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 51,017 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASOUR | Sun Sep 25, 2011 | Hit ___ note | Paul Hunsberger |
| BESQUARE | Sun Feb 15, 2015 | - | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| BOGEYING | Tue Sep 23, 2014 | Barely missing par | Gerry Wildenberg |
| BURNINGMAN | Sat Nov 21, 2020 | Annual mass event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert | Sam Ezersky |
| CHAMPAGNETOAST | Sun Jan 1, 1995 | New Year's welcome, frequently | Henry Hook |
| DISMISS | Sun Nov 24, 1996 | Send away | M. Jacobson |
| DOWNGOESFRAZIER | Fri Jul 25, 2014 | Repeated cry in a 1973 fight | Peter A. Collins |
| EUCLASE | Sat Sep 10, 1994 | Crystal mineral | Rand H. Burns |
| GAYBARS | Sun Oct 5, 2025 | Venues like New York City's Stonewall Inn | John Kugelman |
| GETSTHEICK | Mon May 4, 2026 | Suddenly feels repulsed by a romantic partner ... or a hint to 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across | Kate Schutzengel |
| GOTOELEVEN | Mon Aug 14, 2023 | Step 1: Exceed the limit à la Spinal Tap | Simon Marotte and Trenton Lee Stewart |
| GROUPCHAT | Fri Aug 14, 2020 | Words with friends on one's phone, say | Nam Jin Yoon |
| HASDOWN | Wed Jun 19, 2024 | Knows by heart | Brad Wiegmann |
| HEARTPOUNDING | Tue Aug 24, 1999 | Scary | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| JULIANBREAM | Tue Nov 15, 2011 | *Classical guitarist with four Grammys | Gareth Bain |
| LIECHTENSTEINER | Sat Dec 29, 2012 | Alpine native | Joe Krozel |
| LOADEDUPON | Sat Feb 16, 2013 | Stockpiled | Michael Ashley |
| MANSPREAD | Thu Aug 30, 2018 | Annoyance from a subway seatmate | Grant Thackray |
| MUDTIRE | Sun Dec 15, 2019 | Bit of off-road equipment | Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen |
| OLIVERPLATT | Sun Dec 10, 2017 | "Frost/Nixon" actor, 2008 | Erik Agard and Laura Braunstein |
| OUTSIDEAGITATOR | Fri Jan 7, 2000 | One stirring up trouble for management | Manny Nosowsky |
| OVERAWED | Sun Apr 11, 2004 | Too wowed for words | Patrick Merrell |
| OVERLEND | Thu Jan 25, 1996 | Make too great an advance | D. Kahn |
| PAREBACK | Sun Sep 11, 2016 | Trim | Ned White and George Barany |
| PRANKSTER | Wed Apr 1, 2015 | Speaker of the clues for 18-, 24-, 38- and 51-Across | Sharon Delorme |
| PULLUPTOTHECURB | Tue Jun 13, 2000 | Park | Peter Gordon |
| RAILBARONS | Sat Mar 8, 2008 | Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould | Brad Wilber |
| RETIRETHESIDE | Sat Feb 7, 2026 | What a pitcher tries to do | Mark Diehl |
| ROTISSERIEOVENS | Fri Aug 13, 2021 | Revolutionary inventions in the cooking world? | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
| SEATOFTHEPANTS | Fri Dec 26, 2014 | Based on instinct and guesswork | Patrick Berry |
| SECONDCUP | Wed Jun 16, 1999 | 1/60-minute drink? | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| SEEMING | Sat Nov 18, 2023 | Supposed | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| SPECTOR | Sun Oct 22, 2023 | Singer Ronnie of the Ronettes | Robert Ryan |
| STUFFEDSOLE | Mon Nov 18, 2002 | Surf serving #4 | Nancy Salomon and Gail Grabowski |
| TONGUEINCHEEK | Thu Sep 7, 1995 | Not serious | Rich Norris |
| TRUEWEST | Fri Jul 10, 2020 | Sam Shepard play about warring brothers | John Lieb |
| TUNINGIN | Sun May 18, 2025 | Getting ready to listen | Garrett Chalfin |
| TURKEYWRAPS | Fri Nov 5, 2021 | Deli lunch options | Joseph Greenbaum |
| UPPERS | Thu Jan 29, 2009 | Amphetamines, e.g. | Barry C. Silk |
| WATERPITCHERS | Thu May 14, 2026 | Things often getting free refills | Simeon Seigel |