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 50,686 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCEDEDTO | Sun Oct 26, 2008 | Let win | Daniel C. Bryant |
| ASHBINS | Sat Mar 21, 2009 | Garbage collectors | Robert H. Wolfe |
| BABYFOOD | Sun Jul 17, 2005 | It may be dribbled | David J. Kahn |
| BIGHORN | Fri Jan 26, 2007 | Yellowstone feeder | Mike Nothnagel |
| BONBONS | Thu Apr 7, 2011 | Chocolate treats | Henry Hook |
| CELERYSEED | Sat Sep 6, 2014 | Ingredient in many salad dressings | James Mulhern |
| CHID | Thu Dec 13, 2001 | Reproached, uncommonly | Manny Nosowsky |
| CHORALGROUP | Tue Jul 23, 2024 | What the ends of 17-, 31-, 37- and 48-Across are, collectively | Sarah Sinclair and Amie Walker |
| EMERYBOARD | Sat Sep 27, 2025 | Digital file? | Adrian Johnson and Christina Iverson |
| ENVOYS | Wed Nov 7, 2007 | Embassy figures | Richard Chisholm |
| EVENTIDES | Fri Sep 27, 1996 | Nights of old | B. Sefick |
| EXHAUSTFAN | Fri Jan 20, 2017 | Aid in clearing the air | Angela Olson Halsted |
| FIJIDOLLAR | Tue Sep 6, 2022 | South Pacific currency | Trenton Charlson |
| FOOTWEAR | Tue Jan 18, 2000 | Heels and loafers | Nancy Salomon |
| HALFSEEN | Tue Jan 20, 2009 | Not fully noticed | Tim Wescott |
| INONEACT | Thu Sep 20, 2018 | Without intermission | Sam Ezersky |
| INSOLUBLE | Thu Oct 14, 2004 | Like chalk in water | Mike Sikowitz |
| ISTHATYOURFINALANSWER | Sun Sep 3, 2000 | Last question in this puzzle | David J. Kahn |
| JENNER | Tue Jul 19, 2011 | Bruce who won the 1976 Olympic decathlon | Mark Feldman |
| LEATHERY | Wed Jul 10, 2002 | Coriaceious | Richard Silvestri |
| LENSHOOD | Sat Jul 7, 2012 | Preventer of photographic glare | Tim Croce |
| LOBATE | Sun Nov 26, 2000 | Like some oak leaves | Patrick Berry |
| MAUDES | Sat Oct 25, 1997 | More than 120 1970's sitcom episodes | John Scott Marrone |
| MISRULES | Sun Nov 15, 1998 | Abuses the throne | Robert H. Wolfe |
| OBV | Sun Nov 20, 2011 | Front of a coin: Abbr. | Trip Payne |
| PASSEDTHETIME | Fri Jun 24, 2016 | Idled | Patrick Berry |
| PEARLSBEFORESWINE | Sun Oct 14, 2012 | Comic strip with the characters Rat and Pig | Todd Gross |
| PORTCULLIS | Thu Jul 15, 1999 | Defensive grating in medieval castles | Zack Butler |
| RATIONSOUT | Wed Jul 27, 2011 | Distributes stingily | Bill Thompson |
| REALDEAL | Sun Mar 29, 2020 | Someone with all the desired qualities | Ricky Cruz |
| REARSUP | Sat Mar 30, 2024 | Rises in anger, maybe | Blake Slonecker |
| STEPUPTRANSFORMER | Sun Sep 22, 2019 | Voltage-increasing electrical device | Tracy Gray |
| STOPINTHENAMEOFLOVE | Sun Feb 5, 1995 | CHALTUPID | Frank A. Longo |
| STUBBORNBEAST | Sun Oct 22, 2000 | Change a letter in 46-Across to spell... | Henry Hook |
| THEPIANOMAN | Fri Oct 8, 1999 | Billy Joel, self-referentially | Nancy Salomon |
| TRAMPSHIP | Fri Oct 27, 2000 | Cargo liner for hire | Manny Nosowsky |
| TWOL | Mon Dec 3, 2012 | Like Nash's llama vis-à-vis lama | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| UNLEASHED | Fri Sep 12, 2003 | Let loose | Sherry O. Blackard |
| WOODGRAIN | Mon Jun 3, 2024 | *Texture in a cross section of timber | Alana Platt |
| WRINGOUT | Thu Sep 26, 2019 | Dry, as a washcloth | Doug Peterson |