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 50,636 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIENATING | Fri Sep 25, 1998 | Turning away | Mark Blakeburn |
| AMOSALONZOSTAGG | Thu Nov 23, 2000 | Innovative Chicago football coach | Louis Hildebrand |
| ANISESEED | Tue Sep 16, 2025 | Licorice-flavored spice | Jonathan Daly |
| BASEWAGE | Fri Sep 11, 2020 | It comes before overtime | Caitlin Reid and Erik Agard |
| BRUNETS | Sat Jan 11, 1997 | Some dyers | R. Norris |
| COWPASTURE | Thu Apr 3, 2008 | Place for grazing | Kevin G. Der |
| DARFUR | Wed Feb 11, 2015 | Region next to Chad | Will Treece |
| DENTALFILLING | Wed Jun 15, 2011 | What 28-Across has? | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| DRAPERS | Tue Sep 28, 2010 | Fabric dealers, to Brits | Michael Torch |
| EXCHEQUERS | Tue Feb 15, 1994 | National treasuries | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| EXPATRIOT | Thu Mar 4, 2010 | Football's Adam Vinatieri, e.g. | David J. Kahn |
| GARDENVARIETY | Wed Nov 23, 2011 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? | Ian Livengood |
| GETMILEAGEOUTOF | Fri Apr 10, 2009 | Obtain service from | Manny Nosowsky |
| GHOSTSOFTHEABYSS | Sun Mar 11, 2012 | 2003 James Cameron documentary about the 63-Across | Victor Fleming and John Dunn |
| HOWDOILOOK | Fri Jun 23, 2017 | Question often asked after twirling | James Mulhern and Ashton Anderson |
| HSU | Wed Aug 16, 2023 | Stephanie of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" | Mangesh Ghogre and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| IDEOLOGUES | Fri May 22, 2020 | Dogmatic sorts | Hal Moore |
| LEGALS | Sun May 18, 2003 | Workers with green cards | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| MADEINTHESHADE | Mon Jun 17, 2019 | On easy street | Erik Agard and Yacob Yonas |
| MADSKILLS | Mon Jul 22, 2024 | Crazy talent, slangily | Laura Dershewitz |
| MOHELS | Wed May 12, 2010 | Bris parties | Pete Muller |
| MORTS | Fri Feb 5, 1999 | Cartoonist Walker et al. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| NOWS | Mon Sep 3, 2012 | "___ the time" | C. W. Stewart |
| OYSTERCRAB | Wed Apr 6, 2016 | Chesapeake Bay delicacy | Timothy Polin |
| PAPABEARS | Tue Feb 17, 2026 | Tough-but-loving fathers, informally | Stephan Prock and Jeff Chen |
| PCLANGUAGE | Sat Oct 7, 2017 | Unslurred speech? | Byron Walden |
| POINTOFORDER | Sat Jun 14, 2014 | Call for a meeting? | Alex Vratsanos |
| PROPINQUITY | Sat Nov 12, 2005 | Kinship | Karen M. Tracey |
| REMEMBERED | Sun May 2, 2021 | Looked back on | Dan Schoenholz |
| SAILNEEDLE | Sat May 31, 2008 | Tool for sewing canvas | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SCOLDING | Sun Jul 31, 1994 | Chewing out | Richard Silvestri |
| SENIOREDITORS | Sat Dec 2, 2017 | Masthead section | Mark Diehl |
| STALEBEER | Sat Sep 20, 2025 | Drink drunk the morning after, maybe | Katie Hoody |
| STEALTHFIGHTER | Mon Jun 4, 2018 | Jet that evades radar detection | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| THEMONKEYSPAW | Mon Feb 3, 2020 | Classic horror tale by W. W. Jacobs | Michael Schlossberg |
| TOPRANK | Sun Dec 11, 2016 | Belonging to the highest level | Tom McCoy |
| TRANSANTARCTICS | Sat Dec 25, 2004 | Mt. Markham's range | Byron Walden |
| UNIONSHOP | Sat Nov 7, 2009 | Local operation? | Bob Klahn |
| WESTHAM | Sat Sep 5, 1998 | Home of soccer's United | Thomas W. Schier |
| YOULLCOMEAROUND | Sun Apr 3, 2016 | Comment to the not-yet-convinced | Natan Last |