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 50,685 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AERIALRECON | Thu Dec 27, 2018 | Drone's job | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| ARTTHERAPY | Sat Apr 21, 2007 | Psychiatric discipline pioneered by Margaret Naumburg | Byron Walden |
| ASTART | Fri Apr 8, 1994 | Suddenly | David A. Rosen |
| ATOMICBOMBS | Sat Dec 23, 2006 | Couple in the news in 1945 | Myles Callum |
| AUDITIONED | Sat Nov 11, 1995 | Tried out | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| BOOKONCD | Sat Apr 27, 2024 | Reading for those who'd rather not read | Rich Norris |
| BRILLOS | Sat Aug 1, 2015 | Some kitchen pads | Kameron Austin Collins |
| CHECHENREPUBLIC | Sun Nov 8, 2015 | Land in the Caucasus | Tracy Gray |
| CUTMEN | Sun Sep 3, 2023 | Medical attendants at boxing matches | Dylan Schiff |
| DARNGOOD | Sat Oct 15, 2005 | Better than O.K. | Paula Gamache |
| DOITYOURSELFER | Tue Oct 17, 2000 | One who's handy around the house | Peter Gordon |
| EUREKACA | Thu Oct 8, 1998 | 95501 | Alan Arbesfeld |
| FIVESECONDRULE | Wed Aug 31, 2022 | Dubious food-eating guideline ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues | Joe Deeney |
| FLOWERGIRLS | Wed Jan 13, 2010 | Certain wedding participants ... or a hint to 17-, 28- and 46-Across? | Kevan Choset |
| FUELOILS | Sat Jul 9, 2005 | Coal substitutes | Patrick Berry |
| GOSOX | Mon Jan 15, 2018 | Shout at Fenway Park | Agnes Davidson and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| GUTSIER | Sat May 2, 2020 | Showing more nerve | Paolo Pasco |
| HUGECONTROVERSY | Sat Apr 7, 2007 | Cause of deep division | Michael Shteyman |
| INANINSTANT | Thu Apr 16, 2020 | Faster than you can say Jack Robinson | Alan Arbesfeld |
| KASICH | Wed Sep 9, 2020 | Former Ohio governor John | Jakob Weisblat |
| KNEWTOOMUCH | Mon Jun 26, 2006 | "The Man Who " (1956) | Randy Sowell |
| LIESDOWN | Fri Nov 29, 2013 | Rests | Ned White |
| LOOKEDON | Sun Sep 30, 2007 | Observed | Kelsey Blakley |
| MOVEMENT | Fri Apr 11, 2008 | Progress in negotiations | Manny Nosowsky |
| NOKOMIS | Sat Aug 10, 2013 | Hiawatha's grandmother in "The Song of Hiawatha" | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| NOSHESON | Fri May 2, 2025 | Makes a snack of | Robyn Weintraub |
| OFFDAYS | Thu Apr 1, 1999 | Times when you're not at your peak | Kelly Clark |
| OHENRYTWIST | Tue May 31, 2016 | Surprise ending, as in "The Gift of the Magi" | Sarah Keller |
| OVERHEAR | Tue May 10, 1994 | Make out at a party? | David Ellis Dickerson |
| RELIESUPON | Sun Jan 7, 2018 | Trusts | David Steinberg |
| RENUNCIATION | Thu Sep 6, 2018 | Formal rejection | Jeff Chen |
| REPAGE | Sun Mar 3, 2019 | Beep again | Tony Orbach and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| SCAMPERAWAY | Sat Dec 12, 2015 | Make a squirrellike exit | Byron Walden |
| SEEINGDOUBLE | Wed May 9, 2018 | Experiencing a vision problem | Jeff Chen |
| SOLVABLE | Fri May 18, 2018 | Like this puzzle, we hope | Ryan McCarty |
| SOUNDCHECKS | Tue Aug 22, 2023 | Royalties for any musician? | Jay Silverman |
| TANGENTLINES | Tue Apr 29, 2025 | Figures that are straight approximations of curves, in geometry | Gene Louise De Vera |
| UNGUENTS | Wed Dec 13, 2000 | Salves | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| UNHYGIENIC | Mon Sep 5, 2022 | Not sanitary | Adam Simpson |
| WHARFRATS | Fri Jan 4, 2008 | Pilferers from ships and port warehouses | Raymond C. Young |