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 51,115 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIMSTO | Mon Jun 13, 2022 | Hopes one will | Hoang-Kim Vu and Jessica Zetzman |
| ALLTIMERECORDS | Sun Jun 9, 2013 | What 64-Across holds in the three legs of 46-Down | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BENDANEAR | Mon Apr 24, 2000 | Go on and on with someone | Peter Gordon |
| BOKEH | Sat Jan 6, 2024 | Out-of-focus effect in photography, from the Japanese for "blur" | Ben Tolkin and Julian Xiao |
| BRAINAGE | Fri Jun 29, 2007 | Nintendo game with exercises for mental acuity | Mike Nothnagel |
| BREAKITUPYOUTWO | Tue Apr 18, 2023 | Command that could be given to the title characters in 17-, 26- and 45-Across? | Kiran Pandey |
| CAMPAIGNER | Thu Oct 25, 2001 | Person on a trail | John Scott Marrone |
| CHOPPED | Sat Apr 30, 2022 | Did some prep work in the kitchen | Joe DiPietro |
| DEDICATEE | Sun Jan 16, 2000 | Name in the front of a book | Fred Piscop |
| DOWNMARKETS | Sat Oct 9, 1999 | Where bears fare well | Manny Nosowsky |
| DUTIABLE | Fri Nov 3, 2006 | Subject to customs | Manny Nosowsky |
| ESCHEATOR | Sat Feb 22, 1997 | Legal officer in charge of reversions of land | A. J. Santora |
| EVENNUMBERS | Wed Jul 4, 2018 | Identifications on left-hand pages, traditionally [the Bible] | Freddie Cheng |
| EXACTER | Thu May 7, 1998 | More accurate | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| FEDEXCUP | Thu May 2, 2024 | Championship trophy for the P.G.A. Tour | Brandon Koppy |
| FURNISHES | Thu Aug 15, 1996 | Makes livable, as a house | S. B. Whitten |
| GETTERS | Sun May 14, 1995 | Gofers | Richard Silvestri |
| HANDWORKERS | Sat Jan 13, 1996 | Craftsmen | J. Page |
| HAPPILY | Sat Jan 15, 2011 | One way to be married | Barry C. Silk |
| INDOCHINA | Thu May 8, 2008 | Red River area | Harvey Estes |
| INTERBANK | Fri Jan 7, 2005 | Like wire transfers | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| INTERMINGLED | Sun Aug 2, 2015 | Like 0's and 1's in binary numbers | Matt Ginsberg |
| LAGGER | Sun May 24, 2015 | One who's behind | Kevin G. Der |
| LEARNTHEROPES | Tue Jun 2, 2015 | Pick up basics | Bruce Haight |
| LITON | Sat Apr 26, 2025 | Discovered unexpectedly | Sarah Sinclair and Rafael Musa |
| LOVEIT | Sun Aug 2, 2026 | "Fabulous!" | Ralph Sharaga and Doug Peterson |
| MANCHU | Sun May 27, 2018 | Fu ___ | Andrew Chaikin |
| NATURALCAUSES | Sun Dec 11, 2011 | There's no foul play when one passes by these | Timothy Polin |
| OLBLUEEYES | Sun Jun 27, 2021 | Sinatra, to fans | Ross Trudeau and Lindsey Hobbs |
| OPIETAYLOR | Sun Feb 28, 2021 | '60s TV kid | Brad Wiegmann |
| ORNATENESS | Sat Aug 23, 2008 | Opposite of simplicity | Natan Last |
| PLEUT | Thu Apr 26, 2012 | Il ___ (it rains: Fr.) | Julian Lim |
| POPUPTOASTER | Thu Jun 13, 2013 | *What makes bread rise? | David Steinberg |
| PUREBLOOD | Sat Jan 14, 2012 | All in the family? | Mark Diehl |
| RELEASEE | Fri Jan 5, 1996 | Freed hostage | R. Ross |
| SPEEDSKATES | Sat Sep 10, 2022 | Sporting blades | Kameron Austin Collins |
| STANDINGORDERS | Mon Jan 25, 1999 | Permanent military procedures | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| SUNDRY | Thu Oct 2, 2014 | Miscellaneous | David Woolf |
| TIGHTDRESS | Sun Nov 23, 2008 | What Ramona wore in a 1966 Chuck Berry song | David J. Kahn |
| TOPTENLISTS | Sun Jun 28, 2020 | Some clickbait articles | Jon Schneider and Anderson Wang |