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 50,931 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABDUCTEES | Fri Oct 14, 1994 | Humans on flying saucers, e.g. | Bob Sefick |
| ALIENABDUCTION | Tue Jul 21, 1998 | Supermarket tabloid subject #1 | Hugh Davis |
| BUTTERFLYSTROKE | Wed Sep 3, 2008 | One technique used by 36-Across | David J. Kahn |
| CARPETBAGGER | Mon Dec 5, 2005 | Reconstruction outsider | Gary Steinmehl |
| DOORKEYS | Fri Jan 31, 2020 | Building super's ringful | John Guzzetta and Michael Hawkins |
| ECARTES | Fri Apr 2, 2010 | King-high games | Alan Olschwang |
| FRAGILEEGOS | Fri Jul 4, 2003 | They're easily bruised | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FULLTILT | Sun Oct 5, 2014 | All out | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| HADALONGWAYTOGO | Fri Jan 31, 2014 | Was just getting started | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| IRREGULARS | Thu Nov 21, 1996 | Baker Street group | M. Ashwood-Smith |
| JEANSHORTS | Fri Dec 8, 2017 | Casual cutoffs | Paolo Pasco |
| KIDIS | Sat Aug 7, 2010 | "But the ___ not my son" ("Billie Jean" lyric) | Joe Krozel |
| LUNDYSLANE | Thu Mar 2, 1995 | Bowler's battle site? | Raymond Hamel |
| MALIEMPIRE | Sun Jan 8, 2017 | The sport of boxing in the 1960s and '70s, essentially? | Peter Broda and Erik Agard |
| MINGLER | Mon Jan 29, 2018 | One circulating at a party | Lynn Lempel |
| MOONSTRUCK | Mon Jan 3, 1994 | Olympia Dukakis film | Sidney L. Robbins |
| NEWUSER | Wed Dec 9, 2020 | One who might have to create an account | Owen Travis and Jeff Chen |
| OBIEAWARD | Mon Aug 12, 2019 | Theatrical honor | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| ONTHEAPPS | Sun May 24, 2026 | Using Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, etc. | David Steinberg |
| PANTYLINE | Sat May 9, 2015 | Female fashion faux pas | Kristian House |
| PHFACTOR | Tue Feb 23, 1999 | How acid-base properties affect the body | Robert Zimmerman |
| PINO | Sat Dec 18, 1993 | Spanish conifer | Manny Nosowsky |
| PORTLY | Sun May 2, 2004 | Hardly svelte | Derrick Niederman |
| POURING | Mon Apr 30, 2007 | Raining cats and dogs | Allan E. Parrish |
| PREENLIST | Sun Jun 19, 1994 | Sign up early | Nancy Scandrett Ross |
| QUIDDE | Sat Jun 14, 1997 | 1927 Peace Nobelist Ludwig | A. J. Santora |
| REDLION | Sun Oct 20, 2013 | Figure on the Scottish coat of arms | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ROMY | Tue Mar 31, 1998 | Actress Schneider | Alan Arbesfeld |
| SHARPEDGE | Mon Dec 22, 2014 | What a whetstone gives a knife | Lynn Lempel |
| SHEREHITE | Sat Oct 17, 1998 | "Women and Love" author | Bryant White |
| SPIREMES | Sun Jul 10, 1994 | Thin tangles of cell chromatin | Alvin Chase |
| STELLATE | Wed Dec 4, 1996 | Star-shaped | M. E. Skolsky |
| SUNDRY | Thu Oct 2, 2014 | Miscellaneous | David Woolf |
| TAXID | Wed Jul 26, 2017 | S.S.N., e.g. | Brian Cox |
| TELEGENIC | Sun Nov 14, 2004 | Looking good on the tube | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| THEENDOFTHELINE | Fri Mar 22, 2002 | Terminus | Randall J. Hartman |
| THUDDED | Fri Mar 6, 2026 | Hit the ground loudly | Adrian Johnson |
| TRADEPAPER | Fri Apr 10, 1998 | Variety, e.g. | Manny Nosowsky |
| TRIEDHARD | Wed Sep 18, 2024 | Gave it one's all | Casey Callaghan and Will Nediger |
| WRATHS | Sun Jan 13, 2008 | Angers | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |