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 50,703 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHERN | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | Irish P.M. Bertie | Byron Walden |
| ALLENTOWNPA | Tue May 27, 1997 | Sound system in the Keystone State? | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| ALLGOOD | Tue May 27, 2025 | Hunky-dory | Ginny Too |
| ANTARCTICCIRCLE | Wed May 18, 2016 | Where the midnight sun can be observed | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| BANDSTANDS | Tue Oct 14, 2014 | Outdoor concert sites | Adam G. Perl |
| BMXERS | Sun Sep 22, 2024 | Olympians on stunt bikes, informally | Jeremy Newton and Tracy Gray |
| BULOW | Sun Nov 28, 1993 | Claus von _____ ('82 defendant) | Joanne W. Edwards |
| DINKIER | Sat Oct 4, 2014 | Less significant | Julian Lim |
| DRAGINTOCOURT | Sat Apr 16, 2022 | Sue | Hemant Mehta |
| DYINGBATTERY | Wed Nov 10, 2021 | 56-Across, to a smartphone user | Max Chen Lauring and Benjamin Chen Lauring |
| EXPANDEDROLE | Mon Mar 21, 2022 | Greater responsibility, often as part of a promotion | John Ewbank and Jeff Chen |
| FERS | Sun May 27, 2012 | Irons, in Paris | Byron Walden |
| FLICKER | Thu Oct 28, 2021 | Black-and-white movie effect | Alan Massengill |
| FRIEDMAN | Thu Oct 17, 2019 | Thomas with the 2005 best seller "The World Is Flat" | Randolph Ross |
| GLOAMING | Sun Apr 5, 2015 | Twilight, poetically | Tom McCoy |
| GODLIKE | Fri Jan 16, 2004 | Superhuman | Manny Nosowsky |
| GUNPIT | Wed Oct 10, 2012 | Defensive excavation | Pete Muller |
| HHMUNRO | Wed Nov 10, 2010 | Author better known as Saki | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| INTIMATEDETAILS | Sat Nov 2, 2024 | Juicy stuff | Blake Slonecker |
| LACKSHEART | Mon Aug 30, 2021 | Doesn't have fortitude | Brooke Husic |
| MEDIADARLING | Tue Oct 14, 2025 | "What are oils and watercolors examples of, dear?" "___" | Stella Zawistowski |
| MICRODOSE | Thu Dec 5, 2024 | Small amount of LSD, e.g. | Garrett Chalfin |
| NITPICKERS | Wed Jul 7, 1999 | Basketball contest selectors? | Richard Silvestri |
| OOZESIN | Sun May 14, 2023 | Enters like slime | Sid Sivakumar |
| OVERWITHHELD | Sat Feb 10, 2001 | Due a refund, in a way | Rich Norris |
| PEDIATRIC | Sat Aug 31, 2024 | Childish? | Sam Ezersky |
| POCKETPROTECTOR | Mon Jun 25, 2001 | Nerd identifier #3 | Stanley Newman |
| PUNCHEDTAPE | Fri Jan 20, 2006 | Paper strip for old computer data | Harvey Estes |
| RIFEWITH | Tue Dec 15, 2020 | Permeated by | Adam Vincent |
| SCHLUBS | Sun Oct 26, 2014 | Boors | Caleb Emmons |
| SHEDFUL | Sun Jan 21, 2018 | Quantity of garden tools | Victor Barocas and Andy Kravis |
| SOCKEDINTHENOSE | Thu Jul 1, 2004 | Worse than slapped | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SPEECHES | Sun Jun 22, 2025 | Filibuster components | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin and Hannah Margolin |
| STOCKWELL | Sun Feb 11, 2001 | "Quantum Leap" co-star | Bob Peoples and Nancy Salomon |
| THEPURPLEONION | Mon Aug 29, 2011 | Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed | Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake |
| TOMMYLEEJONES | Mon Jan 1, 1996 | "JFK" co-star | A. Klaus |
| TWADDLED | Sat Jan 26, 2002 | Went on about trivial things | Mark Diehl |
| WALNUTCAKE | Tue Feb 7, 2006 | Baked dessert with shelled ingredients | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| WEDGEDIN | Sat Dec 7, 2019 | Placed tightly | Kevin G. Der and Erik Agard |
| WEIRDEDOUT | Sat Feb 8, 2020 | Getting a strange vibe | Hemant Mehta |