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 50,371 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADEVIL | Mon Aug 14, 2006 | Have ___ of a time | Gene Newman |
| BLESSINGINDISGUISE | Sun Apr 8, 2007 | 127-Across or 91-Down? | Byron Walden |
| BOSSTWEED | Sat Oct 23, 1999 | Thomas Nast target | Frank Longo and Brendan Quigley |
| CABLET | Mon Aug 23, 1999 | Nautical rope | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| CANCELEDOUT | Sat Mar 13, 2010 | Simplified, in a way | Tyler Hinman and Byron Walden |
| CAPTCHAS | Thu Feb 8, 2024 | Reality checks? | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| COUNTERPLEA | Sun Aug 16, 2009 | "Feed me" | Randolph Ross |
| COUSY | Mon May 13, 1996 | Basketball great Bob | S. L. Robbins |
| DOUBLEGLAZED | Sun Sep 12, 2010 | Like some doughnuts and windows | Paula Gamache |
| EIGHTHOURDAY | Wed Feb 6, 2002 | Common shift | Joe DiPietro |
| GENERATIONALPHA | Sat May 22, 2021 | Ones born beginning in the early 2010s | Sid Sivakumar and Matthew Stock |
| GEORGESTEINBRENNER | Sun Jul 1, 2012 | Team owner who was 65-Across (1930) | Dan Schoenholz |
| GIFTIE | Sun Jun 16, 2002 | "O wad some Pow'r the ___ gie us": Burns | Manny Nosowsky |
| IDCHIPS | Fri Jun 17, 2022 | Aids in recovering lost pets | Pao Roy |
| IMHERS | Fri Jan 19, 2001 | "___, she's mine ..." (Manfred Mann lyric) | Joe DiPietro |
| INCANS | Thu Dec 31, 2009 | Pachacuti's people | Frank Longo |
| ISSUEDTO | Sun Jun 12, 2022 | Gave officially | Will Nediger |
| LEFTKEY | Sun Dec 24, 2017 | It moves a cursor back | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| LOWTIREPRESSURE | Fri Mar 24, 2023 | Flat indication, perhaps | Blake Slonecker |
| LUCASARTS | Thu Sep 7, 2017 | Maker of Star Wars and Indiana Jones video games | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| MAKEAGRANDENTRANCE | Sun May 24, 1998 | Architect's job? | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| MARGINCALL | Thu Dec 31, 2020 | Broker's request for funds | David J. Kahn |
| MUSCLEIN | Fri Jan 27, 2012 | Lay claim forcibly | Joe Krozel |
| OVERWRITE | Sat Jan 31, 1998 | Cover, as text | Rich Norris |
| PARENTALCONSENT | Fri Aug 19, 1994 | Minor need, at times? | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| PGFILMS | Sat Oct 23, 2021 | Standard Disney fare | Sam Ezersky |
| PHILLIE | Sun Mar 15, 2009 | 2008 World Series winner | Patrick Berry |
| RARITIES | Tue Apr 18, 2017 | They come along once in a blue moon | Bruce Haight |
| REVERENDS | Fri Mar 10, 1995 | Clerics | Frank A. Longo |
| RRATEDMOVIE | Wed Aug 20, 2014 | *Fare for those 17 and up | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| SECONDSTORYMAN | Sun Mar 14, 2004 | Sequel writer's other job? | Craig Kasper |
| SOURALE | Sat Nov 7, 2020 | Tart taproom offering | Kameron Austin Collins and Paolo Pasco |
| TEARSHEETS | Sat Sep 28, 2019 | Printing samples | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| TELLMEANOTHERONE | Wed Jan 17, 2018 | *"A likely story!" | Jules Markey |
| THEMUMMYRETURNS | Sun Aug 25, 2024 | Tut-tut? | John Kugelman |
| TOKYOROSE | Sun Aug 16, 2015 | *W.W. II propagandist | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| TOOKAHIKE | Wed Jan 9, 2013 | Did or didn't participate in the Boy Scouts outing? | David Ben-Merre |
| TREETOADS | Sat Jun 14, 2025 | Sticky-footed amphibians | Barbara Lin |
| XBOXGAMES | Thu Mar 7, 2019 | Halo and Gears of War | Brian Thomas |
| YOUNGMC | Fri Dec 23, 2022 | Co-writer of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" | Brandon Koppy |