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 50,654 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADHOCCOMMITTEE | Thu Jun 12, 2025 | Temporarily established panel | Daniel Bodily |
| AMAZONWAREHOUSE | Tue Jan 20, 2026 | Modern pickup spot for delivery drivers | Jonathan Raksin |
| BITEYOURTONGUE | Mon Oct 13, 1997 | "Hush!" | Gregory E. Paul |
| BRAGGED | Thu Oct 2, 2003 | Gasconaded | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CALCULI | Wed Feb 13, 2013 | Dental deposits | Richard and Judith Martin |
| CAROLINEKENNEDY | Tue Feb 8, 1994 | Lefty celebrity relative | Peter Gordon |
| CHAPALA | Sun Jun 6, 2010 | Mexico's largest lake | Daniel A. Finan |
| CONCRETES | Thu Jan 25, 2018 | *They're not pros | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| CREEPOUT | Tue Oct 8, 2019 | Give the heebie-jeebies | Ross Trudeau |
| EAGLESCOUTS | Sun Sep 11, 1994 | N.F.L. recruiters? | Louis Sabin |
| EMASCULATE | Fri Nov 17, 2023 | Neuter | Hemant Mehta |
| FREETV | Fri Apr 29, 2016 | Onetime motel come-on | Andrew Kingsley |
| FRUSTRATION | Wed Jul 15, 2009 | Feeling of nonfulfillment | Joon Pahk |
| GANGSTERRAP | Wed Dec 6, 2006 | Hip-hop subgenre | Levi Denham |
| HEADGAMES | Thu May 13, 2021 | Psy-ops, say | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| MAKEANOFFER | Mon Aug 1, 2005 | Start a negotiation | Kendall Twigg |
| MANDOLINS | Fri Dec 14, 2001 | Some trattoria music | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MONTMARTRE | Sat Mar 5, 2011 | Area where Dalí, Monet, Picasso and van Gogh all painted | Randolph Ross |
| NORMABATES | Wed Sep 16, 2015 | "Psycho" character who is (spoiler alert!) actually a corpse | Joel Fagliano and Finn Vigeland |
| NORMCORE | Wed Sep 25, 2019 | Fashion trend that involves comfortable, regular-looking clothing | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| NUTCRACKER | Wed Jun 10, 1998 | 1892 Tchaikovsky ballet, with "The" | Nancy S. Ross |
| ONETOOFEW | Sun Jun 25, 2023 | Not quite enough | John Westwig |
| PARACHUTEJUMP | Sun Feb 8, 2009 | Bygone Coney Island attraction | Alan Arbesfeld |
| PARONOMASIA | Tue Aug 25, 2015 | Art of punning | John E. Bennett |
| PARTNERTRACK | Mon Jan 20, 2025 | Path of advancement for a lawyer | Katie Byl and Jeff Chen |
| PETERMAX | Sat Feb 10, 2007 | Artist on the cover of a 1969 Life magazine | Bob Peoples |
| RATESATEN | Sat Mar 1, 2025 | Deems perfect, perhaps | Ryan Judge |
| SAMMYFAIN | Fri Apr 4, 2014 | Songwriters Hall of Fame member who wrote "April Love" | Martin Ashwood-Smith and Joe Krozel |
| SEADUCK | Sun Nov 29, 2015 | Goldeneye or harlequin | Alex Vratsanos |
| SIDEARMPITCHES | Mon Mar 25, 2002 | Some thrown baseballs | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| SLAMDUNKS | Sun Sep 7, 2025 | Sure things | Derrick Niederman |
| SPACEJUNK | Sat Nov 15, 2008 | Debris around the world? | Karen M. Tracey |
| STAYWITHIT | Mon Mar 10, 2003 | "Keep going!" | Gail Grabowski |
| STRAWBERRYWINE | Mon Dec 25, 2023 | 1996 Deana Carter hit with the lyric "My first taste of love, oh, bittersweet" | Amie Walker |
| TENTPOLE | Fri Aug 8, 2025 | Stick around camp? | Rafael Musa and Matthew Stock |
| THEBOMB | Wed May 13, 2020 | Phat | Benjamin Kramer |
| THEYREOFF | Wed Dec 7, 2005 | Track cry after "and" | Manny Nosowsky |
| USRIVER | Thu May 1, 1997 | The N. Platte, e.g. | Martin Schneider |
| WHUMP | Sun Jul 8, 2018 | Heavy hit | Bruce Haight |
| YOUDONTKNOWJACK | Thu Jan 5, 2017 | *Put-down to an ignorant person | Ed Sessa |