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 50,421 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APOLLOX | Sun Nov 25, 2012 | Lunar mission commanded by Thomas P. Stafford | Jeff Chen |
| ARTOFWAR | Tue Jul 17, 2007 | *Classic Chinese military treatise, with "The" | Natan Last |
| BEACHGOER | Tue Jul 23, 2013 | One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe | Jean O'Conor |
| BOSCAGE | Sat Nov 30, 1996 | Thicket | R. Norris |
| BRAINPOWER | Sat Jul 26, 2025 | Smarts | Adam Levav |
| BURNED | Sat Apr 20, 1996 | Stung | R. Norris |
| CHICKENWIRE | Thu May 18, 2017 | Coop material | Jacob Stulberg |
| CLARES | Thu Mar 20, 1997 | Luce and others | A. J. Santora |
| COLLEGEGRAD | Sat Dec 21, 2024 | One who's made it to some degree? | Barbara Lin and Lewis Rothlein |
| DOUBLECROSSES | Thu Mar 22, 2001 | Combination punch? | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| DOUBLETS | Tue Nov 27, 2007 | 2 and 12, e.g., in dice | Julie Ann Bowling |
| EATDESSERTFIRST | Sat Jan 8, 2022 | "Life is short. ___" (Jacques Torres quip) | Freddie Cheng |
| ENGLANDANDWALES | Fri Jan 14, 2011 | Union of 1284 | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| ESPION | Sat Dec 16, 1995 | French secret agent | Bryant White |
| GOESNEXT | Tue Jun 9, 2009 | Is on deck | Steve Dobis |
| HOTWIRING | Sat Feb 6, 2021 | Getting started the wrong way? | Kameron Austin Collins |
| INTERSECTS | Fri Jul 29, 2016 | Cuts through | John Guzzetta |
| JAMESSPADER | Thu Oct 23, 2025 | Star of NBC's "The Blacklist" | Aimee Lucido |
| KEGLER | Sun Feb 26, 2012 | X X X lover? | Daniel A. Finan |
| KINGJOHN | Mon Jun 15, 2015 | He sealed the 19-Across | Mike Buckley |
| LAWCOURT | Tue Jan 21, 2003 | Where some suits are pressed | Richard Chisholm |
| MAJORDOMOS | Fri Sep 21, 2001 | Chief stewards | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MAYE | Sun Aug 13, 2006 | Lee of the old Milwaukee Braves | Derrick Niederman |
| MOMENTA | Sun Dec 17, 2006 | Mass x velocity measurements | Joe DiPietro |
| NITPICKED | Sat Sep 30, 2000 | Split hairs | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| NODOUS | Sat Mar 4, 1995 | Knotty | Rand H. Burns |
| OLDERBROTHER | Sun Jul 3, 2022 | "Sheesh!" | Tom McCoy |
| OVERLEND | Thu Jan 25, 1996 | Make too great an advance | D. Kahn |
| PATONTHEBACK | Mon Aug 29, 2005 | Bit of encouragement | Sarah Keller |
| PIVOTSHOT | Fri Jan 28, 2000 | Court trial? | Manny Nosowsky and Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| PRIORATES | Wed Apr 13, 2011 | Monastic offices | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ROASTHAMS | Mon Feb 21, 2022 | Christmas entrees | Natalie Murphy |
| SETONEND | Sat Sep 25, 2021 | Turned vertically | Adam Simon Levine |
| SIRET | Sat Mar 16, 1996 | River to the Danube | G. R. Ferguson |
| SOBFEST | Sun Apr 3, 2022 | Big tear-jerker | Byron Walden |
| TALKEDABLUESTREAK | Sun Jun 2, 2013 | Chattered on and on and on | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| THECATSKILLS | Wed Aug 14, 2019 | Upstate New York area where 63-Across was held | David J. Kahn |
| TRUMBO | Fri May 5, 2017 | Title role for Bryan Cranston in a 2015 biopic | Patrick Berry |
| TUTORIAL | Sat Jan 3, 2004 | Help | James M. and James C. Jenista |
| WHATSSOFUNNY | Fri Jun 12, 2020 | "Why are you all laughing?" | Robyn Weintraub |