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 51,097 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BADHABITS | Sun Feb 10, 2019 | Subjects of some New Year's resolutions | Lee Taylor |
| BIGGAMES | Fri Apr 11, 2014 | Bowls, e.g. | Peter Wentz |
| BINGOCARD | Sat Nov 8, 2025 | Accessory with a grid of numbers | Ryan Judge |
| CHAPERONS | Sat Mar 8, 1997 | Some supervisors | Rich Norris |
| CONVOKED | Sat Sep 11, 1999 | Called | Rich Norris |
| CRISTAL | Sun Sep 5, 2010 | Champagne often mentioned in hip-hop songs | Will Nediger |
| DVDPLAYER | Fri Jun 14, 2002 | Cinephile's purchase | Randolph Ross |
| EMBLAZONED | Sat Dec 31, 1994 | Brilliantly decorated | Alex K. Justin |
| FABLABS | Wed Aug 21, 2024 | Workspaces with 3-D printers and laser cutters, informally | Stacey Yaruss McCullough |
| GOACROSSTOWN | Sat Jun 26, 2004 | Take a city bus, perhaps | Byron Walden |
| HAPPYJUICE | Tue Feb 6, 2007 | Booze | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| HEADSTONES | Sat Jun 25, 2016 | Grave accents? | Kameron Austin Collins |
| HIGHERPOWER | Thu Nov 5, 2015 | Divine being ... or a hint to 17-, 31- and 48-Across | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| HISPANICHERITAGE | Thu May 26, 2011 | It's celebrated for 30 days each year beginning September 15 | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| HUEVOSRANCHEROS | Fri Aug 30, 2013 | Alternative to a breakfast burrito | David Steinberg |
| IDOLWORSHIP | Tue Jul 20, 2010 | Veneration of a cult image | Ed Sessa |
| JOEYRAMONE | Fri Jan 18, 2013 | Rock icon for whom a Manhattan block is named | Tim Croce |
| JUSTINTRUDEAU | Mon Sep 22, 2025 | Canadian P.M. who is the son of another Canadian P.M. | Dena R. Verkuil and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| LEFTATHOME | Mon Aug 22, 1994 | Like Macaulay Culkin, in a 1990 movie | Sidney L. Robbins |
| MALENURSE | Sat Jul 27, 2013 | Member of a medical minority | John Lieb and David Quarfoot |
| NAHUATLAN | Sat Sep 5, 1998 | Mexican tongue | Thomas W. Schier |
| NIGHS | Wed Jun 21, 1995 | Nears, old-style | Dorothea E. Shipp |
| ONBLAST | Mon Dec 9, 2024 | Subjected to public condemnation, in modern slang | Elliot Caroll |
| PAINMANAGEMENT | Sun Nov 4, 2012 | Overseeing of a Bayonne bakery? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PICTUREMAGAZINE | Tue Oct 16, 2018 | Periodical format not much seen nowadays | Ed Sessa |
| POURMONEYDOWNTHEDRAIN | Sun May 28, 2017 | Step 4: Be a financial wastrel | Andrew Zhou |
| PRESTISSIMO | Sun Oct 29, 1995 | As fast as possible | Maura B. Jacobson |
| PROGRESSBAR | Thu Oct 31, 2024 | Graphic showing the status of a download, say | Sarah Sinclair and Paolo Pasco |
| RENOWNS | Sun Feb 11, 2024 | Acclaims | Peter Koetters |
| REPELLENT | Tue Nov 11, 2003 | Bug spray | M. Francis Vuolo |
| RUBUP | Sun Mar 26, 1995 | Refresh one's memory of, in England | Rich Norris |
| RUMMAGED | Sat Apr 10, 1999 | Sifted (through) | A. J. Santora |
| SEWERAGE | Wed Oct 6, 1999 | Ed Norton's field of work | Fred Piscop |
| SNOWPIERCER | Sun May 1, 2022 | 2013 Bong Joon Ho thriller | Brandon Koppy |
| SOIWASLIKE | Sat Mar 21, 2020 | Slangy part of a conversation recap | Damon Gulczynski |
| TANGLY | Sat May 29, 2021 | All knotted up | Adam Aaronson |
| TELEPHONELINE | Sun Aug 18, 2013 | It may come down in a storm | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TERRYCREWS | Fri Jul 10, 2020 | "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" actor who played in the N.F.L. | John Lieb |
| THEREDROVER | Fri Dec 14, 2012 | Sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper | Paula Gamache |
| TRUMPETERSWAN | Thu Feb 29, 2024 | Esha Datta |