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 50,494 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANGLEIRON | Fri Jul 1, 2011 | Structural piece bent 90° along its long dimension | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| BLOODLUST | Wed Jan 19, 2011 | Rambo's drive | Kristian House |
| BREAKUPTHEBANKS | Wed Oct 25, 2017 | Wall Street reformer's urging ... or a hint to this puzzle's shaded squares | Jules P. Markey |
| BUILDINGSPECS | Thu Jul 24, 2003 | Contractor's determination | Rich Norris |
| CAFFEINEFIX | Sun Feb 3, 2019 | Joe can provide it | Natan Last |
| CATECHISM | Sun Aug 22, 2021 | Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education | Stephen McCarthy |
| CONTINENTALDRIFT | Sun Nov 13, 2005 | Earthquake cause | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DRIVELED | Sun Mar 10, 1996 | Talked childishly | F. & L. Sabin |
| ERYTHROCYTE | Fri Jan 16, 2015 | Hemoglobin carrier | Michael Wiesenberg |
| EVENEDOUT | Wed Oct 27, 2021 | Made level | Johanna Fenimore |
| GAFFERS | Sat Mar 18, 2017 | Set electricians | Roland Huget |
| HUMOROUSLY | Fri Jun 18, 1999 | With wit | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ISSOBER | Sun Feb 4, 1996 | Practices teetotalism | D. J. Kahn |
| LOCKES | Sun Jun 30, 1996 | Empiricist John and others | R. Norris |
| LUNATICS | Fri Nov 21, 2008 | Bedlamites | Patrick Berry |
| MENSROOM | Mon Oct 11, 1999 | Public facility | Gregory E. Paul |
| MILKPUNCH | Tue Aug 26, 2014 | *Eggnog relative | Victor Fleming |
| NORMALDAY | Tue May 16, 2017 | MARYLAND + O = Period in which nothing special happens | Bruce Haight |
| OHPRETTYWOMAN | Sun Sep 17, 2023 | Comment to Aphrodite (Roy Orbison) | Jill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp |
| OLDALBUMS | Sun Feb 1, 1998 | "...a tune from one of their ___" | Merl Reagle |
| ONCEUPONATIMEINMEXICO | Sun Jan 2, 2011 | 2003 film "Érase una Vez" | David Levinson Wilk |
| ONTHERECORD | Mon Jun 19, 1995 | Official | Gregory E. Paul |
| QUARTERLIES | Tue Apr 25, 2023 | "It's worth only 20 cents," "It has Abe Lincoln on it" and others? | Grant Boroughs |
| RAMBLES | Thu Nov 17, 2016 | Doesn't stick to the topic | Timothy Polin and Joe Krozel |
| RHODO | Thu Mar 14, 2013 | Showy bloom, to flower enthusiasts | Mike Buckley |
| ROLLSIN | Wed Mar 26, 2014 | Arrives, as fog | Alex Vratsanos |
| SHOOTINGS | Tue Jun 9, 2015 | Events for the police blotter | Roy Leban |
| SHOULDWE | Sun Feb 9, 2025 | "So is this our plan or not?" | Rich Katz and Jeff Chen |
| SIXPENCE | Fri Feb 16, 2001 | Money in a classic song title | Bob Klahn |
| SLIPCOVERED | Thu Mar 31, 2011 | Saved, as a seat? | Jeremy Horwitz and Tyler Hinman |
| STAAT | Sun Jul 23, 1995 | Division of Germany | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| STAGNES | Fri May 7, 2010 | Symbol of chastity | Tyler Hinman |
| SUPERVHS | Sun Apr 3, 2022 | Enhanced tape format released in 1987 | Byron Walden |
| SURGEONGENERALS | Fri Nov 11, 2011 | Medical bigwigs | Alex Vratsanos |
| THISISATEST | Sun Aug 25, 2013 | Emergency Broadcast System opening | Victor Barocas |
| TRYTOSEEITMYWAY | Fri Nov 8, 2013 | Opening line of a 1966 #1 Beatles hit | Alan Arbesfeld |
| TURNUPTHEVOLUME | Fri Feb 3, 2006 | Make it louder | Manny Nosowsky |
| WAROFWORDS | Mon Jul 11, 2016 | Heated argument | Freddie Cheng |
| WASHCYCLE | Thu Jul 12, 2007 | Ten minutes in a laundry, maybe | Michael Shteyman |
| YVETTES | Sat Jul 21, 2007 | "Moesha" actress Wilson and others | Raymond C. Young |