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 50,558 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCOUNTS | Sat Sep 9, 2023 | Some client arrangements | Robert S. Gard |
| ACTODC | Sat Aug 24, 2019 | Path of some electrical conversions, for short | Sam Ezersky |
| ANEWLEAF | Mon Apr 1, 2024 | Start behaving more responsibly, literally? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BATTERYPARK | Sun Oct 22, 2006 | Tip of Manhattan | Harvey Estes |
| BIOPSY | Tue Aug 20, 2024 | Tissue sample test | Sam Buchbinder |
| BITUMEN | Sun Mar 13, 2011 | Asphalt ingredient | Patrick Berry |
| BLEWUP | Wed Sep 17, 2003 | Exploded | Richard Silvestri |
| BYPRODUCTS | Fri Nov 25, 2016 | Unlooked-for results | Patrick Berry |
| CAPEMAY | Wed Apr 14, 2004 | Southern tip of New Jersey | Randolph Ross |
| CHICKENYAKITORI | Mon Jul 12, 2021 | Grilled Japanese dish on skewers | Kevin Christian |
| DELIVERER | Sat Sep 11, 2004 | Messiah | Byron Walden |
| DEREN | Sat Apr 26, 1997 | Avant-garde film maker Maya ___ | Frank Longo |
| FLATTER | Thu Dec 23, 2021 | Butter up, say | Stephen McCarthy |
| FLYSOLO | Fri May 30, 2008 | Eschew aid | Natan Last |
| HALALFOOD | Tue Jun 26, 2018 | *Meals permissible under Islamic law | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| HUMORLESS | Sun Jul 27, 2025 | Not funny | John Kugelman |
| IAMNOTACROOK | Thu Sep 21, 2023 | Infamous presidential denial | Dan Caprera |
| INBOUND | Sun Oct 11, 2020 | Like some flights | Gary Larson |
| IXTACIHUATL | Wed Jul 8, 1998 | Volcano southeast of Mexico City | Sam Bellotto Jr. |
| LOBBYER | Mon Aug 2, 1999 | Washington arm-bender | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| LUNARPROBE | Fri Sep 19, 2025 | Fly me to the moon! | Erica Hsiung Wojcik |
| MANGROVE | Sun Aug 30, 1998 | Everglades evergreen | John Wolting |
| MOTHERNIGHT | Sun Apr 20, 2008 | Nick Nolte movie based on a Kurt Vonnegut novel | John Farmer |
| ODORLESSGAS | Tue Dec 17, 2019 | _xygen _iflu_ _ide | David Levinson Wilk |
| OHMYGOSH | Fri Mar 6, 2020 | "Heavens to Betsy!" | Caitlin Reid |
| PANCAKES | Sat Jan 13, 1996 | Flattens informally | J. Page |
| PAPALMASS | Mon Mar 16, 2020 | Easter event in Vatican City | Gary Cee |
| PENTAS | Fri Dec 9, 1994 | Some hotels | Matt Gaffney |
| PINO | Sat Dec 18, 1993 | Spanish conifer | Manny Nosowsky |
| ROBERTPEARY | Fri Jul 14, 2006 | Admiral who went to an extreme? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ROUNDUP | Sun Jul 20, 2014 | Cowboys' activity | Eric Berlin |
| SCHOOLMARM | Sat Jun 27, 2020 | Miss Beadle of "Little House on the Prairie," e.g. | Ryan Mccarty |
| SEVENYEARITCHES | Mon Mar 25, 2002 | Temptations for spouses | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| STREAMOFAIR | Fri Sep 30, 2005 | Pinwheel turner | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| TELLMEIMPRETTY | Sun Feb 4, 2024 | Fishing line? | Daniel Grinberg |
| THEODOREREX | Sat Apr 14, 2012 | 2001 presidential biography by Edmund Morris | Mark Diehl |
| THRACIAN | Thu Oct 15, 2015 | Orpheus or Spartacus, by birth | Kevin G. Der |
| TRAWLING | Tue Mar 16, 1999 | Working with a dragnet | Fred Piscop |
| TREBLES | Sun Oct 20, 2002 | Shrill sounds | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| WOODSMAN | Sat Mar 14, 2015 | Savior of Little Red Riding Hood | James Mulhern |