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 50,738 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMANDOWN | Tue May 20, 2014 | Short playerwise, as in hockey | Peter A. Collins |
| APCREDIT | Fri Dec 8, 2017 | Reward for an accelerated course, in brief | Paolo Pasco |
| BINOCULARVISION | Fri Jun 8, 2012 | Aid in judging distances | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| BUYOFF | Wed Jan 6, 2010 | Bribe | Julian Lim |
| CLOSEDECOSYSTEM | Sat Sep 13, 2025 | Sort of habitat in a bottle garden | Alex Jiang |
| CONOIDAL | Thu Oct 26, 2000 | Shaped like a megaphone | Patrick Berry |
| DOPAMINERUSH | Tue Jul 8, 2025 | What a pleasure-seeker seeks | Jesse Guzman |
| ECLIPSED | Tue Apr 28, 2009 | Overshadowed | Matt Ginsberg |
| ELLIBERTADOR | Mon Jul 5, 2021 | Sobriquet for Simón Bolívar | Peter Gordon |
| EPISCOPATE | Sat Feb 19, 2000 | Religious body | Rich Norris |
| ERADICABLE | Sat Mar 18, 2006 | Not permanent | Patrick Berry |
| EVERLAST | Sat Sep 5, 2009 | Company that provided equipment for the reality show "The Contender" | Mike Nothnagel |
| FATTIRE | Sun Jun 11, 2023 | Beer brand with a bicycle in its logo | Sam Ezersky |
| HEADBANGS | Thu Jul 25, 2024 | Rocks out to heavy metal, say | Damon Gulczynski |
| HERETICS | Sat Apr 17, 2021 | Some Renaissance-era scientists | Leslie Rogers |
| HORSDOEUVRES | Wed Sep 12, 2018 | *Literally, "outside the works" | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| IMACPROS | Sun Sep 17, 2023 | Bygone Apple desktops | Jill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp |
| LANDOFNOD | Fri Sep 21, 2001 | Retiree's destination? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| LEAKTO | Mon Feb 5, 2024 | Surreptitiously give, as classified information | Desirée Penner and Jeff Sinnock |
| MAHARAJAH | Tue Jun 12, 2001 | Big Indian | Alfio Micci |
| METROSEXUALS | Mon Feb 5, 2007 | Modern fashion-conscious guys | Joy C. Frank |
| MOVEDON | Sun Apr 27, 2014 | The van driver ... | John Lampkin |
| ORGO | Thu Mar 18, 2021 | Notoriously difficult chem class | Tom McCoy |
| PARCHED | Tue Apr 30, 2002 | More than thirsty | John F. Hughes |
| PATRICKSTEWART | Thu Feb 21, 2019 | Player of X in "X-Men" | Sam Trabucco |
| PLOWINTO | Sat Oct 5, 2013 | Hit hard, as in an accident | Byron Walden |
| QUITESURE | Thu Jul 14, 2011 | "Oh, that's definite" | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Ian Livengood |
| RAIDTHEFRIDGE | Mon Jul 15, 2013 | Get a midnight snack, say | Jeff Chen and Angela Olson Halsted |
| REGULARCUSTOMER | Fri Apr 2, 2010 | One who keeps giving you the business? | Alan Olschwang |
| RENTFREEZE | Tue Jul 14, 2020 | Super-cold spell on the set of a 1996 Broadway musical? | Stella Zawistowski |
| RUNAGROUND | Sat Aug 22, 2015 | Not pass the bar? | Barry C. Silk |
| STBD | Sun Apr 18, 2004 | Naut. direction | Richard Chisholm |
| STOPCOCK | Sat Feb 3, 2007 | Faucet with a rotating plug | Rich Norris |
| SWEDISHMEATBALLS | Sun Mar 14, 1999 | KÖTTBULLAR | Martin Schneider |
| USEPLAINENGLISH | Tue Apr 12, 2005 | Avoid technobabble | Nancy Salomon |
| WHEEDLE | Fri Mar 3, 2006 | Inveigle | Tyler Hinman |
| WITHNOWARNING | Mon Dec 13, 2004 | Unexpectedly | Sarah Keller |
| WOULDNT | Fri May 19, 2006 | First word sung on the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album | Patrick Berry |
| YOUNO | Sun Sep 3, 1995 | "...I'll tell _____ lies" | Ernie Furtado |
| YOURENEXT | Tue Oct 31, 2023 | 2011 dark-comedy slasher film that takes place during a family reunion | Kathy Lowden and Erik Piepenburg |