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 50,922 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADOPTIONS | Mon Oct 24, 2016 | Humane Society successes | John Guzzetta |
| ALIENENCOUNTER | Sat May 10, 2025 | First contact | Shaun Phillips |
| ANKLEDEEP | Sat Jul 16, 2011 | Like the water in inflatable kiddie pools, typically | Patrick Berry |
| AREYOULISTENING | Sat Apr 16, 2011 | "Is this thing on?" | Robert H. Wolfe |
| ATTEMPTING | Mon Jun 22, 2015 | Good Twitter handle for a seductress? | Joel Fagliano |
| BADGUYS | Tue Feb 17, 2004 | Villains | Bob Frank and Nancy Salomon |
| BENICIODELTORO | Sun Apr 25, 2021 | Oscar winner for his role as a Mexican narc in "Traffic" | Jeremy Newton |
| BIGBREAK | Fri Nov 8, 2024 | Life-changing opportunity, maybe | Evans Clinchy |
| CAPTIVEHEART | Thu Feb 14, 2008 | Michael Redgrave war movie, with "The" | David J. Kahn |
| CARDHOLDER | Mon Feb 12, 2018 | One with credit ... or a literal hint to 17-, 27- and 44-Across | Michael Black |
| CAYENNEPEPPER | Sun Nov 4, 2018 | Paprika lookalike | Patrick Berry |
| CORDEN | Thu May 5, 2022 | James of "Carpool Karaoke" fame | Adam Wagner |
| ENTERERS | Sat Jan 2, 2010 | People working with logs? | Robert H. Wolfe |
| EXPLOSIVE | Mon Jul 20, 2009 | Nitroglycerin or dynamite | Pancho Harrison |
| HANDBRA | Sat Aug 4, 2018 | Makeshift technique for female modesty | Sam Trabucco |
| HOUSEOFCOMMONS | Sat Feb 26, 2005 | It has 659 members | Jim Page |
| IGOTTHESHAFT | Sat Feb 10, 2007 | See 6-Down | Bob Peoples |
| ILLMANNERED | Sun May 19, 1996 | UNC*H | C. M. Deber |
| INEVERWILL | Sat May 24, 2025 | "Don't expect that from me" | Gene Louise De Vera |
| LANDEDON | Sun Jul 7, 2019 | Arrived at, as an answer | Jack Reuter |
| LECARS | Thu Jan 27, 2022 | 1970s-'80s Renaults | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| MODERNA | Sun Aug 21, 2022 | Pharmaceutical company whose Nasdaq symbol is MRNA | Brooke Husic and Will Nediger |
| OFFENSIVEREBOUND | Sun Oct 24, 2021 | Your ex's new date whom you just can't stand? | Katie Hale |
| POINTOFINTEREST | Tue Aug 31, 1999 | Tour bus stop | Arthur S. Verdesca |
| POPLARTREE | Sat Apr 11, 2026 | Arboreal symbol in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" | Kareem Ayas |
| POWERUSERS | Fri May 10, 2024 | Tech-savvy folks | Jesse Cohn |
| SCAREOFF | Sun Apr 30, 2006 | Frighten away | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SEANASTIN | Sun Mar 24, 2024 | Portrayer of Bob Newby on "Stranger Things" | John Kugelman |
| SIRKAY | Fri Aug 1, 2014 | Boorish member of King Arthur's Round Table | Ashton Anderson and James Mulhern |
| SORORITYROW | Fri Aug 25, 2017 | Home to many sisters | Sam Trabucco |
| STAMPALBUM | Sat Feb 27, 2016 | Book with profiles of many famous people? | Julian Lim |
| STOUTFELLOW | Wed Sep 30, 1998 | Heavy drinker? | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| SUNNER | Tue Sep 9, 2008 | Person in a solarium | Patrick John Duggan |
| TACKLED | Fri Apr 27, 2007 | Took on | Randolph Ross |
| TAPSON | Tue Apr 21, 2020 | Selects with a finger, as an app | Andrew Kingsley |
| TOLIVE | Sun Mar 15, 2020 | Translation of the French "vivre" or German "leben" | Nancy Stark and Will Nediger |
| TOTOIV | Sat Nov 6, 2010 | Triple-platinum 1982 album with the #1 hit "Africa" | Brad Wilber |
| WASNTCLEAR | Tue May 3, 2022 | Needed further explanation | Julian Lim |
| WOWIEZOWIE | Sat Apr 29, 2023 | Cry of amazement | David Steinberg |
| WRONGO | Sun Jun 5, 2022 | "You're not right about that!" | Christina Iverson and Katie Hale |