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 51,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASKETWEAVE | Mon Jul 14, 2025 | Textile pattern that resembles braided wicker | Christina Iverson |
| BUCKS | Thu Feb 9, 2023 | Does not | Alex Rosen |
| CHRISTMASSEASON | Sat Mar 30, 2024 | When the lights go out? | Blake Slonecker |
| COMMISSION | Fri Jun 23, 2000 | Some people work on it | Noah Dephoure |
| CONGREGANT | Sun Jun 8, 2025 | Churchgoer | John Kugelman |
| DOTHEJOB | Sat May 3, 2014 | Cut it | Sam Ezersky |
| DOVEKIE | Sat Aug 8, 2009 | Little auk | Karen M. Tracey |
| DRYCELL | Sun Apr 28, 1996 | Kind of battery | D. C. Baldwin |
| GETTHEWRONGIDEA | Sat Apr 16, 2016 | Misunderstand | Andrew Zhou |
| GUTSIER | Sat May 2, 2020 | Showing more nerve | Paolo Pasco |
| HARSHLY | Fri Nov 6, 2015 | How disciplinarians handle miscreants | Ian Livengood |
| HASITALL | Sat Apr 23, 2022 | Lacks for nothing | Matthew Stock |
| HENRYV | Wed Aug 16, 2000 | Work of 1599 | David Levinson Wilk |
| HEORSHE | Sun Mar 2, 2025 | Binary pronoun options | Adam Wagner |
| HOSTAGES | Sat Mar 19, 1994 | Hijacker's currency | Manny Nosowsky |
| IDBEHONORED | Thu Mar 15, 2018 | "Yes, how nice of you to offer" | Joe DiPietro |
| IFTHAT | Thu Jul 7, 2016 | At most | Joel Elkins and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| IMMIGRATIONOFFICE | Thu May 2, 2019 | Administerer of citizenship tests | Julie Bérubé |
| MAGICA | Sat Mar 15, 2003 | Ars ___ (sorcery) | Adam Cohen |
| MARTHADANDRIDGE | Tue Feb 22, 2005 | She wed George Washington | Ed Early |
| MEALPREP | Sun Apr 17, 2022 | Cooking ahead of time, say | Emet Ozar |
| MILLSTONE | Tue May 5, 2015 | Unwanted weight | Michael Blake and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| NEJD | Wed May 1, 2002 | Arabian plateau region | Steve Jones |
| OZONIC | Sat Sep 4, 1999 | Like fresh air | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PASSIVERESISTANCE | Sun Aug 19, 2018 | Protest tactic ... as suggested by 23-, 36-, 54-, 77- and 91-Across? | Jacob Stulberg |
| PLACEBOEFFECT | Fri Dec 22, 2006 | Clinical trial phenomenon | Mike Nothnagel |
| PRICEEARNINGS | Sun Feb 17, 2008 | *Kind of ratio | Henry Hook |
| PUZZLEBOX | Fri Dec 8, 2017 | Frustrating thing to open | Paolo Pasco |
| REAPPEALS | Sun Apr 30, 2000 | Tries for a third trial | Cathy Millhauser |
| SACRIFICE | Sun Mar 31, 2019 | [See note] | Andrew J. Ries |
| SELFPERCEPTION | Sun Apr 27, 1997 | One magazine's view? | Matt Gaffney |
| SENDANSOS | Sat Oct 25, 1997 | Request help | John Scott Marrone |
| SPREZZATURA | Sat Apr 2, 2022 | The art of appearing effortlessly nonchalant | Kyle Dolan |
| SPURIOUS | Sun Feb 23, 2025 | Not to be relied upon | Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa |
| STRAIGHTENER | Sat Jun 15, 2019 | Hair care item | Ryan McCarty |
| SUMMERTIMEBLUES | Fri Mar 3, 2017 | 1958 hit song that begins "I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler" | Patrick Berry |
| THEICEMAN | Thu Jan 29, 2015 | With 37-Across, drama set in New York's Last Chance Saloon | John Farmer |
| TROCHEE | Sat Sep 22, 2018 | Counterpart of an iamb | Sam Trabucco |
| WIGWAGS | Sun Jan 11, 1998 | Signals at sea | Nancy Joline and Peg Conner |
| WISHFUL | Sun Jul 16, 2017 | Like some thinking | Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller |