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 51,111 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAMBOOS | Thu Oct 31, 1996 | Furniture materials | L. Sidway |
| BEWITH | Sat May 4, 2019 | Accompany | Mark Diehl |
| BIRDEGG | Fri Oct 27, 1995 | Audubon specimen | Mark Diehl |
| BLUECAP | Sun Mar 22, 2020 | Another name for the cornflower | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BOOKREVIEW | Sat Feb 9, 2019 | Novel opinion? | Ryan McCarty |
| BOWKNOT | Sat Mar 20, 1999 | Option for the present | Chuck Deodene |
| CHOICES | Wed Jun 4, 2014 | One from column A, one from column B, etc. | Jim Hilger |
| COTANS | Sun Aug 4, 2019 | Trig ratios | Will Nediger |
| CUTABOVE | Sat Apr 9, 2016 | Better than, with "a" | David Phillips |
| DERON | Sun Dec 1, 2013 | Three-time N.B.A. All-Star Williams | Alan DerKazarian |
| DOGBREED | Wed Feb 11, 2026 | Newfoundland or Labrador retriever | Joseph Gangi |
| ECIGARETTE | Sat Sep 27, 2014 | Smoke without fire? | Martin Ashwood-Smith and George Barany |
| HOLDEVERYTHING | Wed Mar 1, 1995 | "Stop!" | Lois Sidway |
| HUILE | Tue Oct 11, 1994 | Oil, in Orleans | Bernice Gordon |
| IMAGINED | Wed Nov 8, 2023 | Not real | Daniel Hrynick |
| ISITLIVE | Sun Feb 15, 2015 | Question asked in classic 1970s ads | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| JOHNLAW | Sat Apr 4, 1998 | Policeman, in slang | Rich Norris |
| JOSIP | Fri May 21, 2010 | Marshal Tito's first name | Patrick Berry |
| LAKECOMO | Wed Jun 24, 2020 | Italian tourist destination | Joe Deeney |
| LAZYSLOB | Fri Jul 30, 2010 | Epithet for an annoying roommate | Kevin G. Der |
| MEETJOHNDOE | Tue Jan 24, 2012 | 1941 Frank Capra film | Alex Boisvert |
| MINIDONUTS | Sat Aug 30, 2025 | Little dippers? | Maddy Ziegler |
| MISJUDGE | Thu May 17, 2001 | Think wrongly of | David J. Kahn |
| NANOTECH | Fri Feb 18, 2022 | Small-scale study, for short | Aimee Lucido |
| NIAMEY | Sat Oct 19, 1996 | Niger's capital | G. Petgrave |
| OFFICETEMPS | Sun Nov 4, 2012 | Nine to five, generally, in Grenoble? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| POUREDOUT | Sat Jan 5, 2008 | Dumped | Paula Gamache |
| PUSHIEST | Wed Sep 10, 2003 | Most insistent | Patrick Berry |
| RANCIRCLESAROUND | Sun Sep 8, 1996 | Easily beat | R. H. Wolfe |
| RAVEREVIEWS | Sat May 28, 2022 | Glowing things | Joseph Greenbaum |
| REWARDER | Wed Sep 24, 2003 | One offering encouragement | Sheldon Benardo |
| ROMAIN | Wed May 12, 2010 | 1915 Literature Nobelist ___ Rolland | Pete Muller |
| SKEEZY | Fri Jan 27, 2023 | Morally repulsive, in slang | Joe Deeney |
| STRETCHERBEARER | Fri Jun 4, 2010 | Battlefield attendant | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SUKARNO | Tue Mar 24, 1998 | Indonesia's first president | Fred Piscop |
| THEGREAT | Fri May 29, 2009 | See 12-Down | Randolph Ross |
| TOHOLD | Sun Jul 12, 1998 | Wedding vow infinitive | Henry Hook |
| TOWELRACK | Mon Feb 22, 2021 | Bar from the bathroom? | Barbara Lin |
| TWIGGY | Mon Oct 28, 2002 | Thin 1960's supermodel | Randy Sowell |
| UNLIKELY | Tue Jun 16, 2009 | Improbable | Paula Gamache |