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 51,181 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALCOHOLBAN | Sat Jun 30, 2007 | It can keep ballfields dry | Byron Walden |
| BROADSWORD | Sun Aug 16, 1998 | Excalibur, e.g. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| CLASSWAR | Sun Jul 16, 2023 | Conflict associated with Marxism | Michael Schlossberg |
| DEFINED | Sat Jan 7, 2017 | In the dictionary, say | Roland Huget |
| DELEGATORS | Sat Apr 27, 2013 | They don't do it all themselves | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| DIECASTS | Sun Jul 14, 2024 | Forms from a mold | Jeff Chen |
| DISNEYSFOLLY | Tue Jul 10, 2001 | "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" | Patrick Merrell |
| DOGSEARS | Tue Jun 6, 2000 | Docked animal parts, maybe | Alan Arbesfeld |
| DRFUMANCHU | Mon Jan 27, 2020 | *Sinister genius in a series of Sax Rohmer novels | Timothy Polin |
| EKISTIC | Wed Feb 4, 1998 | Pertaining to city planning | Fred Piscop |
| EMIGRATED | Thu Nov 6, 2014 | Left for good | Matt Ginsberg |
| FANGBITE | Sun Apr 8, 2007 | Impression of Count Dracula? | Byron Walden |
| FELLSHARPLY | Sun Apr 9, 2006 | Guillotines | Paula Gamache |
| FLOODS | Wed Jan 12, 2000 | Annual Nile events | Greg Staples |
| GAUD | Sun Mar 21, 2004 | Showy trinket | Roy Leban |
| GLENNCLOSE | Tue Aug 28, 2018 | Portrayer of Cruella de Vil in 1996's "101 Dalmatians" | Brian Thomas |
| HEARTOF | Sun May 26, 1996 | Words with "stone" or "the matter" | R. Ross |
| INTRADAY | Sun Nov 1, 2009 | Like some stock market highs and lows | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| IRONMINES | Sat Mar 29, 2025 | Underground venues for some heavy-metal bands? | Christina Iverson and Jacob McDermott |
| KNEWOF | Thu May 10, 2007 | Was familiar with | Peter A. Collins |
| LASERMAZE | Sat Sep 27, 2025 | Part of a high-tech security system | Adrian Johnson and Christina Iverson |
| LONGBOWS | Fri Sep 12, 2025 | Medieval weapons traditionally made with yew | Joe Marquez |
| LYINGAWAKE | Mon Apr 26, 2010 | Suffering from insomnia | Lynn Lempel |
| MARZIPANS | Sat Oct 14, 2023 | Almond confections | Byron Walden |
| MINITACO | Sun Sep 10, 2023 | Bite-size Tex-Mex snack | Adam Wagner |
| QUINTILIAN | Sun Jun 4, 1995 | Roman rhetorician who wrote "Institutio Oratoria" | Bryant White |
| RANGEPOLE | Thu Dec 11, 2003 | Surveyor's rod | Ed Early |
| RICTAL | Wed Dec 27, 1995 | Gaping, as the mouth | David J. Kahn |
| SEEALSO | Wed Jul 24, 2019 | Words of referral | Jake Halperin |
| SHAGGYDOG | Sat Jul 31, 2004 | Kind of story | Byron Walden |
| STEGOSAURS | Sat Dec 28, 1996 | Museum of natural history exhibits | N. Joline |
| TAILGATEPARTY | Thu Feb 20, 2020 | Parking lot event | Joe Deeney |
| TBT | Sun Apr 10, 2022 | Instagram hashtag accompanying a nostalgic photo | David W. Tuffs |
| TEMPTATION | Sat Mar 27, 2010 | "I can resist everything except ___": Oscar Wilde | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| TOKUGAWA | Fri Apr 30, 2004 | Founder of the last Japanese shogunate | Kevin Hagen |
| TOURDEFRANCE | Wed Jul 9, 2003 | Annual July sports event with the world's largest live audience | Patrick Merrell |
| VERYMILD | Sat Feb 7, 2015 | Like American cheese | Byron Walden |
| WESTJET | Wed Aug 26, 2015 | Canadian airline with a directional name | Ian Livengood |
| WINEBARREL | Fri Aug 18, 2023 | The cask of amontillado, e.g. | Kameron Austin Collins |
| ZERODOWN | Fri Dec 27, 2019 | Favorable loan term | Sam Trabucco |