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 51,015 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATTORNEYS | Fri Mar 25, 2005 | Adept arguers | Harvey Estes |
| BEIGNET | Wed Aug 4, 2021 | Popular New Orleans dessert | Brandon Koppy |
| BENEFIC | Fri Dec 2, 2011 | Of some good | Ed Sessa |
| BILLIEHOLIDAY | Tue Nov 28, 2006 | "Lady Sings the Blues" autobiographer | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BLANKTAPE | Thu Dec 12, 1996 | Recording session need | J. R. Conrad |
| BLESSMEFATHER | Sat Jun 27, 2009 | Start of a confession | Trip Payne |
| BRIDGETJONESSDIARY | Sun Oct 2, 2005 | 1996 Helen Fielding book made into a film starring Renée Zellweger | Randolph Ross |
| CAMPBELLS | Sun Jul 2, 2000 | Name on a can | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| COMMUNICATE | Mon Nov 13, 2017 | See 20-Across | Peter A. Collins |
| DEKKO | Sun Oct 7, 2001 | Glimpse, in British slang | Patrick Berry |
| EJECTING | Sun Apr 29, 2001 | Bouncer's work | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ETHNOCENTRICITY | Fri Mar 11, 2005 | Chauvinist's view | Manny Nosowsky |
| FAKENAMES | Wed Jan 1, 2020 | Jokey parts of prank calls, often | Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen |
| GOEXTINCT | Sun Apr 14, 2024 | Disappear ... like the circled creatures might do, if not for the 112-/114-Across | John Rippe and Jeff Chen |
| HASALOTGOINGFOR | Fri Apr 11, 2008 | Is blessed with many assets, before "him" or "her" | Manny Nosowsky |
| HEMMING | Tue Aug 20, 2013 | Fixing, as the bottom of a skirt | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo |
| HOMEVIDEOS | Thu Nov 5, 2015 | Many camcorder recordings | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| HOWLER | Thu Feb 16, 2012 | Screwup | Jim Page |
| KINDLY | Mon Oct 15, 2018 | In a gentle manner | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| KINGSRANSOM | Sat Aug 31, 2013 | Fortune | Josh Knapp |
| MCDOUBLES | Wed Jan 12, 2022 | Two-patty burgers introduced in 1997 | Adam Aaronson |
| NONSELF | Wed Apr 20, 2016 | Material that is foreign to the body | Tom McCoy |
| NOTEOF | Sun Jan 4, 1998 | ___ condolence | Mark Danna |
| OPTICALFIBER | Mon Oct 15, 2018 | Cable material that transmits data using light | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| PATENTLEATHER | Wed Apr 27, 2011 | Shiny shoe material | William I. Johnston |
| PATHAND | Sat Oct 19, 2019 | Royal flush in draw poker, say | Byron Walden |
| PENKNIFE | Tue May 9, 2006 | Quill cutter, once | Patrick Blindauer |
| PLAINVIEWNEBRASKA | Sun Jan 21, 2001 | STATE TOURISM INCREASES AMONG ORDINARY FOLK | Con Pederson |
| QUICKOATS | Mon Oct 13, 2025 | Microwaveable breakfast staple | Katherine Xiong |
| RANSMACKDABINTO | Thu Dec 12, 2019 | Unexpectedly came face to face with | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| REGALLY | Fri Oct 3, 2003 | With splendor | Manny Nosowsky |
| RETURNOFDOCTORX | Sun Mar 16, 2014 | *Horror flick starring Humphrey Bogart as a mad scientist, with "The" | Jeremy Newton |
| SEATASSIGNMENT | Sun Jan 4, 1998 | "While we're in the air, write an essay on aviation" | Mark Danna |
| SLIPSLOP | Tue Sep 23, 2014 | Twaddle | Gerry Wildenberg |
| STANDNEXTTO | Sat Dec 10, 2016 | Rub elbows with, say | Byron Walden |
| SWEETTREAT | Fri Apr 2, 2021 | Rhyming term for a dessert | Kyra Wilson and Sophia Maymudes |
| SYE | Sat Nov 4, 1995 | Sink, in olden times | Frank A. Longo |
| TESTFOR | Sat Nov 30, 1996 | Try to find, in a doctor's office | R. Norris |
| UNSWEPT | Fri Feb 19, 2021 | Messy, as a floor | Amanda Rafkin |
| VOTEDOUT | Sat May 21, 2022 | Unseated | Ryan McCarty and Yacob Yonas |