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 50,504 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AREWETHERE | Sat Aug 14, 2004 | Question from the back seat | Joe DiPietro |
| BARGINGINON | Fri Jun 10, 2022 | Rudely interrupting | Blake Slonecker |
| BOSNIAN | Thu Sep 12, 1996 | Citizen of Mostar | K. Hodge |
| BRIBABLE | Sun Jun 20, 2010 | Venal | Todd Gross and Ashish Vengsarkar |
| CHILDPROOF | Tue Aug 13, 2019 | Safe for youngsters | Lynn Lempel |
| DEBARRED | Sun Jul 9, 1995 | Excluded | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| DECKLE | Sat Jul 4, 2020 | Bookmaking frame that produces paper with rough edges | Peter Wentz |
| DOGBISCUIT | Tue Aug 9, 2005 | Treat for a trick | Victor Fleming |
| EFILER | Sat Jan 23, 2021 | One going paperless in April, say | Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber |
| ENARBOR | Sun Nov 19, 1995 | Surround with trees | Cathy Millhauser |
| ENISLED | Sun Aug 27, 1995 | Quarantined | Martin Schneider |
| FRUSTUM | Sun Nov 5, 1995 | Curtailed cone, in geometry | Dean Niles |
| GOOBSOLETE | Fri Apr 5, 2024 | Fade from use | Rebecca Goldstein |
| HAVEABEER | Sat Jun 20, 2015 | Kick back while watching the ball game, say | Kyle T. Dolan |
| HIGHDRAMA | Sun Jun 2, 2019 | Tension in a stoner movie? | Erik Agard |
| LEVELLER | Sun Nov 5, 1995 | Bulldozer, in Brighton | Dean Niles |
| MARSHLANDS | Sun Apr 14, 2002 | Where bulrushes grow | David J. Kahn |
| MOLLIFY | Wed Aug 2, 2023 | Placate | Barbara Lin |
| MORMONS | Sat Feb 1, 2025 | Group that practices baptism for the dead | Kate Chin Park and Rafael Musa |
| NATHANDETROIT | Tue Jul 18, 1995 | "Guys and Dolls" guy | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| NODESIRE | Sun Apr 6, 2008 | Zero interest | Daniel C. Bryant |
| OBVIOUS | Sun Feb 10, 2002 | Hardly subtle | Harvey Estes & Nancy Salomon |
| PLEASING | Mon Nov 22, 1999 | Harmonious | Frances Hansen |
| PROLONGED | Thu Apr 29, 2021 | Extended the duration of | Adam Wagner |
| RAPES | Tue Mar 1, 1994 | Mustard plants* | D.J. Listort |
| REALLYSOMETHING | Fri Jul 2, 2021 | Out of the ordinary | Brooke Husic and Ada Nicolle |
| RENEGINGON | Fri May 13, 2011 | Backing out of | Joe Krozel |
| RUBBEDITIN | Fri Sep 14, 2001 | Said "nyah, nyah, nyah" | Mark Diehl |
| SAVESUP | Fri Mar 26, 2004 | Is able to 38-Down money | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SEPARABLE | Sat Jul 11, 2009 | Not too tight? | Karen M. Tracey |
| SHARECROP | Sat Jul 23, 2005 | Farm, in a way | Joe DiPietro |
| SMOOTHREENTRY | Sun Sep 20, 1998 | Success for a returning space shuttle | Charles M. Deber |
| SUCHTHAT | Mon May 14, 2012 | So | John Dunn |
| SUNGLASSLENS | Tue Dec 22, 2015 | Something in a movie star's frame? | Tom McCoy |
| SWORDSWALLOWING | Tue Jan 5, 1999 | Circus act | Lyell Rodieck |
| TAKEMYWIFEPLEASE | Sun Jul 27, 2014 | Laugh line | Randolph Ross |
| THETHREESISTERS | Wed Nov 27, 2024 | Corn, beans and squash, in Mesoamerican tradition ... or a hint to six answers in this puzzle | Jill Singer |
| THIRSTER | Sat Sep 21, 1996 | One with a hankering, as for knowledge | R. H. Burns |
| WORKOUTROUTINE | Sun May 19, 2019 | Gym rat's development | Natan Last |
| YOUREOUTOFTHISWORLD | Sun Jul 22, 2007 | "Sorry to bother you, but do you work for NASA? Because ..." | David Levinson Wilk |