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 50,654 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCEPAY | Thu May 1, 2003 | Early check, perhaps | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| AEROMETERS | Fri Apr 16, 2010 | Measurers of gas properties | Eric Berlin |
| ANNALIST | Thu Dec 1, 2011 | Chronicler of events | Elizabeth A. Long |
| ANONYMITY | Mon Dec 14, 1998 | Fame's opposite | Randy Sowell |
| BARTRICK | Wed Jun 19, 2019 | *Opening a beer bottle with a ring, e.g. (4 & 4) | Sam Trabucco |
| BLOWNDOWN | Thu Jul 30, 2020 | & 49. Toppled by the wind | Joel Fagliano |
| BUSFARES | Sun Jul 17, 2005 | Pay for some rides | David J. Kahn |
| CARRIED | Wed May 18, 2016 | Won, as a voting demographic | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| COHOE | Wed May 7, 2014 | Small salmon: Var. | Kurt Mueller |
| DECKCHAIRS | Thu Dec 2, 2004 | Places to sit on a ship | Patrick Berry |
| DONTGOAWAYFOLKS | Fri Dec 24, 1993 | Stay tuned, Part 1 | Merl H. Reagle |
| DRABEK | Thu Dec 5, 2002 | Cy Young Award winner Doug | Joe DiPietro |
| EXERCISEREGIMEN | Tue Aug 19, 2003 | Way to fitness | Karen M. Tracey |
| FLESHIER | Sun May 1, 1994 | More plump | Peter Gordon |
| GETONTHESTICK | Fri Feb 8, 2008 | "Start doing your job!" | Mike Nothnagel |
| GRADELEVEL | Tue Feb 3, 2026 | Stage of education | Nate Cardin |
| GUITEAU | Sun Dec 23, 2007 | Garfield's assassin | Adam G. Perl |
| HAMILTONBERMUDA | Tue May 2, 2017 | Capital city with only about 1,000 residents [2016] | David J. Kahn |
| HOWISHE | Sun Oct 19, 2008 | Concerned wife's question in the E.R., maybe | Joe DiPietro |
| INTHELEAST | Thu Oct 15, 2015 | One bit | Kevin G. Der |
| KILOMETER | Sat Nov 26, 2011 | One of about five in a league | Brad Wilber |
| KINGSRANSOM | Sat Aug 31, 2013 | Fortune | Josh Knapp |
| LOCALIZE | Mon Jun 6, 1994 | Bring an issue home | Robert Zimmerman |
| MAXFIELDPARRISH | Mon Jul 27, 2009 | Highly collectible illustrator | Allan E. Parrish |
| MENTALNOTES | Wed Aug 4, 2010 | Unwritten reminders | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| MONTEGO | Sat Aug 4, 2007 | Former Mercury model | Byron Walden |
| NEWYORKMARATHON | Thu Nov 2, 2017 | Event held on the first Sunday in November, and whose path is recreated in this puzzle | Peter Sagal and Mike Selinker |
| OFFYOUGO | Sat Feb 20, 2016 | "Run along now!" | James Mulhern |
| OTISREDDING | Mon Mar 27, 2000 | Soul singer from California? | Dave and Diane Epperson |
| RADIOTUBE | Fri Jul 6, 2007 | Place for a vacuum | Pete Mitchell |
| REVOLUTION | Mon Jun 18, 2012 | 1968 song with the lyric "We all want to change the world" | Peter A. Collins |
| SEEGAR | Sat Mar 6, 1999 | Slangy smoke | Fred Piscop |
| SIXPACKABS | Tue Aug 4, 2015 | Goal of one doing crunches | Joel Fagliano |
| SPARESOMECHANGE | Mon Nov 14, 2011 | Help out a panhandler | Mark Feldman |
| STUTTERS | Sun Feb 29, 2004 | Has trouble with words | Patrick Merrell |
| THEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA | Mon Oct 6, 2008 | 8-Across issuer | Patrick Blindauer |
| VACUUMOVEN | Wed May 12, 2021 | Specialized lab equipment for drying | Tracy Gray |
| VEGGESOUT | Sun Apr 17, 2022 | Chills | Emet Ozar |
| YOUDOTHEMATH | Thu Feb 10, 2022 | "It's not hard to guess how this will end" | August Miller |
| YOUGAME | Sun Feb 25, 2024 | "We doin' this?" | Scott Hogan and Katie Hale |