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 50,634 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BABOOS | Sun Jan 29, 1995 | Hindu gentlemen | Bryant White |
| BADMOODS | Wed May 26, 2010 | Peevish states | Anna Shechtman |
| BECAUSEISAIDSO | Wed Feb 3, 2010 | Reply to the question in 13- and 57-Down | Kristian House |
| BILLSTHECLIENT | Sun Nov 22, 1998 | He has a lawyer | Nelson Hardy |
| BINGOCARD | Sat Nov 8, 2025 | Accessory with a grid of numbers | Ryan Judge |
| BOXSTERS | Sat Nov 30, 2019 | Porsche two-seaters | Joe Deeney |
| BRONZEMEDALLIST | Sat Jul 22, 2006 | Brit who gets an award for showing? | Robert H. Wolfe |
| BULLFIGHTER | Mon Oct 18, 2004 | Waver of a red cape | Steve Kahn |
| COALITION | Sat Oct 20, 2001 | Diplomats' success | Patrick Berry |
| COURTSUMMONS | Mon May 2, 2005 | Citation | Tyler Hinman |
| CRUDITY | Tue Apr 24, 2018 | Primitiveness | Peter Gordon |
| DONTTAKETHEBAIT | Wed May 31, 2017 | Warning for easily provoked types ... or for the answers to the six starred clues? | Jacob Stulberg |
| ENCELADUS | Sun Jan 1, 2023 | Moon of Saturn found to have a potentially habitable ocean | Adam Wagner, Michael Lieberman and Rafael Musa |
| FIELDJUDGE | Sun Apr 14, 2002 | Football official | David J. Kahn |
| GENERATIONGAP | Fri Oct 22, 2021 | What might be found between X and Z? | Robyn Weintraub |
| HASITONESOWNWAY | Wed Mar 27, 2013 | Ignores others' advice | David J. Kahn |
| HAZARDING | Fri Jul 22, 2011 | Gambling | Todd McClary |
| LADYL | Sat Mar 17, 2007 | Sophia Loren/Paul Newman comedy, 1965 | John Farmer |
| LECARS | Thu Jan 27, 2022 | 1970s-'80s Renaults | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| MAIO | Sun Nov 30, 1997 | Spring time in Lisbon | Charles Deber |
| MEGCABOT | Tue Jan 3, 2023 | "The Princess Diaries" author | Margaret Seikel |
| MORELLO | Sun May 8, 1994 | Sour cherry | Ralph G. Beaman |
| PAGEA | Thu Oct 24, 2013 | ___-day calendar | Peter A. Collins |
| PENNYDREADFULS | Wed Jul 17, 2019 | Books that Victorians [circled letters] for cheap | Ada Nicolle |
| PINO | Sat Dec 18, 1993 | Spanish conifer | Manny Nosowsky |
| POOLER | Tue Apr 10, 2012 | Car ___ | Gregory Philip Butler |
| RACKOFLAMB | Fri Feb 17, 2017 | Its ribs stick out | David Steinberg |
| REVERENDSPOONER | Mon Nov 13, 2000 | Famous 52-Across | Peter Gordon |
| ROTISSERIEOVENS | Fri Aug 13, 2021 | Revolutionary inventions in the cooking world? | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
| SHAGGYDOG | Sat Jul 31, 2004 | Kind of story | Byron Walden |
| SHEIKDOM | Mon Oct 16, 1995 | Arab land | Bernice Gordon |
| SHOESHOP | Thu Aug 6, 2020 | Sole proprietorship? | Derek Allen and Jeff Chen |
| SNOWFLAKE | Tue Feb 13, 2001 | Six-sided figure | Michael Shteyman |
| STARCROSSD | Fri Jul 26, 2002 | Like Romeo and Juliet, to Shakespeare | Manny Nosowsky |
| STOREADS | Thu Nov 16, 2023 | Some promotional material | Paolo Pasco |
| THEFAVORITE | Sat May 2, 2009 | One that bets are on | Peter A. Collins |
| VELVETELVIS | Fri Nov 1, 2013 | Classic kitschy wall hanging | Brad Wilber |
| WELLILLBEDAMNED | Wed Jul 10, 2013 | "Really!" | Ed Sessa |
| WHINIER | Sat Mar 16, 2013 | More prone to bellyaches | Julian Lim |
| YMIR | Sat Oct 22, 1994 | Norse giant | Daniel R. Stark |