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 50,279 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUTONYM | Tue Mar 16, 2021 | Name of self-identification, as "Deutsche" for "Germans" | Lindsey Hobbs |
| BEFUDDLES | Sun Sep 7, 2014 | Discombobulates | Tracy Gray and Jeff Chen |
| BRUSHEDUP | Fri Sep 1, 2000 | Reviewed | Joe DiPietro |
| CANTSAY | Fri Jul 6, 2012 | "Your guess is as good as mine" | Peter Wentz |
| CHEESEHEAD | Sun Apr 4, 2010 | *Green Bay Packers fan | Bob Klahn |
| CORRIDORS | Sun Jan 21, 2024 | Passages | John Westwig |
| DALECARNEGIE | Thu Oct 22, 2015 | "How to Win Friends and Influence People" writer | Tracy Gray |
| ENDNOW | Sat Aug 25, 2018 | Program-closing command on a PC | Sam Ezersky |
| ETYPES | Mon Jun 29, 2009 | Classic Jaguars | Paula Gamache |
| EXPANSIONSLOT | Sun Oct 28, 2001 | S L O T | Michael Ashley |
| FINEBEMAD | Fri Sep 5, 2025 | "OK, don't accept my apology then!" | Bryan Cheong |
| GROUPINGS | Wed Oct 17, 2012 | Collections of like objects | Peter Koetters |
| HELENKELLER | Fri Dec 21, 2018 | Person depicted on the Alabama state quarter | Peter A. Collins |
| HOLLIES | Sun Dec 21, 2014 | Some Christmas decorations | Joel Fagliano |
| HULLED | Sun Sep 22, 2013 | Like much processed wheat | Mike Selinker |
| ISCREWEDUP | Sat Sep 14, 2013 | "My bad" | Jeff Chen |
| ITSALLPOLITICS | Thu Feb 9, 2006 | 60-Across, at the office | Ethan Cooper |
| LUNTS | Sun Feb 14, 2010 | Lynn Fontanne and her husband | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| MAYIBEOFHELP | Thu Jan 1, 1998 | Clothing salesman's greeting | Jim Page |
| NATTYICE | Sat Aug 17, 2024 | Low-cost lager from Anheuser-Busch, familiarly | Brandon Koppy |
| NEEDLETRADE | Sat Oct 13, 2001 | Tailor's business | Jim Page |
| OCEANOGRAPHER | Sun Feb 18, 2001 | UNDERLINE | David J. Kahn |
| OHGIRL | Thu Aug 4, 1994 | #1 hit for the Chi-Lites, 1972 | Jim Page |
| ORIENTEER | Sat Jul 8, 2017 | Competitor with a map and compass | David Steinberg |
| OUTLIVES | Sun Dec 13, 2009 | Is around longer than | Mike Shenk |
| PILOUS | Sat Jan 10, 1998 | Thick with hair | Mark Diehl |
| PROPANES | Fri Oct 10, 1997 | Industrial fuels | Shannon Burns |
| RAVINGS | Sun Dec 2, 2012 | Lunatics' outbursts | Steven E. Atwood |
| RINSEDOUT | Fri Dec 19, 2014 | No longer sudsy, say | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| SARTORIAL | Tue Jun 28, 2022 | Tailoring-related | Scott Graham |
| SOUNDOFF | Wed Jul 11, 2018 | Express one's opinion in no uncertain terms | Michael Hawkins |
| SPHERULE | Tue Jul 1, 1997 | Small ball | Fred Piscop |
| SQUELCH | Thu Dec 4, 2008 | Silence | Barry C. Silk |
| SQUIRELY | Sat Jul 8, 2006 | Noble and chivalrous | Barry C. Silk |
| STENTON | Sat Jan 6, 2007 | Sir Frank ___, historian of Anglo-Saxon England | Robert H. Wolfe |
| TAKEOUTOFCONTEXT | Sun Aug 30, 2009 | -IRC-MS-ANCES | Ashish Vengsarkar and Narayan Venkatasubramanyan |
| TIPSILY | Sun May 19, 2002 | Drunkenly | Cathy Millhauser |
| TRINAL | Fri Jan 21, 1994 | Threefold | A.J. Santora |
| TURNTOGOLD | Sun Apr 9, 2017 | Work out spectacularly | Byron Walden |
| YOICKS | Mon Nov 3, 2014 | Bygone cry of high spirits | Janet R. Bender |