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 50,959 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTTREE | Sat Jun 25, 2005 | Venomous insects live in its hollow stems | John Underwood |
| AUDIOINPUT | Mon Jan 30, 2023 | Microphone jack, for one | David Steinberg |
| AUTOSHOWS | Sat Aug 13, 2005 | Where new lines are on display | Bob Peoples |
| BONIEST | Sat Dec 5, 1998 | Superlatively spare | Daniel R. Stark |
| BORISES | Sat Mar 2, 1996 | Three kings of Bulgaria | N. Joline |
| BRITISHENGLISH | Sun Dec 11, 2016 | Dialect that was called 22-Across before the age of colonialism | Tom McCoy |
| CITRONS | Thu Jun 4, 2009 | Lemonlike fruit | Peter A. Collins and Joe Krozel |
| COMPASSES | Sun Mar 29, 2009 | Circle makers | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| COMPLETECOLUMNS | Mon Jan 26, 2004 | Connectors? | Patrick Merrell |
| DALLASGREEN | Wed Feb 1, 1995 | Former New York Mets manager | Chet Currier |
| DOTSTHEI | Sun Aug 8, 2004 | Attends to a detail | Bill Zais |
| DRAWA | Sun Sep 8, 1996 | ___ blank | R. H. Wolfe |
| ELECTRICEEL | Mon May 7, 2007 | It may come as a shock to a diver | Janet Bender |
| ENTHRAL | Tue Dec 14, 2021 | Beguile, to Brits | Tao Platt |
| EXCOPS | Thu May 5, 2022 | Many security guards | Adam Wagner |
| FLATFISH | Sat Dec 15, 2001 | Sole, e.g. | Frank A. Longo |
| GENEROSITY | Mon May 30, 2022 | Philanthropic quality | Alexander Liebeskind |
| HOMERUNTROT | Fri Jun 19, 2026 | Field trip? | Jack Hatchett |
| HORSEPOWER | Sun Jan 30, 2011 | Bit of a muscle car's muscle | Kevin G. Der and Jessica A. Hui |
| HOUSEPAINTER | Sun Oct 9, 2022 | *One putting a coat on outside [three rungs] | Jessie Trudeau and Ross Trudeau |
| IWONTASK | Fri Aug 12, 2022 | "Clearly, you'd like me to leave that topic alone" | Trent H. Evans |
| MILHOUSE | Fri Jul 10, 2020 | "The Simpsons" character named for a U.S. president | John Lieb |
| NOTGO | Sat Aug 20, 2011 | "Let's ___ there" | Byron Walden |
| ONACCOUNT | Sun Nov 1, 2020 | Because (of) | Julian Lim |
| PEARTART | Mon Oct 18, 2021 | Pastry made with an orchard fruit | Freddie Cheng |
| PORTCULLIS | Thu Jul 15, 1999 | Defensive grating in medieval castles | Zack Butler |
| REDDITOR | Fri Sep 28, 2018 | User of a popular social news site | Kameron Austin Collins |
| RESTASSURED | Fri Aug 29, 2014 | "Don't worry ..." | Daniel Raymon |
| SCOOTERED | Thu Jan 31, 2013 | Traveled by Vespa | Mike Buckley |
| SKIPARKA | Sat Aug 16, 2008 | Protection for someone on the run? | Byron Walden |
| SPELLINGBEE | Sat Jul 4, 2015 | Character-building event? | Sam Ezersky |
| STIVES | Sun Jul 16, 2017 | Nursery rhyme destination | Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller |
| TAKESSTOCK | Tue May 8, 2012 | Assesses one's options carefully | Lynn Lempel |
| TAPEDEYEGLASSES | Mon Jun 25, 2001 | Nerd identifier #1 | Stanley Newman |
| THESELF | Sat Nov 26, 2022 | Psychoanalytic subject | Kanyin Ajayi |
| TOUCHER | Sun Jan 9, 1994 | Faith healer, perhaps | Mel Rosen |
| TRANSCENDENTALISM | Sun Jun 8, 2003 | Philosophy associated with 59-Across | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| UNINHIBITED | Sun Feb 13, 2022 | *Freely expressive | David Steinberg |
| UNSEEMLY | Tue Mar 16, 2004 | Socially improper | Ron Sweet |
| VALKYRIES | Sat Nov 27, 2021 | Those tending to the fallen warriors called einherjar, in myth | Trenton Charlson |