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 50,585 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADIOSAMIGOS | Thu Jun 21, 2018 | "Peace, y'all!" | Milo Beckman and David Steinberg |
| ARENS | Fri Jan 10, 2003 | Former Israeli minister Moshe | Manny Nosowsky |
| ARIZONIAN | Thu Oct 30, 2014 | John McCain, for one | David Woolf |
| BACKTHEFIELD | Tue Jul 19, 2022 | Bet on every competitor but one | Andy Kravis |
| CAMPIEST | Sat Jan 21, 1995 | Most amusingly exaggerated | Charles E. Gersch |
| CARDOORS | Tue Aug 30, 2011 | Nowadays they usually have power locks and windows | Bernice Gordon |
| CATENA | Sat Oct 21, 2000 | Connected series | Bob Klahn |
| CLOUDFORMATION | Tue Jan 8, 2008 | What you really saw? | Malia Jackson and Noah Snyder |
| COSTREL | Wed Apr 24, 1996 | Eared flask | G. Dean |
| DRIFTAPART | Sun Aug 2, 2015 | Lose that loving feeling | Matt Ginsberg |
| ENSLAVERS | Sat Feb 24, 2007 | Bond dealers? | Byron Walden |
| FALLOFF | Mon Jan 9, 2017 | Decrease | Neville Fogarty |
| FARMORE | Sun Jul 5, 2020 | A much greater quantity | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| GODDARD | Sun Nov 15, 1998 | Father of modern rocketry | Robert H. Wolfe |
| GOOSEDOWN | Mon Jun 3, 2019 | *Soft bedding material | Lynn Lempel |
| HELLTOPAY | Fri Oct 29, 2021 | What there will be if you cross the wrong person | Aimee Lucido |
| HENBIT | Sat Apr 17, 1999 | Weed of the mint family | Jim Page |
| HERECOMESTHEGROOM | Sun May 18, 1997 | 1951 film | Frances Hansen |
| ILLTURNTHISCARAROUND | Sun Sep 18, 2022 | Mechanic's go-to parenting phrase? | Katie Hale |
| LATEFORDINNER | Sun Sep 26, 1999 | "Tardy at Eight" by George S. Kaufman | Randolph Ross |
| MIDINETTE | Sun May 11, 2025 | Shopgirl in a Paris boutique | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| NIPANDTUCK | Sun Dec 14, 1997 | Job for a plastic surgeon? | Nancy Salomon |
| NOSHOT | Tue Sep 13, 2022 | A 0% chance, colloquially | Adam Wagner |
| ONEBADAPPLE | Wed Mar 10, 2021 | Start of a saying about negative influence | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| ONEMETER | Wed Jun 10, 2020 | Approximately 39 inches | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |
| ONTHEGRAVYTRAIN | Thu May 18, 1995 | Living off another's largess | Chuck Deodene |
| PADDLEBOATRACES | Sat Sep 24, 2005 | Summer camp fun on a lake | Byron Walden |
| PASDEDEUX | Mon Dec 3, 2018 | Couple's ballet dance | Lynn Lempel |
| PUTONHOLD | Thu Apr 9, 2020 | -able | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| ROMANGODS | Thu Aug 7, 2025 | Some fishing gear | Ben Zimmer |
| ROWING | Tue Jan 23, 2018 | Olympic sport with strokes | Jim Hilger |
| SAILEDIN | Thu Apr 22, 1999 | Came to port | David J. Kahn |
| SEVIER | Sat Apr 18, 1998 | Tennessee's first governor, John ___ | Frank Longo |
| SHARPEDGE | Mon Dec 22, 2014 | What a whetstone gives a knife | Lynn Lempel |
| TAXISTAND | Wed Jun 22, 2011 | Grand Central Terminal sight | Tim Croce |
| TRICERATOPS | Mon Apr 4, 2022 | Dinosaur whose name means "three-horned face" | Derek J. Angell |
| TROLLEYCAR | Thu Aug 25, 2011 | Conductor's place | Patrick Blindauer & Francis Heaney |
| VERYRELIGIOUS | Thu Apr 1, 2021 | 6-Across, with "out" | Sam Ezersky |
| WAVEFRONT | Sat Jun 7, 2008 | Any one of the concentric circles in a ripple, in physics | Karen M. Tracey |
| WINDLASS | Fri Jan 10, 1997 | Lifting device | A. J. Santora |