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 50,259 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADUMP | Sun Apr 16, 2006 | "What ___!" (famed Bette Davis line) | Mike Torch |
| BIGGESTFAN | Fri Sep 29, 2006 | Admirer, and then some | David Quarfoot |
| BREADCRUMB | Wed Feb 7, 2001 | Tidbit for a bird feeder | Kent Lorentzen |
| CHALKUP | Sat Apr 19, 1997 | Ascribe (to) | Rich Norris |
| CLIPPING | Thu Apr 6, 2023 | Part of a collage, perhaps | Sam Buttrey |
| CORNFIELDS | Thu Feb 10, 2000 | Crows' hangouts | Manny Nosowsky |
| CRACKUNDERPRESSURE | Thu Aug 1, 2013 | With 22-Across, fail to cope with difficult circumstances | Timothy Polin |
| DEDICATEE | Sun Jan 16, 2000 | Name in the front of a book | Fred Piscop |
| DENTALBRIDGES | Wed Jun 14, 2006 | Body parts never driven over | Lisa Wiseman |
| GADDED | Wed Jan 30, 2013 | Traipsed (about) | Will Nediger |
| GTD | Sat Apr 21, 2001 | Ensured: Abbr. | David J. Kahn |
| HANDVAC | Mon Jul 20, 2020 | Dust buster | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| HIGHWAYTOLL | Mon Feb 27, 2012 | E-ZPass pays it | Bill Thompson |
| HOMEPAGES | Sun Dec 25, 2022 | "Little House on the Prairie," e.g.? | John Martz |
| INDULGENT | Wed Oct 30, 2024 | Overly lenient | Josh M. Kaufmann |
| LAPINS | Sun Dec 21, 2003 | Rabbit furs | Frances Hansen |
| LOSTSOULS | Thu Nov 3, 2022 | Directionless sorts | Chase Dittrich and Jeff Chen |
| MATHEXAMS | Tue Nov 14, 2023 | Things that might have kids going off on a tangent? | Matthew Linzer |
| NIBBLERS | Wed Feb 6, 2019 | Dainty eaters | Queena Mewers and Alex Eaton-Salners |
| OFEVE | Wed May 22, 2002 | "The Three Faces ___" | Sherry O. Blackard |
| PIETER | Fri Feb 21, 2003 | 1980's South African president ___ Botha | Patrick Berry |
| PLUGINS | Tue Apr 24, 2018 | Software add-ons that offer extra features | Peter Gordon |
| RAWPOWER | Fri Aug 23, 2002 | Brute strength | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| RINGOS | Sun Jul 2, 2006 | Starr and others | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SCOOPEDUP | Tue Jul 22, 2025 | Eagerly obtained ... or a hint to the contents of this puzzle's shaded squares? | Jeremy Newton |
| SEARATS | Sat Jan 1, 2022 | Pirates, in old slang | Peter Wentz |
| SHASTAS | Thu Jun 5, 2003 | Some daisies | David J. Kahn |
| SHOWERFLOW | Sun Mar 24, 2002 | Thing that's adjustable in some bathrooms? | Con Pederson |
| SMIFF | Tue Mar 9, 2010 | Knucklehead ___, Paul Winchell dummy of old TV | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| SPLITTHEBILL | Wed Apr 12, 2017 | Go Dutch ... or a hint to 20-, 28-, 37- and 44-Across | Emily Carroll |
| STATIONHOUSES | Fri Jan 9, 2015 | Law offices? | Patrick Berry |
| STRONGLANGUAGE | Mon Dec 3, 2007 | Profanity, e.g. | Harvey Estes |
| SWATTEAM | Fri Mar 25, 2011 | Help in a dangerous situation | Mike Nothnagel |
| THEGATESOFHELL | Tue Mar 9, 2010 | 15-/23-Across location | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| THINSKINNED | Mon Jun 20, 2011 | Easily offended | Lynn Lempel |
| TORONTORAPTORS | Mon May 27, 2019 | Canadian team in the N.B.A. | Bruce Haight |
| ULTIMATEFRISBEE | Thu Sep 28, 2017 | Widely played sport developed at Amherst College in the 1960s | Joe Krozel |
| UNTRACED | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | Not followed | Joe DiPietro |
| VEGANDIET | Sun Aug 21, 2016 | Regimen adopted by Bill Clinton in 2010 | Kathy Matheson and Jeff Chen |
| WATERCLOCK | Wed Oct 7, 2020 | Something the ancient Egyptians used for keeping time | Ross Trudeau |