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 50,772 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANGELDUST | Fri May 1, 2015 | Phencyclidine, colloquially | David Steinberg |
| BLUEHOLES | Sun Feb 16, 2025 | Deep, dark ocean caverns | John Kugelman |
| COSAS | Sun Oct 8, 1995 | Spanish things | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| CROSSSWORDS | Tue May 31, 2005 | Duel (with) | Merl Reagle |
| CYDS | Mon Mar 27, 1995 | Dancer Charisse et al. | Gregory E. Paul |
| DURBIN | Mon Mar 26, 2012 | Singer/actress Deanna of the 1930s-'40s | Ray Fontenot |
| ELVISPRESLEY | Fri Jun 1, 2007 | Subject of some sightings | David Quarfoot and Katy Swalwell |
| ETYPES | Mon Jun 29, 2009 | Classic Jaguars | Paula Gamache |
| FALLHARVEST | Tue Dec 1, 2009 | Occasion for pumpkin picking | Jonah Kagan and Victor Fleming |
| GOLFENTHUSIASTS | Tue Apr 6, 1999 | Quip about links lovers, part 1 | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| GOODOLEBOYS | Sun Jul 23, 2006 | Enthusiastic cheering section at a bullfight? | Fred Piscop |
| GRACING | Sat Jan 9, 1999 | Adorning | Harvey Estes |
| HAMLETSOLILOQUY | Thu Jul 24, 1997 | Shakespeare classic | Randall J. Hartman |
| HOWAR | Thu May 29, 1997 | Author Barbara of "Laughing All the Way" | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| HUMONGOUS | Fri Oct 29, 2021 | Ginormous | Aimee Lucido |
| HUNKY | Sun Nov 14, 2010 | Like a Chippendales dancer | Patrick Berry |
| JAMESIV | Sun Jul 30, 2017 | Last Scottish king to die in battle | Isaac Mizrahi and David J. Kahn |
| JILTEE | Fri Nov 1, 2013 | Dickens's Miss Havisham, famously | Brad Wilber |
| JOLLYROGERS | Mon Jun 23, 1997 | Pirate flags | Shannon Burns |
| LIVINGWILL | Tue Oct 1, 2013 | Medical directive | Joel Fagliano |
| MAINROAD | Fri Jan 3, 2014 | Artery | Barry C. Silk and Brad Wilber |
| MANIPULATE | Sun Jul 30, 1995 | UUUU | Charles M. Deber |
| NASCARRACE | Fri Jul 18, 2025 | The Brickyard 400 or Southern 500, e.g. | Kelly Morenus |
| NEOJAZZ | Sat Jan 3, 2009 | Hard bop, e.g. | Peter Wentz |
| OFFOF | Tue Oct 15, 2024 | No longer taking, as a medication | Lindsay Rosenblum |
| ONTOPOFSPAGHETTI | Sun Feb 4, 2001 | SPAETZLE | Frank A. Longo |
| PEYO | Sat Jan 17, 2009 | One-named Belgian cartoonist who created the Smurfs | Brad Wilber |
| REACHEDIN | Wed Dec 31, 2025 | Began to withdraw mail from a mailbox, say | Jeffrey Martinovic |
| REAFFOREST | Fri Jan 4, 2008 | Plant on after a wildfire, say | Raymond C. Young |
| REDHOTMAMA | Mon Jul 14, 1997 | Sophie Tucker was the "last" | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| RETAILAT | Fri Mar 4, 2011 | Go for | Joe Krozel |
| SHABBATSHALOM | Sat Jan 21, 2023 | End-of-week greeting | David Distenfeld |
| SHELLSOUTCASH | Mon Aug 17, 2020 | Spends moolah | Alan Massengill and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| SHOOPSHOOPSONG | Wed Oct 13, 1999 | 1964 Betty Everett hit, with "The" | David Levinson Wilk |
| SHORTHAUL | Sun Jun 11, 2023 | Easy trucking distance | Sam Ezersky |
| SIBLINGRIVALRY | Sat Jun 21, 2025 | Fuel for a family feud | Christina Iverson and Doug Peterson |
| TVAUDIENCE | Fri May 17, 2002 | Major advertising target | Joe DiPietro |
| WATERGAS | Sun May 25, 2025 | Mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen | Dylan Schiff |
| WELLEXCUUUUSEME | Wed Dec 20, 2006 | Words of apology — NOT! | Nancy Salomon |
| WHATASTEAL | Sun Jan 26, 2020 | *"Man, that was cheap!" | Erik Agard |