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 50,672 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTIJAM | Sun Jul 21, 2002 | Preventing stoppages | Trip Payne |
| ARENTNECESSARY | Sun Feb 26, 2006 | Contractions ___ | Randolph Ross |
| BACKINTHESADDLE | Fri Jan 22, 2016 | Functioning again | Paula Gamache |
| BAKERIES | Mon Sep 25, 2000 | Pastry shops | Peter Gordon |
| BALLCARRIERS | Mon Apr 2, 2001 | Running backs, often | Peter Gordon |
| BROD | Sat May 22, 2010 | Kafka confidant Max | Will Nediger |
| CANDYSHOP | Sat Mar 8, 2014 | One stocking bars | David Steinberg |
| CATCHFORTYWINKS | Wed Mar 29, 1995 | What an insomniac would like to do, minimally | Manny Nosowsky |
| CERE | Sun Sep 12, 2010 | Smear with wax, old-style | Paula Gamache |
| COVERTOPS | Mon Sep 30, 2013 | Spy activities ... or a hint to the answers to the six starred clues | Ian Livengood |
| DEATHATAFUNERAL | Thu Jan 7, 2021 | 2007 black comedy directed by Frank Oz | Matthew Stock and Sid Sivakumar |
| DEEPFUNK | Sat Apr 4, 2015 | Bad case of the blues | Ned White |
| DEHISCES | Sat Sep 20, 2008 | Bursts open, as legume seedpods | Joe Krozel |
| ENTERERS | Sat Jan 2, 2010 | People working with logs? | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FORWHOMTHEBELLTOLLS | Sun Jan 15, 2023 | Tale about soldiers and treachery in southern Europe [1940, 1603] | Michael Schlossberg |
| GRAECO | Sun May 12, 2002 | ___-Roman | Alan Arbesfeld |
| GUSTAVHOLST | Sat Dec 2, 2006 | English composer of the opera "The Perfect Fool" | Bob Klahn |
| HOTEP | Sun Mar 7, 2010 | Egyptian for "be at peace" | Tony Orbach and Patrick Blindauer |
| KELVIN | Sun Oct 16, 2016 | Temperature unit | Tom McCoy |
| KITKATBARS | Tue Jul 20, 2021 | Chocolaty treats that you might "break me off a piece of" | Sam Buchbinder |
| KROFT | Sun May 8, 2016 | Longtime "60 Minutes" reporter | David J. Kahn |
| MUSICALE | Wed Dec 14, 1994 | Soirée entertainment | Wayne Robert Williams |
| NASALCAVITY | Sun Oct 7, 2018 | Where decongestant spray goes ... | Tom McCoy |
| OUTOFUSE | Fri Sep 17, 2010 | Defunct | Jonah Kagan, Brown University '13 |
| POSTAGESTAMPLOT | Sun May 22, 2005 | Small area of land to build on | A. J. Santora |
| PURLIE | Thu Jun 16, 1994 | 1970 0ssie Davis musical | Jim Page |
| REPAINTED | Sun Jan 2, 2000 | Like a home, often, before it's sold | Rich Norris |
| RNH | Sun Aug 6, 2006 | Abbr. after Sen. Judd Gregg's name | Mark Feldman |
| SANDWICHISLANDS | Thu Mar 23, 2000 | Hawaii, once | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| SCALARS | Sat Jul 14, 2001 | Time and temperature, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| SELLSTOCKS | Mon Sep 21, 2015 | Lighten one's portfolio, say | Bruce Haight |
| SPIRALPASS | Sat Dec 18, 2004 | Quarterback's ideal | Dana Motley |
| SQUIRT | Sun Jul 20, 2008 | Pipsqueak | Barry C. Silk |
| STRETCHBRA | Mon Feb 7, 2011 | It offers flexible support for women | Lynn Lempel |
| SUNDAYBRUNCH | Mon Aug 28, 2023 | *Weekend occasion for avocado toast and mimosas | Brian Callahan |
| SUNDOWNS | Sat Mar 25, 2006 | Regular settings | Byron Walden |
| TAKESXRAYS | Fri Mar 12, 2010 | Gets under someone's skin? | Tim Croce |
| TARANDFEATHER | Sun Oct 28, 2018 | "After Earth" | Erik Agard |
| THEPIANIST | Sun Mar 4, 2018 | Film for which Adrien Brody won Best Actor | Byron Walden |
| USMARINES | Sat May 21, 2005 | Trainees at Parris Island, S.C. | Rich Norris |