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 51,129 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALITTLEHELPHERE | Fri Jul 5, 2024 | Request for assistance | Trent H. Evans |
| ASODD | Sun Oct 13, 2002 | "Doesn't this strike you ___?" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CAMPAIGNPROMISES | Sun Jul 16, 2023 | Forerunners of flip-flops? | Michael Schlossberg |
| COULDNTRESIST | Sat Oct 2, 2021 | Ate the last cookie, say | Wendy L. Brandes |
| CRYPTICMESSAGE | Sun Oct 25, 1998 | Halloween note? | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| DECATHLETE | Sat Jun 14, 2025 | One with 10 reasons not to skip a workout | Barbara Lin |
| DEUCECOUPE | Thu May 7, 2015 | 1932 Ford featured in "American Graffiti" | Tracy Gray |
| DRIVEINARUN | Sun Nov 5, 2017 | Bring someone home ... or, diverged: Common high school offering | Natan Last |
| FATASACOW | Wed May 28, 2014 | Scale-busting | Tim Croce |
| FEINTED | Fri Dec 7, 2012 | Faked | Peter Wentz |
| FORTUNA | Fri Mar 2, 2018 | Typeface that shares its name with the Roman goddess of luck | Rachel Maddow and Joe DiPietro |
| FREETRIAL | Thu Mar 23, 2017 | Incentive for buying a new product, maybe | Sandy Ganzell |
| FROZENFOOD | Fri Aug 15, 1997 | Birds Eye offering | Joe DiPietro |
| FUHGEDABOUDIT | Tue Aug 7, 2007 | "Not on your life!" | Daniel Kantor |
| GROSSPROFIT | Sat Nov 1, 2014 | 33 - 21 | Trip Payne |
| HERNO | Wed Dec 7, 1994 | "Tell _____" (1965 Zombies hit) | Chet Currier |
| HOLDONAMINUTE | Wed Jul 24, 2024 | "Wait!" ... or hopeful words while playing a 35-Across? | Shaun Phillips |
| IMPROVED | Sat Jul 12, 1997 | New partner | Richard Silvestri |
| JACKANAPES | Sat Oct 25, 2008 | Whippersnapper | Karen M. Tracey |
| LORIENT | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | China and environs, to the French | Frank Longo |
| MISTRIALS | Tue Jan 25, 1994 | Results of some errors | Joel Davajan |
| MORTGAGEREFIS | Thu Mar 21, 2013 | Some homeowner transactions when interest rates fall, informally | Jeff Chen |
| OBOESOLO | Sun Dec 10, 2023 | Musical feature in "Swan Lake" and "Peter and the Wolf" | Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen |
| PIANET | Tue Aug 30, 2016 | Electric keyboard heard on "I Am the Walrus" | Roland Huget |
| PRIMETIMEEMMY | Thu Sep 19, 2019 | What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once | David Kwong |
| PUNCHCARDBALLOT | Tue Nov 2, 2004 | Obsolescent election item | Patrick Merrell |
| REGRESSIVE | Sat Oct 29, 1994 | Backsliding | Frank A. Longo |
| REVERSEPHONELOOKUP | Sun Sep 22, 2019 | Method for identifying mystery callers | Tracy Gray |
| RIDIN | Sat Apr 11, 2020 | 2006 #1 Chamillionaire hit that begins "They see me rollin'" | Erik Agard and Wyna Liu |
| ROXIO | Sat Mar 22, 2008 | CD-burning software company that bought Napster | Byron Walden |
| RUDEWORD | Fri May 14, 2004 | Bit of indelicacy | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SOMUCH | Sun Jun 1, 2014 | Only what a person can take? | Tom McCoy |
| SPOILSPORT | Wed Jan 8, 2025 | Party pooper | Laura Dershewitz |
| THELIKE | Mon Sep 2, 2024 | Others similar | Sala Wanetick and Emily Biegas |
| TICKED | Thu Sep 17, 1998 | Teed off | Robert H. Wolfe |
| TRIPLICATE | Fri Jan 30, 2009 | Some forms are filled out in it | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| TULSAOK | Tue Jul 1, 2008 | Part of the mailing address to Oral Roberts University | Ken Bessette |
| WHATINTHEWORLD | Sun Oct 2, 2016 | Shocked cry | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| YALLCOMEBACKNOW | Mon Feb 4, 2008 | "See you again!" | Dave and Tracy Mackey |
| ZOOMHOST | Sat Nov 18, 2023 | Modern meeting organizer | Hoang-Kim Vu |