019 | "My car's out of commission" | Sam Buchbinder |
| INTERNALDRIVE | Wed Dec 31, 2014 | *Essential feature of a PC | David Woolf |
| JAMBOREE | Sat Mar 19, 1994 | Bash | Manny Nosowsky |
| JUNTO | Thu Apr 11, 1996 | Cabal | R. Hamel |
| KEVINCOSTNER | Tue Dec 31, 2002 | 35-Across in 1994 | Gene Newman |
| KIDDY | Wed Feb 9, 2011 | Kind of pool or ride | Victor Barocas |
| KNOWTHEDRILL | Sun Feb 25, 2024 | I visited a dentist and now I … | Scott Hogan and Katie Hale |
| MANUTE | Sun Apr 25, 1999 | Basketball's ___ Bol | Joe DiPietro |
| MTMCKINLEY | Thu Aug 6, 1998 | It was first climbed in 1913 | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| NOMATCH | Sat Sep 16, 2006 | Hardly a worthy competitor | Michael Shteyman |
| OILRIGGER | Thu Mar 27, 2003 | Nicholson role in "Five Easy Pieces" | David J. Kahn |
| ONESTEPATATIME | Fri Sep 23, 2022 | Not in bounds? | Erik Agard |
| PAYASYOUGO | Sat Oct 8, 2016 | Type of mobile phone plan | Julian Lim |
| PAYROLLS | Sun Jun 21, 2009 | Employers must meet them | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| REMASTERS | Wed Apr 3, 2019 | Enhances, as an original recording | Ross Trudeau |
| RETRADE | Sat Apr 19, 2003 | Not keep in the bargain | Manny Nosowsky |
| SHORTRIB | Sat May 18, 2019 | Often-braised cut of beef | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| SLEEPINGIN | Sat Jan 28, 2023 | Still not up, say | Kevin Christian |
| SWORDHILT | Wed Apr 2, 2014 | Weapon part that's out of this world? | David Levinson Wilk |
| TABLATURES | Fri Jul 1, 2011 | Sheet music notations | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| TICKLETHEIVORIES | Sun Jul 5, 2020 | Play piano, informally | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| TOWHEEZE | Sun Aug 21, 1994 | Allergy victim's fate | Ted Fulton |
| TREELOT | Wed Oct 8, 2025 | Place to buy a fir at Christmas | Daniel Trujillo Diaz |
| TRUK | Thu Jan 26, 2012 | W.W. II Pacific battle site | Alan Arbesfeld |