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 50,469 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIRLESS | Sun May 10, 1998 | Close | Rich Silvestri |
| APOCKET | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | It's full of rye, in rhyme | Frank Longo |
| ARIANES | Sat Nov 3, 2001 | Some satellite launchers | Robert H. Wolfe |
| BEDRIDDEN | Wed Aug 20, 2003 | Laid up | Mel Taub |
| BLOWMEDOWN | Thu Apr 30, 1998 | Comment from Popeye, appropriately | Kelly Clark |
| CLIPPINGS | Sat Dec 24, 2005 | Scrapbook fodder | Byron Walden |
| COMEDIENNES | Fri Apr 16, 2010 | Women who may make people break up? | Eric Berlin |
| DOTHEDISHES | Sun Jul 12, 2020 | Chore for a satellite TV technician? | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| DUPERS | Sat Jul 11, 1998 | Con artists | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| HASABLAST | Sun Jan 28, 2024 | Really enjoys oneself | Nathan Hasegawa |
| HEARTELLOF | Sun May 22, 2016 | Find out about | Victor Barocas and Andy Kravis |
| IHAVEARIGHTTOKNOW | Sun Apr 3, 2016 | Indignant reply when someone withholds information | Natan Last |
| INBUNCHES | Mon Feb 17, 2003 | Grouped | Alan Arbesfeld |
| LOUISCINQ | Thu Oct 3, 1996 | The king has drowned, in 33-Across? | J. R. Leeds |
| MEASURETWICECUTONCE | Sun Oct 12, 2025 | Carpenter's adage illustrated four times in this puzzle | Michael Schlossberg |
| MODEOFTRANSPORTATION | Sun May 23, 2021 | Car in {plane, car, train, horse, car, car, train} | Jennifer Nebergall |
| MUTTANDJEFF | Mon Apr 17, 2000 | Classic comic strip by Bud Fisher | Greg Staples |
| NAMEBRAND | Sat Dec 23, 2006 | Like fashionable apparel | Myles Callum |
| NIUE | Wed Feb 7, 1996 | Savage Island, now | Frank A. Longo |
| PEACHEMOJI | Sat Sep 21, 2024 | Butt text? | David Karp |
| PETITSFOURS | Thu Jun 1, 2023 | Small, fancy confections | David and Karen and Paul Steinberg |
| PLUMTOMATO | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | Common ingredient in pasta sauce | Mangesh Ghogre and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| RAINBOWROOM | Fri Jan 25, 2013 | Former New York City attraction with a revolving dance floor | Joe DiPietro |
| REINSPECTS | Thu Jul 19, 2012 | SPECTRES | Alan Arbesfeld |
| ROCKTHEVOTE | Sat Jul 27, 2013 | Election-related nonprofit since 1990 | John Lieb and David Quarfoot |
| ROGERMOORE | Sun May 25, 2008 | *1973-85 | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SAMEOLDSAMEOLD | Mon Aug 5, 2002 | Routine that's hard to tell apart from past routines | Manny Nosowsky |
| SCALENOTE | Thu Jan 16, 1997 | Ti | W. R. Williams |
| SEAGATE | Wed Jul 31, 2013 | Channel to the ocean | H. David Goering |
| SENSIBLY | Sat Feb 14, 1998 | Without flapdoodle | Mark Diehl |
| STRAWBERRY | Wed Mar 11, 2015 | Kool-Aid flavor | David Steinberg |
| SURFIN | Sun Jun 24, 2018 | "___ U.S.A." (1963 hit) | Timothy Polin |
| THECOMETS | Thu Jan 19, 2017 | Bill Haley's backup band | Jacob Stulberg |
| THEMOLDAU | Sat Nov 10, 2018 | Smetana composition inspired by a river | Will Nediger |
| TROUBADOURS | Thu Jul 11, 2024 | Musicians of the Middle Ages | Mat Shelden |
| UDOS | Fri Jul 30, 2010 | Japanese salad plants | Kevin G. Der |
| VINERY | Sun Dec 22, 2002 | Where grapes are grown | Frances Hansen |
| WAITREALLY | Fri Nov 8, 2024 | "Hold up, what?!" | Evans Clinchy |
| WONTHEWAR | Sun Jun 11, 2023 | Ultimately emerged victorious | Sam Ezersky |
| WRITEBACK | Fri Aug 8, 2025 | Follow to the letter? | Rafael Musa and Matthew Stock |