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 51,174 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANDEDANTEATERS | Fri Jan 31, 2014 | Numbats | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| BIOPSY | Tue Aug 20, 2024 | Tissue sample test | Sam Buchbinder |
| BOKCHOY | Fri Nov 27, 2015 | Chinese cabbage | Peter Wentz |
| BROGRAMMER | Sat Dec 1, 2018 | Fratty Silicon Valley techie, stereotypically | Ryan McCarty |
| COLDCOCK | Sun Jul 31, 2016 | Knock unconscious | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| CRENELATE | Sat May 23, 2009 | Furnish with battlements, as a castle | Dave Tuller |
| CRYBABIES | Fri Oct 3, 2025 | Ones who are quick to complain | Rebecca Goldstein and Rafael Musa |
| DAAAAABEARS | Wed Oct 27, 2021 | Classic line from the Superfans sketch on "S.N.L." | Johanna Fenimore |
| DJBOOTHS | Tue Sep 10, 2024 | Workspaces for some nightclub performers | Daniel Bodily |
| DUTCHTREAT | Mon Apr 8, 1996 | Separate-checks occasion | S. B. Whitten |
| EMIN | Sun Aug 7, 2011 | Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4: Abbr. | Tony Orbach and Janie Smulyan |
| GENITOR | Thu Feb 3, 1994 | Father | A.J. Santora |
| GEORGEJEFFERSON | Sun Sep 1, 2013 | Neighbor of Archie Bunker | John Farmer |
| HALFSOLE | Thu Feb 7, 2002 | Worn part of a shoe | Patrick Berry |
| IOWACAUCUS | Sat Nov 21, 2020 | Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one | Sam Ezersky |
| ITSFUTILE | Thu Sep 19, 2024 | "There's no point" | Josh Goodman |
| JOINEDATTHEHIP | Thu Jul 22, 2021 | Inseparable ... or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle? | John Guzzetta |
| LANDRU | Sun May 6, 2007 | French Bluebeard | Charles M. Deber |
| MIZZENS | Sun Aug 22, 2021 | Aftmost masts on ships | Stephen McCarthy |
| MORCEAU | Fri Jul 22, 1994 | Passage of poetry or music | Raymond Hamel |
| MOVEITALONG | Tue Apr 8, 2014 | "That's enough!," to an assembly line worker? | Ian Livengood |
| ORPHANBLACK | Sat Feb 23, 2019 | Hit 2010s sci-fi series in which a single actress plays multiple clones | Sam Ezersky |
| PARTYLINES | Sat Feb 12, 2000 | They get people talking | Dave Tuller |
| PORKYS | Tue Oct 17, 2017 | Raunchy 1981 comedy with two sequels | Jeff Chen |
| POTOROO | Fri Jun 5, 2026 | Small marsupial whose name is spelled using only the letters of TROP | Kelly Morenus |
| RESULTSORIENTED | Sat Jun 9, 2018 | Practical-minded | Roland Huget |
| RICEANDBEANS | Wed Feb 20, 2019 | *Latin American side dish that combines two food staples | Byron Walden |
| SITIDLE | Wed Jan 16, 2019 | Not get used | Bruce Haight |
| SNATCHANDGRAB | Thu Mar 31, 2016 | Double take? | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| STRATEGIC | Mon Feb 4, 2013 | The "S" in SALT | Randall J. Hartman |
| STRUCKANOTE | Fri Jan 25, 2013 | Hit home | Joe DiPietro |
| STUDIERS | Sun Aug 24, 2003 | Diligent pupils | Patrick Berry |
| SYNCHS | Sun Sep 12, 1999 | Harmonizes, briefly | Nancy Scandrett Ross |
| TACHE | Sun Dec 3, 1995 | Old-fashioned buckle | Martin Schneider |
| TECHNICALITY | Sat Dec 3, 2005 | Specialist's point | Dana Motley |
| TESLACARS | Fri Nov 17, 2017 | They get charged for trips | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| UGLYTRUTHS | Wed Oct 12, 2022 | Unpleasant realities | Drew Schmenner |
| UNDREAMEDOF | Thu Oct 10, 2013 | Inconceivable | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| VAPORTRAILS | Mon Sep 24, 2012 | What airplanes leave in the sky ... or what 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across have? | John Dunn |
| YOUONLYLIVEONCE | Sat Sep 22, 2007 | Daredevil's creed | Mark Diehl |