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 50,385 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLTIMELOW | Wed Jun 25, 2003 | Worst ever | Leonard Williams |
| AMEBIC | Sun Jun 29, 2003 | Protozoan | Rich Norris |
| ANANAS | Fri Jan 31, 2014 | Pineapples: Sp. | Chris A. McGlothlin |
| ARMYUNIT | Sat Mar 15, 2025 | Company, e.g. | Ryan McCarty |
| BACKUPQB | Tue Mar 19, 2019 | Substitute for Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers, informally [16,17] | Daniel Larsen |
| CALMA | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | Serenity, in Seville | Joel Kaplow |
| CHESSBOXER | Sat May 31, 2025 | Participant in a hybrid sport that requires both brains and brawn | Adam Aaronson and Ricky Cruz |
| COMEONTO | Thu Feb 17, 2000 | Make a pass at | Matt Gaffney and David Bianco |
| CRIMERING | Sat Dec 16, 2023 | Ones making a racket? | Garrett Chalfin |
| GOATBUTTER | Sat Aug 16, 2025 | Dairy spread in a health food store | Byron Walden |
| GREEDISGOOD | Sat May 8, 2021 | "Wall Street" catchphrase | David Steinberg |
| GROUNDSQUIRRELS | Sat Apr 18, 2009 | Marmots and prairie dogs | Byron Walden |
| HEDDAGABLER | Tue May 23, 2006 | 60-Across play | Alan Arbesfeld |
| HEELERS | Sat May 3, 2014 | Many party hacks | Sam Ezersky |
| HOOFSIT | Sun Dec 17, 2023 | Chooses sidewalk over subway, say | Jeremy Newton |
| JAZZFEST | Sat Jun 1, 2024 | Annual music event in the Big Easy | Eric Warren |
| LATINROOT | Thu Mar 20, 2025 | The word "aquarium" has one | Daniel Grinberg |
| LAUGHING | Thu May 14, 2015 | See 30-Across | Kameron Austin Collins |
| LEADINGS | Fri Aug 22, 1997 | Spaces between lines, in printing | Frank Longo |
| LEGALREPRESENTATION | Sun Jul 9, 2023 | Christina Iverson | |
| MALENURSE | Sat Jul 27, 2013 | Member of a medical minority | John Lieb and David Quarfoot |
| MEDIADIET | Sat Jul 26, 2025 | What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively | Adam Levav |
| MINIATURES | Sat Feb 21, 2004 | Dollhouse collector's collection | Brendan Quigley and Patrick Berry |
| ONEINFOUR | Sat May 9, 2015 | Chance of getting heads on two consecutive coin flips | Kristian House |
| ORAJEL | Sat Nov 22, 2025 | Toothache medication | Blake Slonecker |
| PERFECTCUBES | Mon Sep 29, 1997 | 1, 8, 27, 64, etc. | Randy Sowell |
| PICNICAREA | Mon Jan 10, 2011 | Outdoor eating place where you might lay a blanket | James Tuttle |
| PONTIACS | Sun Dec 8, 2024 | Firebirds and Fieros | John Kugelman |
| PULLAPART | Thu Nov 5, 2020 | Rend | Jeremy Newton |
| REDQUEEN | Thu Nov 6, 2008 | "Through the Looking-Glass" antagonist | Jeremy Newton |
| SCRUMS | Sun Jan 24, 1999 | Rugby formations | Robert Malinow |
| SHARPNESS | Fri Mar 10, 1995 | Acerbity | Frank A. Longo |
| SINCLAIROIL | Sat Feb 26, 2005 | Company with a brontosaur logo | Jim Page |
| SIRROBERTPEEL | Sun Apr 24, 2005 | First British Conservative P.M. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SPROUTWINGS | Thu Nov 29, 2018 | *Become angelic, figuratively | Herre Schouwerwou |
| STEENBOK | Sun Oct 27, 2024 | Horned antelope of southern Africa | Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen |
| TURNSTOSTONE | Sun May 13, 2007 | *What someone who looks at Medusa does | Jim Page |
| VEDAS | Fri Sep 17, 2004 | Sacred Hindu text | Manny Nosowsky |
| VIRTUOUS | Fri Nov 3, 2006 | Chaste | Manny Nosowsky |
| WHATLLIDO | Sat May 11, 2002 | 1924 Irving Berlin tune | Mark Diehl |