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 50,859 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACLUB | Sat May 8, 2004 | "Not with ___ the heart is broken": Emily Dickinson | Bob Peoples |
| AVERSIVE | Sat Jun 26, 1999 | Antipathetical | John Wolting |
| BAGCHECK | Tue Dec 16, 2025 | Last stop before security, often | Jason Reich |
| COMPOUNDW | Tue Jan 28, 2020 | "The wart stops here" sloganeer | Trenton Charlson |
| EASTWARDS | Fri Sep 20, 2002 | Like 1990's NATO expansion | Kevin Hagen |
| EBERTS | Sun Jan 24, 2010 | "Roger ___ Book of Film" | David Kwong and Kevan Choset |
| FACEWASH | Wed Apr 30, 2025 | Bottleful that might 6-Down/32-Down? | Adam Vincent |
| FORGINGAHEAD | Sun May 7, 2000 | Doing counterfeit sculpture? | Patrick D. Berry |
| FREEZEDRIED | Wed May 7, 2003 | Preserved, in a way | Alan Arbesfeld |
| HEMOGLOBIN | Wed Feb 7, 2024 | Substance that makes blood red | Daniel Mauer |
| HOMEMADEBREAD | Sat Nov 30, 2024 | End result of a starter | Oliver Goodridge and Juan Garavito |
| INURETO | Thu Dec 1, 2022 | Desensitize against through experience | Daniel Mauer |
| JAMESKIRK | Tue Jul 21, 2015 | TV/movie lead character whose middle name is Tiberius | David Phillips |
| LIMITEDEDITIONS | Tue Oct 28, 1997 | Bibliophile's treasures | Bernice Gordon |
| LOOKINGAT | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | Eying [white] | Derrick Niederman |
| LOSEONESMARBLES | Fri Mar 28, 2014 | Go mad | David J. Kahn |
| MACERS | Mon Aug 20, 2001 | Mugging retaliators, maybe | Sherry O. Blackard |
| MISCUT | Sun Apr 12, 2026 | Trading card error | Lance Enfinger and John Kugelman |
| MULLAHS | Thu Jul 30, 2015 | Muslim V.I.P.s | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| NEEDLESSTOSAY | Sun Apr 18, 2021 | "As you can imagine ..." | Johan Vass |
| NICEGUYS | Sun Oct 22, 1995 | Proverbial last-place finishers | Matt Gaffney |
| NOARMS | Mon Nov 27, 1995 | Feature of the Venus de Milo | Gregory E. Paul |
| ONTHEUP | Sat Oct 7, 2017 | Improving, in Britspeak | Byron Walden |
| OURMANFLINT | Sat Sep 11, 2004 | 1966 James Bond spoof | Byron Walden |
| OUTPLAY | Sat Jun 20, 2020 | Word in the "Survivor" motto | Stella Zawistowski |
| PIVOTED | Thu Mar 3, 1994 | Swiveled | Richard Silvestri |
| POWERSUITS | Sat Nov 28, 2020 | '80s work wear with shoulder pads | Nam Jin Yoon |
| PROCLAIMED | Thu Feb 28, 2013 | Declared publicly | Joe Krozel |
| RIGHTONRIGHTON | Sat Feb 18, 2023 | "Ni-i-ice!" | Kameron Austin Collins |
| SACAGAWEA | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | $1 | Joel Kaplow |
| SLALOMING | Sun Jul 10, 2005 | Zigzag activity | Con Pederson |
| SOUTHERNACCENT | Sat Dec 11, 2010 | What a Yankee is unlikely to have | Paula Gamache |
| SUPERBOWLXXX | Wed Nov 6, 2019 | Contest in which the Cowboys beat the Steelers 27-17 | Ross Trudeau |
| SURVIVOR | Mon Jul 8, 2013 | Reality show in which contestants get "voted off the island" | Randy Sowell |
| SWORDDANCE | Sun May 10, 2020 | Scottish tradition before battle | Adam Fromm |
| TORCHER | Sun Jun 7, 1998 | Arsonist | Randolph Ross |
| TWINCITY | Wed Oct 8, 1997 | St. Paul, for one | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| UNFIX | Fri Mar 24, 2000 | Detach | Manny Nosowsky |
| WARCLOUD | Sun Mar 20, 2011 | First horse to compete in all three Triple Crown races | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| WHILESAWAY | Sat Jun 22, 2019 | Passes idly | Joe Deeney |