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 50,404 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANIMATEDGESTURE | Fri Oct 3, 1997 | An angry speaker might make it | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| BEERPULL | Sun Sep 11, 2016 | Tavern tap handle | Ned White and George Barany |
| BEIGNETS | Sun Nov 6, 2022 | Fried pastries popular in New Orleans | Michael Lieberman |
| CAMPAIGNPROMISES | Sun Jul 16, 2023 | Forerunners of flip-flops? | Michael Schlossberg |
| DAMNRIGHT | Tue May 28, 2019 | "Hell, yeah!" | Aimee Lucido |
| DEADCENTER | Thu May 10, 2018 | Bull's-eye ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | Caitlin Reid |
| DEVRY | Fri Jan 29, 2016 | For-profit university with dozens of U.S. campuses | David Phillips |
| DRYROAST | Fri Nov 4, 2016 | Process, in a way, as peanuts | David Steinberg |
| EFFAMANLEY | Thu Aug 17, 2023 | First woman in the National Baseball Hall of Fame | Erik Agard |
| ELECTEDOFFICIAL | Sat Dec 29, 2012 | Governor, e.g. | Joe Krozel |
| ESKIMOPIE | Sun Sep 15, 2002 | Cold treat | Fred Piscop |
| EXCESSIVE | Sun Jan 26, 2014 | 95-Down, relatively | Daniel A. Finan |
| FIFTYPOINTBONUS | Thu May 14, 2020 | Bingo, in Scrabble | Michael Schlossberg |
| FIRSTSECONDTHIRD | Mon Sep 6, 1999 | Finishing order | Manny Nosowsky |
| FOURTEENTHSTREET | Sun Sep 26, 2004 | Skier Picabo finishing 11 places down from the bronze? | Joe DiPietro |
| GAZING | Tue Mar 12, 2013 | Staring | Bruce Sutphin and Neville Fogarty |
| HEINRICH | Thu Mar 21, 1996 | Maj. Strasser in "Casablanca" | H. Estes |
| INSIDEASIA | Sat Jan 22, 2000 | Classic 1939 John Gunther book | David J. Kahn |
| KEEPA | Sun May 2, 2004 | ___ low profile | Derrick Niederman |
| LACKEYS | Sat Jun 27, 2009 | Henchmen | Trip Payne |
| MARIANIST | Thu Apr 18, 1996 | Worshiper of Jesus' mother | A. J. Santora |
| MILLIESMALL | Sun Aug 10, 2014 | *Singer with the 1964 #2 hit "My Boy Lollipop" [the Bushes 41] | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ODDMENOUT | Wed Jul 9, 2008 | *They don't belong | Tim Wescott |
| ONESTROGEN | Fri Sep 12, 2025 | Receiving a certain hormone treatment | Joe Marquez |
| PANELLED | Sun Oct 16, 1994 | Like a den, often | Raymond Hamel |
| PRECAST | Sun Jun 18, 2017 | Like concrete that's shaped in advance | Sam Trabucco |
| QUITTER | Sun Jan 17, 1999 | Proverbial loser | Cathy Millhauser |
| RAVEMUSIC | Thu Jun 2, 2016 | Electro house or dubstep | Susan Gelfand |
| REPLACED | Sat Nov 22, 2014 | Succeeded | David Steinberg |
| SAVING | Sun Sep 13, 2020 | Hitting the floppy disk icon, say | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| SAYSNOTO | Fri Aug 18, 2006 | Refuses | Joe DiPietro |
| SIDLEUP | Tue Apr 24, 2018 | Approach furtively, with "to" | Peter Gordon |
| SILKTREE | Tue May 23, 2006 | Ornamental plant with fernlike foliage | Alan Arbesfeld |
| SMALLTIME | Fri Oct 13, 2023 | Two-bit | John-Clark Levin |
| SNORKELERS | Thu Nov 20, 2014 | They're hooked up to breathing tubes | Timothy Polin |
| TOOLITTLETOOLATE | Thu Apr 13, 2023 | Not enough, and without the urgency, to make a difference … or a literal hint to 18-, 30-, 38- and 48-Across | Robin Yu |
| UPPERBOUND | Sat Nov 22, 2025 | End of a set, in mathematics | Blake Slonecker |
| VEGEMITE | Thu Oct 15, 2020 | Brand of spread for sandwiches and toast | Lindsey Hobbs |
| WROTH | Thu Dec 2, 2004 | Angry | Patrick Berry |
| ZOOEXHIBIT | Sat Mar 22, 2014 | One often behind bars | Greg Johnson |