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 50,408 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADMIRALBYRD | Sat Jun 12, 2004 | Polar explorer dropping by? | Henry Hook |
| ALTROCK | Sun Jul 19, 2020 | Genre for the Smashing Pumpkins and Liz Phair | Wyna Liu |
| ANDSTAYOUT | Fri Dec 15, 2023 | "Don't even think of coming back!" | Alex Tomlinson |
| COCKCROW | Sun May 15, 2005 | Daybreak | Patrick Berry |
| COINDEALER | Fri Jan 14, 2011 | One who knows the value of a dollar | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| DEPRIVES | Mon Jun 15, 2009 | Takes away from, with "of" | John Dunn |
| DOORMATS | Fri Sep 2, 2005 | Easily-used people | Sherry O. Blackard |
| DREAMBIG | Mon Jun 9, 2025 | Shoot for the stars | Aimee Lucido |
| DXIX | Wed Aug 10, 2016 | 519, in old Rome | David C. Duncan Dekker |
| EPICDRAMA | Sun Nov 2, 2025 | "Ben-Hur" or "Lawrence of Arabia" | Rafael Musa |
| FAREWELLS | Fri Jan 1, 2016 | Parting chorus | David Steinberg |
| FOXYLADY | Fri Jan 6, 2012 | 1967 hit with the lyric "You know you're a cute little heartbreaker" | David Steinberg |
| GUTSILY | Thu Apr 17, 2003 | With a lot of nerve | Eric Berlin |
| HIGHSPEEDDIALUP | Sun Sep 22, 2019 | Accelerated alternative to broadband | Tracy Gray |
| HORSEBACKRIDER | Sun Dec 26, 2021 | One wearing chapstick, perhaps | Christina Iverson |
| INTHEVERNACULAR | Fri Apr 22, 1994 | How natives communicate | A.J. Santora |
| LASTPENNY | Sat Jan 26, 2013 | What a broke person is down to | Raymond C. Young |
| LISTINGS | Sat Feb 18, 1995 | TV Guide material | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| MADEBAIL | Fri Feb 4, 2005 | Went free, at least for now | Robert Bridges |
| MAKEMEFEELLIKEDANCING | Sun Jun 27, 1999 | You (1977) | Robert Malinow |
| MATHEXAMS | Tue Nov 14, 2023 | Things that might have kids going off on a tangent? | Matthew Linzer |
| NEXTDOORNEIGHBOR | Sun May 29, 2011 | Seinfeld vis-à-vis Kramer | Jeremy Newton and Tony Orbach |
| OCREA | Thu Aug 14, 2008 | Papery sheath on a plant stem | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| PERMISSION | Thu Aug 14, 1997 | O.K. | David J. Kahn |
| REAO | Sun Aug 9, 1998 | Island in French Polynesia | Christopher Hurt |
| SHETLAND | Fri Feb 26, 2021 | Northernmost part of the U.K. | Chuck Deodene |
| SKIPJACKS | Sat Aug 18, 2018 | Certain fish ... or sailboats | Mark Diehl |
| SOLDIERSON | Sat Jul 5, 2008 | Perseveres | Karen M. Tracey |
| STAMPEDES | Sat Jan 16, 1999 | Horse races? | Rich Norris |
| STEEPENED | Fri Nov 28, 1997 | Made more precipitous | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| STIGMATA | Sun Feb 19, 1995 | Blemishes | Alfio Micci |
| STRETCHES | Sat Feb 2, 2013 | Highway sections | Gareth Bain |
| TAXIMETER | Thu Dec 24, 1998 | It runs while you ride | Jim Page |
| THENEWXMEN | Sun Jul 21, 2002 | Marvel superhero group | Trip Payne |
| TOTEBOARDS | Fri Nov 17, 1995 | Track fixtures | Fran & Lou Sabin |
| TRANSMIGRATIONS | Sat Aug 7, 2010 | Souls' post-death passages | Joe Krozel |
| VISUALGAG | Sat Nov 18, 2023 | Photo of someone holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, say | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| VONSYDOW | Sat Nov 12, 2011 | Player of the evil Blofeld in "Never Say Never Again" | Barry C. Silk |
| WHANG | Sun Nov 23, 1997 | Loud, resonant sound | Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague |
| WOLFES | Sun Sep 8, 1996 | Tom and Thomas | R. H. Wolfe |