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 50,911 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZILLION | Thu Jan 7, 2021 | More than can be imagined | Matthew Stock and Sid Sivakumar |
| BACKROOM | Mon Jun 24, 2024 | *Figurative setting for a shady deal | Anthony V. Grubb |
| BENZOIC | Fri Sep 22, 2006 | ___ acid (preservative) | Sherry O. Blackard |
| BUTTNAKED | Sat Aug 2, 2014 | Completely bare | Kristian House |
| CUIRE | Sun Nov 28, 1993 | To cook for Pierre | Joanne W. Edwards |
| DISLODGES | Thu Dec 23, 1993 | Ousts | Richard Silvestri |
| FIXEDASSETS | Sat Mar 10, 2018 | Office building, equipment, etc. | Ryan McCarty |
| FLOWERCHILD | Mon May 24, 1999 | Hippie | Gregory E. Paul |
| FOCUSES | Mon Jul 31, 1995 | Zeroes in (on) | Elizabeth Gorski |
| FROMHANDTOMOUTH | Wed May 17, 1995 | With nothing in reserve | Ed Early |
| GENTLEWOMEN | Sun Jan 22, 1995 | Leis? | Frances Hansen |
| GIVENTHEAXE | Tue Aug 13, 1996 | Fired, as a firefighter? | R. Hughes |
| GOOUTONALIMB | Thu Jun 25, 2020 | Act riskily ... or what three answers in this puzzle do | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| GREENZONE | Fri Jun 26, 2009 | Walled-off enclave in Iraq | Lynn Lempel |
| HADALOOK | Fri May 5, 2023 | Peeked | Jacob McDermott |
| JOHNSTEINBECK | Fri Jun 19, 2015 | He wrote "In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable" | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| KLABERJASS | Sat Nov 26, 2011 | Trick-taking game | Brad Wilber |
| MISSTHEMARK | Wed Mar 4, 2026 | Twain, ___, Hamill, Wahlberg | Wayne Bergman |
| NATEDOGG | Sat Nov 16, 2013 | "G-Funk Classics" rapper | David Steinberg |
| NOTESAPP | Sat Jun 29, 2024 | Modern medium for jotting things down | Adrian Johnson and Rafael Musa |
| OTCSTOCK | Fri Jun 15, 2018 | Investor's purchase outside an exchange, informally | Sam Ezersky |
| OVERCROWD | Sun Jul 7, 1996 | Jam into | R. H. Wolfe |
| PASSEDTIME | Sat Mar 8, 2025 | Did a whole lot of nothing | Joe Deeney |
| PASTERN | Thu Aug 3, 2000 | Part just above a horse's hoof | Bob Sefick |
| POINTERSISTERS | Wed Dec 20, 2023 | Grammy winners for "Jump (for My Love)" (1984) | Brad Wiegmann |
| POSTTRUTH | Sat Apr 28, 2018 | Like a world in which objective facts are less important than appeals to emotion and personal belief | Andrew Kingsley and John Lieb |
| QUANTITY | Mon Mar 8, 2021 | X-axis | Eric Bornstein |
| REFINANCING | Sun Dec 4, 1994 | Mortgage holder's action | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SALEMOR | Tue Oct 24, 2023 | State capital north of Sacramento, CA | Daniel Grinberg |
| SOVETSK | Fri Nov 17, 1995 | Russian city on the Neman | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| SPOTADS | Fri Sep 27, 2024 | Common expenses for political campaigns | Jake Bunch |
| SUSPENDERS | Tue Oct 21, 2003 | Garters, to Brits | John Underwood |
| TAXPREPARER | Sun Oct 18, 2009 | One who gets a lot of return business? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| THECLASH | Sat Apr 18, 2015 | Their 1982 album "Combat Rock" went double-platinum | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| THEYIPS | Fri May 3, 2024 | Athlete's affliction, informally | Eli Cotham |
| TOGGLED | Sat Jul 12, 2014 | Turned off and on | Tim Croce and Alex Vratsanos |
| TOOKTHEL | Sat Mar 21, 2026 | Accepted defeat, in modern parlance | Boaz Moser |
| TWADDLING | Thu Jan 28, 2010 | Talking silly | Raymond C. Young |
| WATERINGHOLE | Thu May 25, 1995 | Haunt | Harvey Estes |
| WHITERAT | Thu Jul 13, 2000 | Lab subject | Rich Norris |