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 50,376 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTINIC | Sun Mar 15, 2015 | Like light that causes chemical change | Dan Feyer |
| AMANDOWN | Tue May 20, 2014 | Short playerwise, as in hockey | Peter A. Collins |
| ASAGIVEN | Tue Feb 13, 2001 | Without questioning or debate | Michael Shteyman |
| ATADISCOUNT | Sun Aug 4, 2013 | On sale | Steven Ginzburg |
| BIRLER | Sat Feb 26, 2011 | Competitive lumberjack | Bob Peoples |
| BLACKISH | Sun Apr 14, 2019 | ABC sitcom about the Johnsons | Will Nediger |
| BOSSMAN | Wed Sep 2, 2015 | Head honcho | Kevin Christian and Bradley Wilber |
| CANADIANPROVINCE | Thu Jan 12, 2012 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for | Gareth Bain |
| CLAPPED | Sun Jan 1, 2006 | Played pat-a-cake | Joe DiPietro |
| CORDIALLY | Thu Jan 20, 1994 | "I'll have a curacao," said Tom____ | Lois Sidway |
| DEMIGODDESS | Fri Feb 19, 2021 | Helen of Troy, e.g. | Amanda Rafkin |
| ELKMEAT | Sat Jan 8, 2022 | Lean protein | Freddie Cheng |
| EPICENES | Sun Jan 28, 2001 | Sexless ones | Jim Page |
| FENCERAIL | Thu Apr 25, 2013 | Product of Abe Lincoln's wood splitting | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| FIRSTYEAR | Wed Jun 26, 2024 | Frosh | Rebecca Goldstein |
| FLEDGED | Sun Oct 13, 2002 | Having feathers | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FRUSTRATION | Wed Jul 15, 2009 | Feeling of nonfulfillment | Joon Pahk |
| HEDGEHOPPER | Mon Feb 7, 2000 | Crop-dusting plane | Gregory E. Paul |
| ICYSEA | Sun Jun 17, 2012 | Arctic waters, on historical maps | Kyle T. Dolan |
| JULIETTEBINOCHE | Fri Nov 6, 2009 | "The English Patient" Oscar winner | Doug Peterson |
| LIFESPAN | Sun Apr 15, 2012 | About a month, for a fruit fly | Kevin G. Der |
| LIGHTERTHANAIR | Mon Jun 21, 2021 | Capable of floating, as a balloon | Jacob Stulberg |
| MICHELOBBEER | Sun Apr 14, 1996 | Quaff introduced in 1896 | Henry Hook |
| NANDA | Sun Aug 21, 1994 | ____ Devi (second-highest peak in India) | Ted Fulton |
| NIEBUHR | Mon Dec 26, 2016 | Theologian Reinhold who wrote the Serenity Prayer | Jules P. Markey |
| OCAPTAIN | Fri Jun 28, 2002 | Whitman poem opener | Charles E. Gersch |
| OZONES | Sun Nov 30, 2014 | Some oxygen molecules | Matt Ginsberg |
| RUNNINGPRESSES | Sat Jun 14, 1997 | Printer's activity | A. J. Santora |
| SALPA | Fri May 19, 2000 | Marine creature with a transparent, saclike body | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SCOTTISHEEL | Sun Sep 6, 2009 | Fish in a firth? | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SCOTTJOPLIN | Thu Mar 14, 2002 | He was in the rag trade | Alan Arbesfeld |
| SHILLS | Sun Dec 26, 1993 | Scam accomplices | Tom Underhill |
| SOLARSAIL | Sun May 1, 2022 | Spacecraft's reflective attachment | Brandon Koppy |
| TENACIOUSD | Tue Aug 21, 2018 | Comedy rock duo featuring actor Jack Black | John Lieb and Andrea Yañes |
| THENFALLCAESAR | Thu Sep 9, 1999 | Julius's last words | Sam Bellotto Jr. |
| TICKINGTIMEBOMB | Sat Mar 22, 2025 | Plot device in some suspense thrillers | Katie Hoody |
| TOPTENLISTS | Sun Jun 28, 2020 | Some clickbait articles | Jon Schneider and Anderson Wang |
| TOTALITY | Wed Jul 2, 1997 | Wholeness | Richard Hughes |
| VALSPEAK | Sun Feb 27, 2022 | Slangy SoCal dialect | Sheldon Polonsky |
| ZABAGLIONE | Sat Aug 10, 2002 | Italian custard served either hot or chilled | Dana Motley |