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 50,800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHILLESHEEL | Mon Dec 7, 2015 | Key vulnerability | Jason Mueller |
| ALEXES | Thu Oct 19, 2000 | Football's Karras et al. | Patrick Jordan |
| BURGERKING | Mon Apr 26, 2021 | Figurative ruler of a 35-Down | Eric and Lori Bornstein |
| BYALLODDS | Wed Dec 7, 2005 | Undoubtedly | Manny Nosowsky |
| CHIBA | Sat Dec 7, 2019 | Japanese city on Tokyo Bay | Kevin G. Der and Erik Agard |
| COUNTAGAINST | Wed Mar 10, 2010 | Be disadvantageous to | Gary Steinmehl |
| DAYTIMER | Sun Apr 16, 2000 | Big name in personal planners | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DIGITATE | Sat Jun 17, 1995 | Having fingerlike parts | Frank A. Longo |
| DIRTBIKES | Tue Jul 22, 2014 | Off-road two-wheelers | Joel Fagliano |
| ELIN | Sat Oct 15, 2011 | ___ Nordegren, ex-wife of Tiger Woods | Joon Pahk |
| EQUATORIALPLANE | Fri Nov 9, 2012 | Where chromosomes gather between poles during mitosis | Barry C. Silk |
| FILMCANON | Thu Oct 2, 2014 | Most important movies | David Woolf |
| GHIJ | Sun Oct 25, 2009 | Run of letters | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HASASHOTAT | Sat Jun 14, 2008 | Can still get | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HAVEIT | Sun Sep 25, 2022 | "Here, take this" | Meghan Morris |
| HONEYMOONERS | Sun May 25, 2003 | See 71-Across | David J. Kahn |
| IHEARTHAT | Mon Feb 6, 2023 | "Gotcha" | Taylor Johnson |
| JUNOT | Thu Jan 9, 2020 | Spanish boy's name related to the sixth month of the year | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| KEEPITTOGETHER | Sun Jul 31, 2016 | Stay cool ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| LEBANESE | Sat Jun 19, 1999 | Like Casey Kasem, ethnically | Mark Diehl |
| LOWLANDS | Mon Aug 9, 2021 | Opposite of 25-Across? | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| MIDDLEAMERICA | Sun May 14, 2017 | U.S. heartland | Will Nediger |
| MULCT | Fri Jun 5, 1998 | Swindle | Manny Nosowsky |
| MUUMUUS | Sat May 20, 2000 | Patterned dresses | Rich Norris |
| ONELOT | Sun Nov 1, 2009 | Trading unit | Matt Ginsberg and Pete Muller |
| OVERHEATS | Fri Oct 13, 2000 | Lets off steam? | Joe DiPietro |
| PARKINGSPACES | Fri Jun 30, 1995 | Metropolitan rarities | Rich Norris |
| RAPBATTLES | Fri Jan 31, 2025 | Wars of words? | Adrian Johnson |
| REDPOLL | Sun Aug 25, 1996 | Variety of hornless beef cattle | R. Silvestri |
| REDSTARTS | Wed Jun 9, 2010 | Boldly patterned warblers ... and a hint to 17-, 24-, 50- and 59-Across | Gary Whitehead |
| RIVARIDGE | Thu Feb 2, 2006 | 1972 Kentucky Derby winner | Byron Walden |
| SADDLEHORSES | Fri Jan 3, 1997 | Certain mounts | M. Nosowsky |
| SOFTERSIDE | Sat Jan 31, 2004 | What a tough guy may not show much | Byron Walden |
| STANDAT | Sun May 24, 1998 | Maintain, as attention | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| SUBSHOP | Thu Mar 10, 2022 | Grinder vendor | John Westwig |
| SUNBIRDS | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Former sporty Pontiacs | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SWEEPSSTALLS | Sun Dec 7, 2008 | *Does a hostler's work | Jim Page |
| VISABILL | Sun Mar 23, 1997 | Where charges may show up | Bryant White |
| WAREPIC | Fri Aug 20, 2021 | "Saving Private Ryan" or "Apocalypse Now" | Randolph Ross |
| YETSOFAR | Thu Dec 12, 1996 | Partner for "so near" | J. R. Conrad |