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 50,644 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCEPTEDUSAGE | Sun Jul 18, 2010 | 234, as of July 4, 2010? | Robert W. Harris |
| ALLGUSSIEDUP | Sat Jan 24, 2009 | Dressed to the nines | Mark Diehl |
| ATIEMPO | Fri Jan 12, 2018 | On time, in Tijuana | Erik Agard |
| ATOMICMASS | Wed Jul 23, 2025 | Figure that roughly equals protons plus neutrons | Joseph Gangi |
| ATQUE | Sat Aug 3, 1996 | And, to Caesar | A. D. Cover |
| AYINS | Sat Sep 4, 1999 | 16th letters in Hebrew | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| CERTAINTY | Sun Sep 27, 2015 | Conviction ... or what's almost required for a conviction | Tom McCoy |
| COLOURS | Sun May 31, 2015 | Grey and ochre | Tom McCoy |
| CUTSUP | Thu May 22, 2008 | Misbehaves | Richard Silvestri |
| DELIVERYROOM | Sun Dec 22, 2019 | Labor day setting? | Laura Taylor Kinnel |
| EASYOFF | Mon Sep 1, 1997 | Popular oven cleaner | Gregory E. Paul |
| EDMS | Sat Jan 28, 2006 | Teachers' degs. | Dana Motley |
| ENDOFDISCUSSION | Thu Mar 22, 2007 | "Case closed!" | Karen M. Tracey |
| EXODERM | Thu Jan 3, 2019 | Outer layer of a membrane | Timothy Polin |
| FACECREAMS | Sun Jul 31, 2005 | Some cosmetics | Mark Feldman |
| FATHERS | Sat Feb 6, 2010 | Confession receivers | Frederick J. Healy |
| FEELING | Tue Oct 6, 2015 | See 6-Down | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| GORIEST | Fri May 13, 1994 | Bloody to the max | Randolph Ross |
| HEREXCELLENCY | Sun Aug 10, 2014 | *What to call a female ambassador [the Johnsons] | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| HORIZONTALLY | Sun Jan 13, 2013 | See 119-Across | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| HOTCAKES | Wed Sep 1, 1999 | Fast sellers | Alan Arbesfeld |
| JOEYFATONE | Mon Jun 16, 2025 | 'N Sync bandmate of Justin Timberlake | Jill Rafaloff and Michelle Sontarp |
| KAMALAHARRIS | Sat Nov 20, 2021 | Joint winner of Time's Person of the Year for 2020 | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| KATHARINEGRAHAM | Wed Dec 31, 2003 | Post master, once? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| LECONTE | Sun Aug 1, 1999 | French poet ___ de Lisle | Randolph Ross |
| LINEDOUT | Sun Oct 27, 2024 | Nearly succeeded ... but there's a catch! | Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen |
| OTTOVI | Sun Dec 18, 2016 | Old German ruler nicknamed "the Short" | Derrick Niederman |
| OVIPOSIT | Sat Sep 7, 1996 | Lay eggs, as a field cricket | B. White |
| PIMPLY | Thu Oct 9, 2008 | Broken out, in a way | Doug Peterson |
| POLITICALDNA | Fri Feb 10, 2012 | Party makeup? | Barry C. Silk and Brad Wilber |
| POOLHALLS | Sat Oct 12, 2013 | Sites for shark sightings | John Farmer |
| RICEKRISPIESBOX | Mon Dec 16, 2019 | *Container for a Kellogg's cereal | Howard Barkin and Kevin Christian |
| SHERMANHEMSLEY | Thu Jan 2, 1997 | "The Jeffersons" co-star | M. Gaffney |
| SHOPSTEWARD | Tue Aug 7, 2018 | Union representative | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| SMOKEYBEARS | Sun Jul 18, 1999 | What CBers watch for | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| SMOOTHOPERATOR | Sun Dec 1, 2024 | *1984 Sade hit | John Lieb |
| SNUBBED | Tue Apr 8, 2003 | Gave the cold shoulder | Verna Suit |
| TBOONEPICKENS | Thu Jul 5, 2007 | *Founder of Mesa Petroleum | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| UNCAREDFOR | Fri Apr 26, 2002 | Neglected | Manny Nosowsky |
| VENTILATE | Mon Sep 20, 2004 | Open the windows in | A. J. Santora |