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 50,601 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFFLUENT | Tue Dec 31, 1996 | Well-to-do | A. S. Verdesca |
| AMERICANBISON | Tue Jan 13, 2015 | Largest wild animal in the United States | Michael Blake |
| AWKWARDLY | Wed Jan 19, 1994 | Betraying clumsiness | Stanley Newman |
| BITTERHARVEST | Fri Dec 20, 2002 | Unhappy result | Manny Nosowsky |
| BREADSTICK | Thu May 1, 2008 | Crispy appetizer | Jim Leeds |
| CELEBRITYCHEF | Sat Jun 23, 2018 | Childlike personality? | Byron Walden |
| CLYM | Sun Jun 30, 1996 | ___Yeobright (Hardy's native) | R. Norris |
| COERCER | Sun Jun 29, 1997 | Blackmailer, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| DETROITMICHIGAN | Fri Jul 23, 2004 | Home of America's first automatic traffic light, ca. 1920 | David Levinson Wilk |
| DINKIER | Sat Oct 4, 2014 | Less significant | Julian Lim |
| FEDERALESE | Fri Jul 9, 1999 | Bureaucratic buzzwords | Ingrid Truemper |
| FIREBUGS | Mon Jul 7, 2003 | Dismiss gangster Moran? | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| GOTTHESHAFT | Sat May 11, 2024 | Was treated unfairly, informally | Billy Bratton |
| GUMBOS | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | Cajun dishes | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HIGHMAINTENANCE | Sat Nov 24, 2018 | Demanding | David Steinberg |
| HOMEJAMES | Sat May 18, 1996 | Order to a chauffeur | M. Nosowsky |
| JILTEE | Fri Nov 1, 2013 | Dickens's Miss Havisham, famously | Brad Wilber |
| LATCHES | Sun Apr 29, 2018 | Some fasteners | Peter Wentz |
| METAPHYSICIAN | Mon Sep 28, 2020 | Was introduced to the doctor? | Lynn Lempel |
| MITERJOINT | Tue Mar 3, 2009 | Prison for bishops? | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| MULLOVER | Wed May 15, 2013 | Reflect deeply on | David Sullivan |
| ORONTES | Fri Dec 16, 1994 | Mideast river to the Mediterranean | A.J. Santora |
| PINELLAS | Sun May 13, 2001 | ___ Park, Fla. | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| PONZISCHEMER | Sun Jun 27, 2010 | Icon | Michael J. Doran |
| POTSHERD | Thu Nov 23, 1995 | Earthenware fragment | Dorothy Elliott |
| REBELLIOUSNESS | Sun Jun 23, 1996 | Insurrectionism | F. Hansen |
| REPUBLICAN | Thu Feb 11, 2010 | See 62-Down | Peter A. Collins |
| RULESOUT | Thu Jul 5, 2001 | Eliminates | Peter Gordon |
| RYEGRASS | Wed Apr 27, 2016 | Wimbledon court surface | Jeff Stillman |
| STARTEDIN | Fri Oct 4, 2002 | Began | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| THEBLACKPANTHER | Tue Sep 22, 2020 | Comic book character with the title role in a blockbuster 2018 film | Jeremy Newton |
| THEYIPS | Fri May 3, 2024 | Athlete's affliction, informally | Eli Cotham |
| TIDALWAVE | Fri May 17, 2024 | Massive onrush | Hemant Mehta |
| TIDIESUP | Fri Jan 31, 2014 | Sets things straight | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| TOGET | Sun May 3, 2009 | Play hard ___ | Caleb Madison |
| TOOSLOW | Sat Nov 26, 2022 | Not keeping up | Kanyin Ajayi |
| TVSTUDIO | Tue Apr 16, 2019 | "APPLAUSE" sign locale | Gary Cee |
| UNMODERN | Sun Jan 3, 1999 | Old-fashioned | Randolph Ross |
| UPTURNED | Mon Mar 18, 2013 | Like a snob's nose | Daniel Landman |
| VISIGOTH | Thu May 28, 2020 | Moor's foe in the early eighth century | Tracy Bennett |