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 50,611 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APERIODIC | Sun Jun 23, 2002 | Irregular | Eric Berlin |
| BEALLS | Wed Jul 17, 1996 | Most important figures | M. Nosowsky |
| BRAINERS | Sat Mar 20, 2004 | No-___ (snaps) | Byron Walden |
| COLLAGEN | Sun Apr 11, 2004 | It might give you a fat lip | Patrick Merrell |
| ETRURIANS | Sat Jun 26, 2004 | Tuscan ancients | Byron Walden |
| FEELTHEBURN | Sat Dec 20, 2025 | Exercise almost to a point of pain | Robert S. Gard |
| FINIAN | Fri May 31, 1996 | 1968 Fred Astaire film title role | J. S. Marrone |
| FIREANDRAIN | Wed Oct 6, 2010 | 1970 James Taylor hit | Ian Livengood |
| GALLANTS | Sun Jul 2, 2017 | Ladies' men, in older usage | Patrick Blindauer |
| GETWET | Wed Aug 14, 2024 | Lose in a logrolling match, say | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| HOITY | Mon Sep 25, 2017 | With 11-Down, snobbish | Bruce Haight |
| INTHEBEDROOM | Tue Feb 26, 2002 | 2001 50-Across nominee | Peter Gordon |
| JUSTLOOKATYOURFACE | Sun Sep 14, 2003 | ... to the mountains | Cathy Millhauser |
| LADDERRUNGS | Sat Sep 7, 2024 | Levels of corporate hierarchy, so to speak | David P. Williams |
| MAKEAFIST | Thu Aug 21, 2014 | Prepare to give blood, perhaps | Jules P. Markey |
| MRATING | Sat Jan 5, 2019 | Classification for violent video games | Andrew Zhou |
| MUPPETSHOW | Sat Jun 4, 2022 | Popular half-hour sketch comedy of the 1970s-'80s, with "The" | Scott Earl |
| MUSHINESS | Sat Jun 5, 2004 | Schmaltz | Byron Walden |
| NONOTES | Fri Oct 18, 2024 | "That was perfect — I don't have any feedback" | Jesse Cohn |
| NYMPHETS | Mon Feb 28, 2011 | Nubile maidens | Mike Buckley |
| ONLITTLECATFEET | Sat Aug 3, 2024 | Virtually silently, in a classic poem | Rich Norris |
| PEARLWHITE | Mon Aug 8, 1994 | "Perils of Pauline" star | Sidney L. Robbins |
| PENTUPANGER | Mon Dec 30, 2013 | What may lead to an emotional explosion | David Steinberg |
| POINDEXTER | Sat Sep 1, 2007 | Stereotypical nerd | Karen M. Tracey |
| QUIVERFUL | Sat Sep 27, 2008 | Supply of arrows | Karen M. Tracey |
| RAPVIDEO | Sun Aug 17, 2014 | 50 Cent piece | Caleb Madison |
| REMISSION | Sun Feb 5, 1995 | Amnesty | Frank A. Longo |
| SCAREY | Sun Oct 5, 2008 | Chilling: Var. | Byron Walden |
| SOAKSUP | Mon Feb 19, 2018 | Absorbs | Bruce Haight |
| SOUSVIDE | Thu Nov 17, 2022 | French-developed form of cooking in a precisely temperature-controlled water bath | Hoang-Kim Vu and Jessica Zetzman |
| STOLEHOME | Mon Dec 24, 2012 | What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series | Michael Sharp |
| STYLINGGEL | Sun May 14, 2023 | Hair salon goo | Sid Sivakumar |
| TANNERIES | Tue Feb 17, 2015 | They convert hides to leather | Bruce Haight |
| THEOKCORRAL | Wed Oct 11, 2017 | See 28-Down ... or a punny description of this puzzle's circled answers? | David J. Kahn |
| TIDELESS | Sun Dec 17, 1995 | Not rising or falling, as a sea | Dean Niles |
| TOUGHONCRIME | Tue Apr 7, 2015 | Advocating long sentences, say | David J. Lieb |
| TRANSFIX | Thu Apr 15, 2010 | Fascinate | Brendan Emmett Quigley & Joon Pahk |
| WATERMAIN | Tue Jan 10, 1995 | Major pipe | Christopher Page |
| WENTUPTO | Sun Dec 3, 2006 | Approached | Patrick Merrell |
| WHITEBOARD | Mon Jan 19, 2015 | Surface for a dry-erase marker | Jean O'Conor |