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 50,014 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABUELO | Sun Aug 28, 2022 | Granada grandpa | Ori Brian |
| ALIENIST | Sun Dec 5, 1993 | Court psychiatrist | Manny Nosowsky |
| BELLSARERINGING | Mon Mar 7, 1994 | l956 Comden-Green-Styne collaboration | Alex K. Justin |
| BULLETHOLE | Tue Mar 4, 2003 | Bit of forensic evidence | Alan Arbesfeld |
| COMESONTO | Sat Aug 13, 2011 | Propositions | Tim Croce |
| CRACKASMILE | Wed Oct 12, 2011 | Begin to grin | Gary Cee |
| CURLEWS | Sun Sep 8, 2002 | Alaska nesters | Rich Norris |
| ELLIPSES | Fri Nov 9, 2012 | Some quotation marks | Barry C. Silk |
| EXCHANGERATE | Tue May 26, 2009 | Two dollars per pound, say | Mike Nothnagel |
| EXTRALARGEPIZZAS | Sun May 17, 2020 | Items in 18" x 18" x 1 3/4" boxes | Byron Walden |
| FORELIMBS | Sat Feb 15, 2014 | Flippers, e.g. | Julian Lim |
| GAGORDERS | Mon Jan 30, 2012 | Judges' decrees to keep information from the public | Francesco Trogu |
| GRANDPIANO | Sun Aug 6, 2023 | Master keys? | Lisa Senzel and Jeff Chen |
| HAPENNY | Sun Jun 23, 2024 | Two farthings, colloquially | Michael Schlossberg |
| IHM | Sun Jul 24, 1994 | German pronoun | Matt Gaffney |
| ITSANO | Thu Jul 27, 2023 | Words of rejection | Guilherme Gilioli |
| MASSAGESONESEGO | Fri Jan 18, 2013 | Does some flattering | Tim Croce |
| MCADAM | Sun Mar 18, 2012 | Scottish inventor and road builder John Loudon ___ | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| MERRIMACK | Sat Apr 16, 2005 | Thoreau's "A Week on the Concord and ___ Rivers" | Gary Steinmehl |
| MINDMELDS | Sat Mar 22, 2025 | Telepathic connections | Katie Hoody |
| MRBASEBALL | Tue May 9, 1995 | Tom Selleck sports film | Gregory E. Paul |
| MUANG | Thu May 15, 1997 | ___ Thai (official name of Thailand) | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| NOONEELSE | Wed May 20, 2009 | Only you | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| PAIUTES | Sat Dec 21, 1996 | Indians of the Great Basin | F. Piscop |
| PAYTOILET | Sat Aug 8, 2020 | Place to go that requires cash at the door? | Brooke Husic and Sid Sivakumar |
| RECORDDEALS | Fri Sep 9, 2022 | Dreams for aspiring bands | Brandon Koppy |
| RESTAURATEURS | Fri Jul 30, 1999 | James Beard Award nominees | John Wolting |
| RISESABOVE | Fri Jan 7, 2011 | Transcends | Joe DiPietro |
| SCRATCHER | Sun May 6, 2007 | Cat, at times | Charles M. Deber |
| SHARKWEEK | Sat Jan 23, 2021 | Franchise with the "Dominating the Deep" DVD set | Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber |
| SOUTANE | Sun Feb 18, 1996 | Close-fitting clerical garment | Norma Steinberg |
| SPACEFORCE | Sat Jun 25, 2022 | Branch of the U.S. military launched in 2019 | Adam Aaronson |
| STJOSEPHS | Thu May 2, 1996 | Philadelphia university | D. J. Kahn |
| TELEPHONES | Sat Jun 30, 2007 | Bank holdings? | Byron Walden |
| THELOCUSTTREEINFLOWER | Sun May 10, 2015 | 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters | Jacob Stulberg |
| TOULA | Sun Nov 4, 2007 | Bride in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" | Bob Klahn |
| TRIUMVIR | Sat Jun 17, 2000 | Ancient magistrate | Rich Norris |
| TWOGIGS | Thu Jul 16, 2015 | Modest flash drive capacity, informally | Paula Gamache |
| UNNECESSARYROUGHNESS | Sun Oct 24, 2004 | Fellow forgets to shave before kissing girlfriend; ref cites him for ... | Patrick Berry |
| WASDEADSETON | Sun Mar 16, 2025 | Felt absolutely determined about | Paul Coulter |