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 50,248 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGATELLE | Sun Aug 30, 2015 | Trifle | Lee Taylor |
| BOTTOMOFTHEFIFTH | Sun Jul 24, 2011 | Whiskey bottle dregs? | Kurt Mueller |
| COMPTON | Wed Sep 20, 2006 | City SE of downtown Los Angeles | Joe DiPietro |
| DANICA | Sun Mar 16, 2025 | Auto racer ___ Patrick | Paul Coulter |
| DONEDEALS | Sun Dec 31, 2000 | Signed contracts | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DRAWA | Sun Sep 8, 1996 | ___ blank | R. H. Wolfe |
| ELECTIONSEASON | Thu May 26, 2022 | And know when to run | Jonathan M. Kaye |
| EXHAUSTING | Thu Jun 18, 1998 | Like housework | Alan Arbesfeld |
| FUDGEFACTOR | Sun Aug 13, 2000 | Statistician's margin for error | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| GROPERS | Sun Jun 12, 2005 | Ones proceeding in the dark? | Joe Bower |
| INSECTIVORE | Fri Apr 28, 2023 | One eating a lot of wings | Malaika Handa and Erik Agard |
| KIDSAROUND | Sun Sep 13, 2015 | Joshes | Joe DiPietro |
| LATENIGHTFLIGHT | Tue Dec 28, 1999 | Red-eye | Randall J. Hartman |
| LIONELTRILLING | Sun Jul 1, 2012 | Literary critic who was 65-Across (1905) | Dan Schoenholz |
| MAINACT | Sun Oct 1, 2023 | What an opener precedes | Jeffrey Lease |
| MIDASTOUCH | Mon Nov 30, 2015 | Moneymaking skill ... or, when read as three words, what happens in 17-, 21-, 35-, 45- and 54-Across | Ian Livengood |
| MINTCOINSET | Sat Sep 10, 2022 | Case made for significant change? | Kameron Austin Collins |
| MORALLY | Sat May 7, 2022 | By ethical standards | Rachel Fabi |
| MUSHROOM | Thu Aug 22, 2019 | Grow quickly | Emily Carroll |
| MUSKRAT | Sat Jun 10, 1995 | Louis Armstrong hit "___ Ramble" | Daniel R. Stark |
| NUMBERER | Fri Apr 30, 1999 | Paginator | Pat M. Hugel |
| PAINTBYNUMBER | Fri Oct 18, 2024 | Digital art? | Jesse Cohn |
| PAPERJAM | Tue Apr 13, 2021 | Printing predicament | Michael Lieberman |
| PARISTROUT | Fri Aug 6, 2010 | Pete Dexter novel whose title character is an unrepentant murderer | Patrick Berry |
| PEZIZA | Sat Mar 7, 2015 | Cup-shaped forest fungus | David C. Duncan Dekker |
| PUMPKINEATER | Thu May 2, 1996 | 1964 Anne Bancroft film, with "The" | D. J. Kahn |
| PUPTENTS | Wed Feb 6, 2002 | Soldiers pitch them | Joe DiPietro |
| RELOCKS | Fri Apr 18, 1997 | Bolts over | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SEARAVEN | Fri Apr 13, 2018 | Spiny fish named after a bird | Joe Krozel |
| SELFRELIANT | Mon Jan 2, 2012 | Not needing anyone's help | Paula Gamache |
| SHARKOIL | Mon May 18, 2020 | Controversial cosmetics ingredient | Christina Iverson |
| SUPERFREAK | Sat Nov 9, 2019 | 1981 Rick James hit that starts "She's a very kinky girl" | Neil Padrick Wilson |
| SWATTEAMS | Mon Jul 28, 1997 | Specialized police units | Patrick Jordan |
| SWEETSURRENDER | Tue Aug 15, 2000 | John Denver sang it in 1975 | Nancy Salomon and Sherry O. Blackard |
| THEYSEE | Sat Oct 21, 2000 | Apt anagram for "the eyes" | Bob Klahn |
| TWITTERRANT | Sat Oct 28, 2023 | Certain onslaught on social media | Ryan McCarty |
| UNCI | Sun Mar 29, 2009 | Hook-shaped parts of brains | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| VOTINGSITE | Tue Nov 2, 2004 | Booth, e.g. | Patrick Merrell |
| WHODIDIT | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | Detective's question | Joe DiPietro |
| WINNINGSTREAK | Sun Feb 28, 2021 | Victory in the annual nudist club 1K? | Brad Wiegmann |