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 50,868 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMOSALONZOSTAGG | Thu Nov 23, 2000 | Innovative Chicago football coach | Louis Hildebrand |
| AMPLEST | Thu Sep 16, 2004 | Most plentiful | Paula Gamache |
| BEBOPS | Fri Jan 6, 2012 | Gets into Monk music | David Steinberg |
| BMXERS | Sun Sep 22, 2024 | Olympians on stunt bikes, informally | Jeremy Newton and Tracy Gray |
| CHEESEDANISH | Mon Jan 31, 2000 | Breakfast treat | Peter Gordon |
| COFFEERUSH | Sat Oct 3, 2015 | Morning buzz, maybe | Barry C. Silk |
| DETENTION | Fri May 19, 2017 | Class clown's comeuppance | Matthew Sewell |
| DIDIASK | Sat Aug 24, 2024 | Snarky reply to some unsolicited advice | Ryan McCarty |
| DIRECTLINK | Sat Jan 8, 2005 | Nonstop connection | David Levinson Wilk |
| DOPING | Sun Dec 7, 2008 | Olympics no-no | Jim Page |
| FINELETTERING | Fri May 13, 1994 | Calligraphy | Randolph Ross |
| GANGLIEST | Sun Mar 7, 1999 | Most awkward | Randolph Ross |
| GROWLS | Wed Dec 8, 2021 | Speaks brusquely | Philip Koski |
| HAIRTRAP | Sat Aug 16, 2025 | Shower drain protector | Byron Walden |
| HELENABONHAMCARTER | Sun Feb 15, 2004 | Actress whose great-grandfather was a British P.M. | Derrick Niederman |
| HELPFUL | Tue May 8, 2018 | Lending a hand | Ori Brian |
| HERRS | Thu Sep 26, 1996 | Misters, abroad | M. Gaffney |
| INANIMATEOBJECT | Fri Sep 23, 2016 | It has no life | Andrew Zhou |
| LOXES | Sun Jul 25, 1999 | Smoked delicacies | Charles M. Deber |
| LUDICROUS | Wed Feb 11, 2015 | *"Chicken-n-Beer" rapper, to an overzealous copy editor? | Will Treece |
| MAKEARESOLUTION | Fri Sep 21, 2007 | Determine | Paula Gamache |
| MAKESALIST | Sun Apr 26, 2020 | What Santa does before Christmas | Royce Ferguson |
| MINUETS | Fri Feb 27, 2015 | Dances in 3/4 time | Julian Lim |
| POTTERYWHEELS | Sun Nov 2, 2025 | Ceramicists' devices | Rafael Musa |
| PREDICTABLE | Fri Feb 7, 2025 | Like the ending of a typical rom-com | Kelly Morenus |
| PULPIT | Sun Jun 3, 2007 | Sermon site | Kelsey Blakley |
| PUMPKINCOACH | Mon Apr 3, 2017 | Cinderella's carriage | Agnes Davidson and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| REDRAG | Sun Oct 30, 2005 | Provocation, metaphorically | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| REPUBLICAN | Thu Feb 11, 2010 | See 62-Down | Peter A. Collins |
| ROSAR | Sun Jan 9, 2005 | Buddy of 1940's baseball | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SEASCALLOP | Fri Apr 11, 2025 | Creature with over 200 tiny eyes along its shell | Jesse Guzman |
| STATUTORY | Sat Jan 21, 2006 | Legally punishable | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| STOPFORBREATH | Sun Oct 7, 2001 | Garrote? | Patrick Berry |
| TELLNOTALES | Sun Oct 14, 2012 | What dead men are said to do | Todd Gross |
| TERNARY | Fri Feb 16, 2007 | Threefold | Charles Barasch |
| THINNEST | Sun Oct 4, 2020 | Like 0.5-millimeter lead, among popular mechanical pencil options | Sam Ezersky |
| TICKBIRD | Tue Sep 5, 2023 | "Hitchhiker" whose warning cries help a 31-Down avoid poachers | Alan Siegel |
| TURFTOE | Sat Mar 1, 2025 | Familiar injury in football and soccer | Ryan Judge |
| WITCHERY | Sun Jul 15, 2001 | Spelling? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| XRAYTECHS | Sat Mar 11, 2023 | Ones getting under your skin? | Tom Pepper |