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 50,544 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMANCE | Thu Feb 21, 2013 | Unwillingness to yield | Paul Hunsberger |
| ALLURER | Sat Dec 6, 2003 | Siren | Craig Kasper |
| BARCELONAMETRO | Tue Oct 18, 2016 | Public transportation system in the capital of Catalonia | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| BEERSHEBA | Mon Aug 28, 2000 | Southernmost city of ancient Palestine | Richard Hughes |
| CASHPAYMENT | Mon Dec 27, 2010 | Compensation in bills and coins | C. W. Stewart |
| CHANDLERBING | Sun Jan 8, 2017 | Cherry for talk show host Chelsea? | Peter Broda and Erik Agard |
| CHILIPOWDER | Wed May 17, 2006 | 3/4 teaspoon | Patrick Blindauer |
| COMMISSAR | Fri Sep 30, 1994 | High-up apparatchik | Matt Gaffney |
| COOKER | Wed Mar 21, 2007 | Slow-pot | Ed Early |
| ENDUSERS | Sun Jan 3, 2016 | For whom products are designed | David Woolf |
| HORNEY | Sun Jan 4, 1998 | Psychoanalyst Karen | Mark Danna |
| HOSCALE | Thu Aug 10, 2006 | Common model railroading spec | Todd McClary |
| IKNOWITIS | Fri Apr 20, 2012 | "You're telling me!" | Mike Nothnagel |
| INFORMER | Mon Feb 1, 1999 | Tattletale | Dorothy Smitonick |
| IVEHADITWITHYOU | Fri Jul 29, 2005 | Spat-ending words | Kyle Mahowald |
| KEEPACLOSEEYEON | Fri Dec 24, 2021 | Monitor | Evan Kalish |
| LASTHOPE | Tue Jan 16, 2024 | If this is exhausted, all is lost | Marshal Herrmann |
| LISTLESSLY | Thu Mar 24, 1994 | Sans esprit | A.J. Santora |
| LODGER | Thu Oct 14, 2010 | Paying guest | Jim Hilger |
| MAKEANOFFER | Mon Aug 1, 2005 | Start a negotiation | Kendall Twigg |
| MEDIACLIP | Fri Nov 20, 2015 | Excerpt for P.R. purposes, say | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| NAILCARE | Sat Nov 13, 2021 | You might have a file for this | Adam Aaronson |
| PAROLEES | Sun Apr 28, 2013 | New releases? | Patrick Berry |
| PIANOSOLO | Wed Jan 28, 2009 | "Layla" has one | Michael Langwald |
| POISONED | Sat Nov 24, 2012 | Like four ill-fated popes, it's said | Josh Knapp |
| POORSHOT | Thu May 17, 2007 | Hardly a marksman | Alan Arbesfeld |
| PRIMARYCOLORS | Tue Nov 6, 2001 | Red, white and blue, for Americans? | Denise Neuendorf |
| PURCHASE | Sat Oct 19, 1996 | Acquisition | G. Petgrave |
| RUNONESMOUTH | Sat Jun 15, 2019 | Go on disparagingly | Ryan McCarty |
| SAMUELBUTLER | Sun Dec 3, 1995 | Sonnetizing servant | Martin Schneider |
| SENTMESSAGE | Sun Oct 23, 2011 | Item in a certain e-mail folder | Joe DiPietro |
| SHAVINGS | Sun Oct 3, 2010 | Sharpener residue | Daniel A. Finan |
| SILVERTONGUED | Tue Dec 30, 2003 | Eloquent | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| STRAIGHTENUP | Thu Sep 25, 2025 | Stop slouching | Jesse Goldberg |
| TAVERNER | Sun Apr 8, 2007 | Person behind bars? | Byron Walden |
| TELEPHONIC | Fri Dec 3, 2010 | Like some communication | Matt Ginsberg |
| THEGREENROOM | Sun Mar 17, 1996 | Place to sit before going on | Peter O'Gordon |
| USOUR | Sun Mar 20, 2005 | "Forgive ___ trespasses " | Patrick Berry |
| WIGSHOPS | Sun Jun 13, 2021 | They might help with changing your locks | Stephen McCarthy |
| WORKSITE | Fri Feb 13, 2004 | Job setting | Manny Nosowsky |