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 51,167 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMANUENSES | Fri Dec 26, 1997 | Secretaries | Bob Sefick |
| ASHKENAZI | Fri Dec 27, 2013 | Like Albert Einstein, ethnically | Ian Livengood & J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| BATTERYTERMINALS | Sun Sep 17, 2017 | Some positives and negatives | Mark MacLachlan |
| BATTING | Fri Jun 23, 1995 | Kind of average | Manny Nosowsky |
| BLANKTILE | Wed Jun 18, 2014 | What you'd need to play 26-, 29-, 43- or 45-Across | Amy Johnson |
| BOSTWICK | Sun Jul 5, 2015 | Barry of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BYALLODDS | Wed Dec 7, 2005 | Undoubtedly | Manny Nosowsky |
| CARDINALNUMBERS | Wed May 7, 2008 | Musial's 6 and Gibson's 45? | Richard Silvestri |
| CHINESEPUZZLES | Mon Nov 7, 1994 | Intricate problems | Randall J. Hartman |
| COMMONER | Sun Sep 29, 2019 | One without a title | Tom McCoy |
| DAYOFF | Mon Feb 15, 2021 | Respite from work | Meconya Alford |
| DONTBETONIT | Sun Apr 18, 2010 | *Sure loser | Randolph Ross |
| EASTERNMOST | Sat Aug 26, 2006 | First to see the sun, maybe | Henry Hook |
| FITFUL | Thu Sep 14, 2006 | Like a bad night's sleep | Karen M. Tracey |
| HALFVOLLEYED | Fri Jan 9, 2015 | Made a speedy return? | Patrick Berry |
| IMPELLED | Sat Oct 26, 2019 | Drove | Sam Trabucco |
| MADELINE | Thu Feb 13, 2014 | Title girl in a children's book series set in Paris | Daniel Landman |
| MILLABLE | Sat Nov 22, 2003 | Like peppercorns | Robert H. Wolfe |
| OKEEFFES | Thu Jul 17, 1997 | Some colorful abstract paintings | Wayne Robert Williams |
| PIGMY | Fri Jan 7, 2000 | Shorty: Var. | Manny Nosowsky |
| PILOTED | Sun Mar 23, 2008 | Flew | Robert W. Harris |
| PINEAWAY | Wed Jul 19, 2023 | Be forlorn | Billy Bratton |
| PLANTATREE | Sun Jun 24, 2012 | Arborist's catchphrase | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| PLUMBRULE | Fri Sep 6, 2019 | Surveyor's instrument | Mark Diehl |
| PROPHECY | Fri Jul 26, 2024 | Predictive text? | Andy Kravis |
| PUSSINBOOTS | Sun Feb 19, 1995 | Charles Perrault tale | Alfio Micci |
| ROMPERROOM | Mon Jun 4, 2007 | Classic kids' show | Steve Kahn |
| SIDEARMPITCHES | Mon Mar 25, 2002 | Some thrown baseballs | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| SOLDIERANT | Mon Oct 5, 1998 | Queen's subject? | Peter Gordon |
| SOMETHINGELSE | Sun Oct 4, 2020 | To anyone who wasn't addressed above: "You're ..." | Sam Ezersky |
| SPACEWESTERN | Sat May 14, 2022 | Genre for "Cowboy Bebop" and "The Mandalorian" | Ada Nicolle |
| STUDENTDRIVER | Sat Jun 29, 2013 | Sign over a car | Joe Krozel |
| TACOTRUCKS | Tue Oct 4, 2016 | Street vendors selling Mexican food | Sam Buchbinder |
| TAPEROFF | Sun Apr 30, 2006 | Gradually decline | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TURNONANAXIS | Wed May 30, 2007 | Revolve | Mike Nothnagel |
| UNFAITHFUL | Tue Jul 27, 2021 | Not following one's vows | Jennifer Lee and Victor Galson |
| WAREHOUSEOUTLET | Mon Sep 27, 1999 | Shoppers' mecca #2 | Ed Early |
| WELSHES | Tue May 17, 1994 | Reneges | Harvey Estes |
| WHORLED | Sat Apr 5, 1997 | Like fingerprints | Rand H. Burns |
| WIPERBLADES | Wed Jul 1, 2020 | They go back and forth in bad weather | Amanda Rafkin and Ross Trudeau |