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 50,910 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTTHERAPY | Sat Apr 21, 2007 | Psychiatric discipline pioneered by Margaret Naumburg | Byron Walden |
| BACKSTROKE | Tue Apr 16, 2013 | Butterfly alternative | Peter Broda |
| BRAINPOWER | Sat Jul 26, 2025 | Smarts | Adam Levav |
| CLIMBDOWN | Wed Aug 8, 2012 | Dismount | Peter A. Collins |
| CORNCOBS | Sun Jul 30, 2000 | Some pipes | Randolph Ross |
| CROWNJEWELS | Thu Jan 27, 2000 | Palace display, maybe | David Ainslie Macleod |
| CUTTHATOUT | Mon Jan 12, 2009 | "Stop!" ... or what you do to 18-, 24-, 40- and 54-Across | Lynn Lempel |
| DIAGON | Mon Nov 21, 2016 | ___ Alley, shopping area for Harry Potter | John Lieb |
| FANTODS | Sun Jan 22, 2023 | State of uneasiness, informally | Garrett Chalfin |
| FOGGS | Fri Mar 18, 1994 | Noted world traveler and namesakes | Mark Diehl |
| GOODWILL | Wed Aug 16, 1995 | Angelic George? | Judith Perry |
| GUNBOAT | Sat Dec 17, 1994 | PT 109, e.g. | Chuck Deodene |
| IMPRINTED | Fri Sep 17, 1999 | Like many a cover title | Patrick D. Berry |
| ISABELALLENDE | Fri May 12, 2023 | "The House of the Spirits" novelist | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano |
| LANDSCAPERS | Sun Sep 15, 2002 | Manages to get garnishes? | Fred Piscop |
| LEAFLIKE | Sun Sep 4, 2011 | Foliose | Dana Delany and Matt Ginsberg |
| LICENSEFEES | Sun May 1, 2016 | Revenue source for Fish and Wildlife departments | Joel Fagliano and Byron Walden |
| LUFTBALLONS | Wed Sep 9, 2020 | 99, in pop music | Jakob Weisblat |
| MAXBEERBOHM | Sat Mar 13, 1999 | EDWARDIAN WIT WHO WROTE "THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE" | David J. Kahn |
| MEZUZAHS | Fri Jun 19, 2009 | Jewish parchment scrolls put on doorposts | David Levinson Wilk |
| MINCEPIES | Sun Jul 14, 2002 | British delicacies | Patrick Berry |
| MODERNWARFARE | Sun Jun 30, 2013 | West Point subject | Alex Vratsanos and Jeff Chen |
| PICKUPSTICK | Tue Jun 9, 2020 | Item in a game of jackstraws | Freddie Cheng |
| SAVETHEDATE | Fri Nov 30, 2018 | Advance notice for an event | Robyn Weintraub |
| SHOOTEM | Thu Feb 3, 1994 | _____-up (film genre) | A.J. Santora |
| SLAPHAPPY | Wed Apr 13, 2011 | Punch-drunk | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SMELLIEST | Thu Dec 17, 2020 | Most foul | Kathryn Ladner |
| SONGEUR | Mon Oct 2, 1995 | Dreamer: Fr. | Joy L. Wouk |
| STAGEMOMS | Fri May 27, 2022 | Parents obsessed with play dates? | David Distenfeld |
| SUBSTRATA | Sun Mar 13, 2005 | Foundations | Patrick Merrell |
| SWINGBY | Sun Jan 12, 2020 | Pay a brief visit | Evan Mahnken and David Steinberg |
| TABLEHOCKEY | Sun Jun 13, 2021 | Two-player game invented in Toronto | Stephen McCarthy |
| TAILCOATED | Sat Mar 6, 1999 | In formal wear | Fred Piscop |
| TAKENTOTASK | Fri Jan 7, 2011 | Censured | Joe DiPietro |
| THEENTERTAINER | Thu Jun 28, 2018 | Classic Scott Joplin rag | Jeff Chen |
| THROWASPIRAL | Wed Jun 10, 2020 | Toss the pigskin perfectly | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |
| ULTRAMAN | Sun Oct 14, 2018 | Supervillain in DC Comics | Ross Trudeau |
| VENIR | Fri Jan 22, 2010 | To come, in Cádiz or Caen | Natan Last |
| WAXINGSALON | Sun Aug 12, 2007 | Hair removal site | Cathy Millhauser |
| WINTERTIME | Fri Sep 10, 2021 | What comes after the fall | Adrian Kabigting |