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 50,425 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADEEMS | Sat Sep 2, 2006 | Revokes, as a legacy, at law | Mel Rosen |
| AIRWAR | Mon Mar 2, 2009 | Combat with fighter-bombers | Lynn Lempel |
| BAGGERS | Mon Dec 11, 1995 | Checkout line assistants | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BANANAOIL | Thu Oct 20, 2011 | Insincere flattery, in slang | Patrick Berry |
| BULLSNAKE | Fri Jan 13, 2006 | Harmless reptile with a dangerous-sounding name | Eric Berlin |
| CALLEDIN | Sat Jan 11, 1997 | Removed from circulation | R. Norris |
| CENTRALHEATER | Mon Dec 14, 2009 | Furnace, e.g. | Tim Darling |
| COMBOMEAL | Fri Jun 15, 2012 | Money-saving fast-food option | Mark Diehl |
| DERON | Sun Dec 1, 2013 | Three-time N.B.A. All-Star Williams | Alan DerKazarian |
| DOLORS | Thu Jul 17, 2003 | Sorrows | Robert H. Wolfe |
| DONTWORRYBABY | Tue Jul 1, 2014 | Reassurance from the Beach Boys, 1964 | Gary Cee |
| EVILINTENTIONS | Sat Oct 6, 2018 | Bad designs | Lewis Dean Hyatt |
| EXPOSETO | Sun Nov 13, 2011 | Show, as something new | Jeremy Newton and Tony Orbach |
| EYESONTHEPRIZE | Tue Oct 4, 2022 | "Stay focused"... or a punny description of the placement of this puzzle's circled letters | Joe Deeney |
| FATAS | Sun Sep 17, 1995 | _____ a pig | Stanley Newman |
| GOONTIPTOE | Sat Oct 8, 2005 | Creep | Byron Walden |
| GUMMIER | Wed Jan 29, 2020 | More sticky and viscous | Jeremy Newton |
| ILOVEYOUMAN | Thu Nov 8, 2012 | 2009 bromance film | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| INMEMORY | Sun Nov 19, 2017 | As far as one can recall | Tom McCoy |
| INTERMIXES | Wed Oct 19, 1994 | Blends | D.J. Listort |
| JIPIJAPA | Fri Jan 29, 1999 | Panama hat material | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon |
| KINDLIER | Fri Mar 21, 2014 | More sympathetic | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| LANGSTONHUGHES | Tue Feb 27, 2018 | "Montage of a Dream Deferred" poet | Ross Trudeau |
| LEGERDEMAIN | Fri Jan 2, 2015 | Hocus-pocus | David Steinberg |
| MISSCLEO | Tue Jun 27, 2023 | Famed 1990s TV psychic | Anthony Gisonda |
| NONSTOPS | Wed Jun 3, 2009 | Some long flights | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| OLDDISHES | Mon Mar 28, 2011 | Much-used dinnerware | Robyn Weintraub |
| PARTTIMER | Sat Jan 4, 2014 | One not getting benefits, say | Kyle Dolan |
| SAMUELS | Sun Dec 22, 2019 | A couple of Bible books | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| SCOUTTROOP | Fri Oct 19, 2012 | Boy band? | Patrick Berry |
| SMIFF | Tue Mar 9, 2010 | Knucklehead ___, Paul Winchell dummy of old TV | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| SNACKMIX | Mon Dec 23, 2024 | *Hodgepodge bowlful of munchies | Glenn Cook |
| SURROUNDSOUND | Mon Jun 29, 2020 | Home theater feature, maybe | Peter Gordon |
| THEUNIVERSE | Sat May 4, 2019 | Space for everything | Mark Diehl |
| TIGHTRACE | Sun Jul 1, 2018 | Election that's too close to call | Sam Trabucco |
| TODAYYEARSOLD | Fri Dec 5, 2025 | Age at which you just learned something you should have realized before, facetiously | James McCarron |
| TOPANGA | Thu Jul 3, 2025 | State park in the Santa Monica Mountains | Adam Wagner |
| TOTTERY | Sat Apr 28, 2001 | Unstable | Rich Norris |
| WATERCYCLE | Wed Dec 13, 2023 | Natural process suggested by the starts of 17-, 24-, 26-, 45- and 47-Across | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| ZENOS | Thu Oct 19, 2006 | ___ paradox | Raymond C. Young |