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 51,028 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADMITTO | Thu Jul 3, 2025 | Come clean about | Adam Wagner |
| ARLOGUTHRIE | Fri Aug 7, 1998 | Woodstock performer, 1969 | Frank Longo |
| BIRDWATCHER | Mon Nov 13, 2000 | One who looks up when someone yells "duck!"? | Peter Gordon |
| BUENOSAIRESARGENTINA | Sun Dec 15, 2024 | Capital on the Río de la Plata | David Kwong |
| BURYTHEHATCHET | Sun Sep 8, 2019 | ... the guy who vows to take his Stetson to the grave | Joe DiPietro |
| CALMDOWN | Mon Feb 11, 2019 | "Chill out!" | Howard Barkin |
| CIRCLEDANCE | Thu Jul 9, 2020 | Hora, for one | Joe Kidd |
| COLORMAN | Tue Mar 14, 1995 | Play-by-play announcer's partner | Bob Klahn |
| DECRIAL | Sun Jun 25, 2006 | Noisy censure | Jim Page |
| DENTIN | Sun Jan 5, 2014 | Major part of a tooth | Alan DerKazarian |
| DOMESTICANIMALS | Fri Jan 13, 2012 | Potential pets | Todd Gross and Doug Peterson |
| FOREIGNMINISTER | Sat Dec 14, 2013 | Part of a French cabinet | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GALADRIEL | Sun Jan 4, 2026 | Elf portrayed by Cate Blanchett in "The Fellowship of the Ring" | Gene Louise De Vera |
| GENERALCOUNSEL | Sun Mar 14, 2004 | Military adviser's other job? | Craig Kasper |
| GENTE | Fri Apr 28, 1995 | People, in Ponce | Rich Norris |
| GILDALIVE | Tue Dec 15, 2015 | 1980 one-woman comedy produced by Lorne Michaels | David Levinson Wilk |
| GOVERNORGENERAL | Fri Apr 14, 2000 | Ottawa official | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GUMLINES | Wed Feb 23, 2022 | Teeth disappear under them | Rose Conlon |
| HAMPTON | Sat Jul 13, 2013 | Jazz legend who turned the Benny Goodman Trio into the Benny Goodman Quartet | Byron Walden |
| IDEALOGUES | Sun Feb 11, 2018 | Inventors' diaries? | Matt Ginsberg |
| ITISON | Sun Apr 5, 2026 | "This. Means. War!" | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| LICENSEPLATE | Tue Aug 21, 2001 | Vanity item, perhaps | Sarah Keller |
| MODELER | Sun Oct 15, 2006 | Hobbyist with toy trains, e.g. | Norma Johnson & Nancy Salomon |
| NECROSED | Fri Jul 30, 2010 | Dead, as tissue | Kevin G. Der |
| NONFACTORS | Fri Oct 4, 2019 | They don't come into play | Matthew Sewell |
| NOUTURNS | Fri Oct 1, 2004 | Freeway prohibitions | Bob Peoples |
| OUTOFPLACE | Sun Apr 19, 2026 | How a misfit might feel | Michael Lieberman |
| PEENING | Sat Dec 24, 2005 | Pounding, in a way | Byron Walden |
| PICKUPTHEPACE | Mon Aug 9, 2004 | "Faster!" | M. Francis Vuolo |
| POWEROFTWO | Sun Jan 14, 2024 | Indigo Girls song with the chorus "Adding up the total of a love that's true / Multiply life by the ..." | John Kugelman |
| SEEYOUSOON | Fri Jan 13, 2017 | "Toodles" | Andrew J. Ries |
| SEYFRIED | Sun Oct 3, 2021 | Actress Amanda of 2012's "Les Misérables" | Trenton Charlson |
| SOOTIEST | Thu Sep 21, 2006 | Most like a chimney sweep | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| SUITABLE | Fri May 12, 2017 | Fit | Bill Clinton and Victor Fleming |
| TERNI | Sun May 27, 2018 | Italian city where St. Valentine was born | Andrew Chaikin |
| TERRAN | Sun Jun 25, 2023 | Earthling, in sci-fi | John Westwig |
| THATSASHAME | Fri Aug 7, 2020 | "Too bad" | Tom Pepper |
| TOMAHAWK | Mon Jun 29, 1998 | Hiawatha's weapon | Gregory E. Paul |
| TRUSTEES | Sat Feb 10, 1996 | Fiduciaries | John R. Conrad |
| WHATDIMISS | Fri May 29, 2026 | "Can you catch me up?" | Hemant Mehta |