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 51,140 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABHORRENTLY | Sat Mar 14, 1998 | In an awful way | Ed Pegg Jr. |
| BALDIE | Mon Jun 24, 2019 | Person with a chrome dome | Ross Trudeau |
| BRAINPOWER | Sat Jul 26, 2025 | Smarts | Adam Levav |
| BRINGUPASTICKYSUBJECT | Sun Oct 11, 1998 | Mother a pasty vassal? | Nancy Salomon, Marjorie Richter and Kelly Clark |
| BUSHVGORE | Sat Dec 5, 2009 | 2000 Supreme Court case hinging on the 14th Amendment | Brad Wilber |
| CABINETMINISTER | Tue Mar 21, 2017 | High-ranking British Parliament member | George Barany and John D. Child |
| CANDYCOAT | Sat Jul 14, 2018 | Make more palatable | Kameron Austin Collins |
| CHELAE | Fri Jan 27, 1995 | Pincers | Chuck Deodene |
| DECLAIMED | Wed Jun 24, 1998 | Renounced? | Richard Silvestri |
| EMIGRATES | Thu Aug 15, 1996 | Settles elsewhere | S. B. Whitten |
| FILMNOMINATION | Mon Dec 25, 2006 | Motion picture academy honor | Adam G. Perl |
| FILTHYRICH | Mon Mar 24, 2014 | Not just well-off | Tom Pepper |
| FORMULAE | Tue May 22, 2001 | Chemists' knowledge | John D. Leavy |
| FORTLAUDERDALE | Sun Sep 8, 2019 | ... the guy who can't stop bragging about Bragg | Joe DiPietro |
| GAYRODEO | Thu Sep 3, 2020 | Sporting event profiled in the 2014 documentary "Queens & Cowboys" | Sid Sivakumar |
| GEOMETRYCLASSES | Fri Nov 24, 2000 | Where to find compass directions? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GOESATIT | Sun Feb 15, 1998 | Argues vehemently | Rich Norris |
| GRINAT | Sun May 17, 2026 | Direct a smile toward | Derrick Niederman |
| LAYANCHOR | Tue Sep 12, 2006 | Secure oneself in port | James R. Leeds |
| LEGALISSUE | Fri Mar 4, 2022 | Basis for a case | David Distenfeld |
| LIKEASORETHUMB | Sun Apr 28, 2019 | LAST words? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| LILFOLKS | Sun Nov 23, 1997 | Predecessor of the strip | Christopher Hurt and Derek Tague |
| LYCO | Sun Dec 17, 1995 | Wolf: Prefix | Dean Niles |
| MINGLES | Tue Jul 2, 2019 | Is sociable at a party | Peter Gordon |
| NOTGUILTY | Fri Jan 26, 2024 | Exonerating words | Sarah Sinclair and Rafael Musa |
| NUCLEARPACT | Sat Dec 21, 2024 | SALT, but not PEPPER | Barbara Lin and Lewis Rothlein |
| ROOFTOPGARDEN | Wed Nov 21, 2001 | Urban luxury | M. Francis Vuolo |
| SEXYBACK | Sat Dec 24, 2016 | 2006 Justin Timberlake #1 hit | David Steinberg |
| SKYLAR | Tue Oct 9, 2018 | Actor Astin of "Pitch Perfect" | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| SONNETEERS | Sat Apr 11, 2015 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay, notably | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| SORRYISPILLEDIT | Thu Jul 29, 1999 | Poem by 39-Across about breakfast in bed | David J. Kahn |
| SQCM | Thu Jan 12, 2012 | Small area meas. | Gareth Bain |
| STANDINGROOM | Tue Jun 21, 2005 | Provision for late-arriving spectators | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| STEELJAWS | Sat Nov 27, 2010 | Features of some bear traps | Xan Vongsathorn |
| SUMMEROLYMPICS | Tue Jul 16, 1996 | 1996 event | R. Hamel |
| TOPLESSDANCERS | Fri Oct 9, 2015 | Ones working near the poles? | David Steinberg |
| TWELVEDOZEN | Thu Sep 26, 2013 | A gross | Tom Pepper and Victor Barocas |
| USWNT | Tue Jun 9, 2026 | Squad captained by Lindsey Horan to win Olympic gold in '24, for short | Rebecca Goldstein |
| WALKURE | Thu Sep 23, 2010 | "Die ___" (second part of the 17-Across) | David J. Kahn |
| WILDPITCHES | Thu Feb 29, 2024 | Mistakes in baseball ... or what 18-, 24-, 34- and 51-Across might produce? | Esha Datta |