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 50,620 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGOODWOMAN | Sun Apr 9, 2017 | 2004 Scarlett Johansson film adapted from "Lady Windermere's Fan" | Byron Walden |
| AIREDALES | Sat Aug 20, 2011 | President Harding's Laddie Boy and others | Byron Walden |
| AIRWALK | Fri Dec 18, 2009 | High passageway between buildings | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ARENOSE | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | Gritty | Frank Longo |
| BESTPAL | Tue May 20, 2025 | Closest confidant | Rena Cohen |
| BILINGUAL | Tue Aug 29, 2006 | Like many immigrants | David Pringle |
| CAMPAIGNWARCHEST | Sun Aug 1, 2004 | Funds ran low in the candidate's ___ | Randolph Ross |
| CHANGEOFCLOTHES | Thu Apr 4, 1996 | What a pickpocket clears | M. Diehl |
| CHIEFJOSEPH | Wed Mar 29, 2006 | Nez Percé leader | Frances Hansen (1919-2004) |
| DAGWOODBUMSTEAD | Thu Aug 10, 1995 | Office napper of note | Matt Gaffney |
| DCPOWER | Sun Jun 2, 2024 | What's generated by solar panels | Luke K. Schreiber |
| DESIDERATA | Fri Aug 10, 2001 | Needed things | Manny Nosowsky |
| FINSTA | Wed Sep 27, 2023 | Second social media account for posting private jokes and such, informally | Scott Koenig |
| FOOTWORN | Tue Feb 22, 2022 | Well-trodden, as a path | Jacob McDermott |
| HELLIONS | Sun Apr 13, 2014 | Troublemakers | Dan Schoenholz |
| ICEFISH | Sun Jun 14, 2020 | Sit out on a frozen lake, say | Randolph Ross |
| ITSTOODEEPFORME | Fri Sep 15, 2006 | Comment when something is over your head | Harvey Estes |
| LESSEROFTWOEVILS | Thu Feb 19, 2026 | Better choice, given the options ... or the circled squares vis-à-vis the shaded ones? | John Ewbank |
| MACGYVERS | Sat Aug 17, 2024 | Fashions out of whatever's lying around | Brandon Koppy |
| MAKEMERRY | Fri Jul 1, 1994 | Whoop it up | Mel Taub |
| MONKEYEDWITH | Fri Feb 14, 2003 | Changed but not seriously | M. Francis Vuolo |
| NORSEGODDESS | Thu Nov 2, 2023 | Pe_ _ _phone | Chase Dittrich and Christina Iverson |
| OUTROS | Mon Feb 23, 2026 | "Please like and subscribe" and the like, on YouTube videos | Hannah Binney |
| PARTSONGS | Fri Mar 31, 2023 | Blended numbers | Rich Norris |
| POCKETKNIFE | Sun Mar 19, 2006 | Handy-dandy tool | Michael Shteyman |
| POSTAGEPAID | Fri Feb 4, 2005 | Ready to go free | Robert Bridges |
| PUTTEES | Sat Feb 7, 2026 | Woolen leggings, as worn by W.W. I soldiers | Mark Diehl |
| ROYALFAMILY | Sat Aug 3, 2013 | Court group | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| SIDEARMED | Fri Oct 26, 2018 | Pitched horizontally | Evan Kalish |
| SIDEWINDER | Thu Oct 7, 2010 | Southwestern rattler | Patrick Blindauer |
| SNOWYOWL | Sun May 10, 2009 | Quebec's official bird | Patrick Berry |
| STOWER | Sat Apr 15, 2006 | Longshoreman, at times | Bob Peoples |
| TESSTRUEHEART | Sun Nov 2, 1997 | Comics girlfriend | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| UNDERARREST | Sat Jan 21, 2012 | Oppressed by the heat? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| UNWIELDY | Sat Sep 20, 2014 | Hard to handle | Erik Agard |
| WALKEDONTHEMOON | Wed Jul 20, 2005 | What 20- and 50-Across did on July 20, 1969 | Roy Leban |
| WELLILLBEDAMNED | Wed Jul 10, 2013 | "Really!" | Ed Sessa |
| WORKSWITHOUTANET | Sun Sep 25, 2022 | Has no plan B ... or, when parsed differently, what each of the starred clues does vis-à-vis its answer? | Meghan Morris |
| WREATHES | Thu Oct 26, 1995 | Shapes into a garland | Jim Page |
| ZINNIAS | Wed Feb 27, 2002 | Showy annuals | Brendan Emmett Quigley |