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 50,609 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCUSATIONS | Thu Apr 27, 2023 | Charges lacking merit, literally | Michael Schlossberg |
| BAWDINESS | Tue Nov 7, 2006 | Blue state | Bruce P. Douglas |
| BIGLOSER | Fri Aug 24, 2018 | Zero | Roland Huget |
| BIGWEST | Sun Feb 28, 2021 | Conference with five University of California schools | Brad Wiegmann |
| BOMP | Wed Apr 30, 1997 | Nonsense word repeated in a 1961 hit | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BROOMED | Thu Jun 26, 2014 | *Leeway | Pawel Fludzinski |
| CANTFEELMYFACE | Sun Dec 21, 2025 | 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd | David Kwong |
| DANNYOCEAN | Fri Aug 7, 2020 | Film part for Frank Sinatra and George Clooney | Tom Pepper |
| FLUSTER | Sun Jan 7, 1996 | Psych out | Eric Albert |
| GENUINELY | Sat Apr 18, 2009 | From the heart | Byron Walden |
| GLASSTUMBLER | Fri Aug 9, 2024 | Cocktail vessel | Hemant Mehta |
| GOOGLEABLE | Tue Dec 16, 2025 | Easily found on the internet, say | Jason Reich |
| HBODRAMAS | Sat Aug 17, 2024 | "True Detective" and "The Wire," for two | Brandon Koppy |
| HEDGENETTLE | Sun Jan 19, 2020 | Wildflower with spiky, purplish blooms | Victor Barocas |
| HOWLER | Thu Feb 16, 2012 | Screwup | Jim Page |
| HOWNICEOFYOU | Sun May 26, 2002 | "Thanks so much!" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| IRIDS | Sun Oct 27, 1996 | Crocus and gladiolus | N. N. Joline |
| IXIA | Fri Jul 18, 2008 | Showy flower of the iris family | Mike Nothnagel |
| JOBLESSRATE | Fri Nov 1, 2002 | Economist's concern | Joe DiPietro |
| JOTTER | Fri May 1, 2015 | Notepad user | David Steinberg |
| JUMBOCD | Sat May 19, 2007 | Institutional investment | Byron Walden |
| KANPAI | Wed Jul 19, 2017 | Japanese toast | Michael S. Maurer and Pawel Fludzinski |
| LIFEONTHERUN | Wed Jul 5, 2017 | Travel edition of a classic board game? | Jake Halperin |
| MOREEN | Sun Aug 24, 2003 | Heavy drapery fabric | Patrick Berry |
| NATLS | Thu Jun 12, 1997 | Big-time competition: Abbr. | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| OBJECTORS | Sun Apr 11, 2021 | Naysayers | Dick Shlakman and Will Nediger |
| ONEHORSEPLOWS | Thu Apr 25, 2013 | Primitive farming equipment | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| OUTWEST | Thu Jun 2, 2005 | Where many American pioneers settled | Levi Denham |
| PEGIN | Mon Oct 21, 1996 | A square ___ a round hole | J. Bender |
| POPA | Fri Sep 16, 2011 | ___ wheelie | Joe DiPietro |
| QUEASILY | Thu Dec 21, 2000 | How a stomach might react to strange food | Manny Nosowsky |
| QUITCOLDTURKEY | Sun Aug 14, 2022 | Give up all at once (Ecuador) | Jeff Chen and Jim Horne |
| RAMBLES | Thu Nov 17, 2016 | Doesn't stick to the topic | Timothy Polin and Joe Krozel |
| RECONCILEDTO | Fri Aug 24, 2007 | Reluctantly accepting | Patrick Berry |
| RELIESUPON | Sun Jan 7, 2018 | Trusts | David Steinberg |
| SLEDDING | Wed Aug 24, 1994 | Winter sport | Robert Herrig |
| SMILLA | Sat Jan 18, 1997 | Title character in a Peter Hoeg best seller | D. Niles |
| STOCKYARDS | Fri Aug 29, 2008 | Where many heads are put together | Mike Nothnagel |
| WIMOWEH | Sat Feb 2, 2013 | Title under which "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" originally charted, in 1952 | Gareth Bain |
| WINGBEAT | Sun Jan 28, 2007 | A hummingbird has a fast one | Victor Fleming and Bruce Venzke |