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 51,166 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABORTER | Fri Jul 29, 1994 | Launch stopper | A. D. Cover |
| ALEVANS | Thu Mar 2, 2006 | Brewery wagons? (D.E.) | Patrick Merrell |
| AUTOTUNED | Wed Feb 26, 2020 | Artificial, as some modern pop vocals | Francis Heaney |
| BABYJANE | Thu Oct 11, 2001 | 1962 Bette Davis title role | Nancy S. Ross |
| BOSTONIVY | Wed Jul 20, 2005 | Fenway Park climber | Roy Leban |
| COPPERPLATE | Tue Jun 16, 2009 | *Engraver's surface | Paula Gamache |
| DENTALCROWN | Wed Sep 15, 2021 | Canine covering? | Sophie Buchmueller and Ross Trudeau |
| DETAINED | Sun May 31, 2020 | Held up | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| DISCARDING | Sun Apr 26, 2020 | Throwing away | Royce Ferguson |
| DISTILLS | Wed Oct 30, 2002 | Makes mountain dew | Kumar Balani |
| DOUBLEDATES | Thu Jun 3, 2021 | Candlelit dinners for four, say | Kyra Wilson and Sophia Maymudes |
| ENTRAILS | Sat May 31, 2014 | Innards | John Lampkin |
| FIVEGUINEA | Sat Feb 13, 2010 | Like an old English coin worth 105 shillings | Ashish Vengsarkar |
| HEADSTONES | Sat Jun 25, 2016 | Grave accents? | Kameron Austin Collins |
| HORSERUSTLER | Tue May 18, 2010 | Thief in a western | Peter A. Collins |
| KOMBUCHA | Wed Mar 5, 2025 | Fermented, sweetened tea drink | Rebecca Goldstein |
| LASTWORDSSAID | Sun Aug 4, 2002 | "Goodbye" and "amen," usually | Robert Malinow |
| LEANSINTO | Fri Jun 21, 1996 | Opposes, as the wind | G. R. Ferguson |
| LI | Thu Dec 12, 2019 | See 34-Across | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| LINKUP | Tue Jun 8, 2004 | Meeting of spacecraft | Ed Early |
| MANUALRECOUNT | Sun Feb 9, 2025 | Instructions for slaying Dracula? | Rich Katz and Jeff Chen |
| PANICLE | Fri Aug 18, 2000 | Flower cluster | Patrick D. Berry |
| PASTILLE | Sat Jul 30, 2011 | Medicated lozenge | Patrick Berry |
| PFLAG | Fri Jun 28, 2024 | National advocacy grp. for L.G.B.T.Q. issues | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano |
| PILOTERROR | Fri Jan 8, 2016 | Possibility considered after an air accident | Peter A. Collins |
| REPELLENTS | Fri Dec 5, 1997 | Debuggers? | Craig Kasper and Dave Tuller |
| RESCORES | Fri May 11, 2012 | Produces new music for, as a movie | Natan Last |
| SENSITIZED | Wed Dec 4, 2013 | Made more aware | Daniel Raymon |
| SETSATARGETDATE | Thu Dec 15, 2005 | Approximates the time of completion | Patrick Merrell |
| SPOUTING | Sat Jul 18, 2009 | Delivering a tirade | Joe Krozel |
| STICKSWITH | Wed Jul 26, 2000 | Keeps | William I. Johnston |
| STLAWRENCE | Thu Aug 6, 1998 | Thousand Islands locale | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| TIDELESS | Sun Dec 17, 1995 | Not rising or falling, as a sea | Dean Niles |
| TONYSNOW | Wed Feb 23, 2011 | Press secretary under George W. Bush | Barry C. Silk |
| TOUGHIE | Fri Jan 2, 2009 | Real poser | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| TYPEUP | Mon Jun 10, 2024 | Put into a Word document, say | Kareem Ayas |
| WARBLOGS | Sat Apr 22, 2023 | Battle sites? | Byron Walden |
| WIDOWED | Tue Oct 22, 1996 | Bereaved, in a way | E. Quigley |
| WILLIAMHURT | Sun Nov 16, 2014 | Oscar winner who would make a lousy anesthesiologist? | Andrew J. Ries |
| YELLOWCARDS | Sun Jul 28, 2024 | Results of some fouls in soccer | Paolo Pasco |