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 50,525 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTIVEROSTER | Sun Sep 13, 2015 | Players eligible to suit up | Joe DiPietro |
| ALLMYLOVE | Mon Dec 2, 1996 | Complimentary close | D. L. Wilk |
| AMYLS | Sat Jan 13, 1996 | Organic radicals | J. Page |
| ANABEL | Tue Jan 15, 2013 | Women's tennis champ Medina | Peter A. Collins |
| ARADO | Sun May 17, 1998 | Southwest land | David J. Kahn and Hillary B. Kahn |
| ASGOD | Fri Apr 19, 1996 | "___is my witness..." | A. Micci |
| BLANKETOFSNOW | Wed Jun 17, 2020 | Winter whiteness | Daniel Raymon |
| BLANKLOOKS | Thu Dec 12, 1996 | Strangers may get them | J. R. Conrad |
| DRYMOUTH | Sat Oct 8, 2022 | Sign of anxiety | Kyle Dolan |
| ENVIRON | Thu Aug 1, 2013 | Form a ring around | Timothy Polin |
| EXISTENTIALISTS | Sat Dec 19, 1998 | Karl Jaspers and others | Frank Longo and Dave Tuller |
| FEELING | Tue Oct 6, 2015 | See 6-Down | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| GASTRITIS | Sun Oct 22, 1995 | Stomach ailment | Matt Gaffney |
| GETACHARGEOUTOF | Sat Nov 4, 2006 | Relish | Rich Norris |
| GETSONESWAY | Mon Oct 3, 2011 | Wins a dispute | Stanley Newman |
| GINKS | Sat Jul 16, 2005 | Eccentric guys, slangily | Michael Shteyman |
| GUSTAF | Sun Apr 3, 2022 | Carl XVI ___ (king of Sweden beginning in 1973) | Byron Walden |
| HAWES | Thu Oct 5, 1995 | Adventure story writer Charles | Christopher Page |
| HEAVENABOVE | Thu Jan 30, 1997 | St. James Place | D. Motley |
| IKNEWITALLALONG | Sat Jun 7, 2025 | "You didn't fool me" | Blake Slonecker |
| INSISTSUPON | Tue Jun 20, 2017 | Demands | Jason Flinn |
| LAMBCHOP | Tue May 13, 2025 | Bone-in cut whose name became an endearment | Joe Rodini |
| LIGHTBEER | Fri Feb 13, 1998 | It's less filling | Jim Page |
| LIMEHOUSE | Sun Mar 5, 2000 | "___ Blues" (1924 Paul Whiteman hit) | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| MARJORIE | Sat Dec 20, 2003 | Writer Rawlings | Myles Callum |
| MITRES | Thu Dec 4, 1997 | British bishops' headdresses | Eileen Lexau |
| NOTIMETODIE | Fri Nov 29, 2024 | Bond theme song that won an Academy Award in 2022 | Willa Angel Chen Miller and Matthew Stock |
| OILCITY | Wed Aug 11, 2021 | Pennsylvania petroleum center, once | Joe DiPietro |
| ONONESGUARD | Thu Jan 6, 2005 | Vigilant | Robert H. Wolfe |
| OPERON | Sun Dec 7, 2014 | Coordinated gene cluster | Jeff Chen |
| RUNNINGACCOUNT | Tue Aug 2, 2005 | Easy-to-manage financial record | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SEEDEDTEAMS | Tue Jan 28, 2025 | The 68 participants in the N.C.A.A. March Madness tournament, e.g. | Dan Margolis |
| SIMMONS | Thu May 2, 2002 | Beautyrest company | Dave and Diane Epperson |
| SKIPARKA | Sat Aug 16, 2008 | Protection for someone on the run? | Byron Walden |
| SOVEREIGNSTATE | Thu Dec 5, 2019 | Any member of the United Nations | Neville Fogarty |
| STABATMATER | Sat Aug 13, 2016 | Hymn set to music by Vivaldi and Haydn | Patrick Berry |
| SUBHEAD | Sun Jun 13, 1999 | Column feature | Rich Norris |
| SWEATOFONESBROW | Tue Dec 12, 2000 | Hard labor | Nick Grivas |
| TURNUPTHEVOLUME | Fri Feb 3, 2006 | Make it louder | Manny Nosowsky |
| WHYISIT | Sun Mar 2, 2025 | Line of questioning? | Adam Wagner |