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 50,376 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDID | Sun Jan 30, 1994 | Warlord in the news | Alex K. Justin |
| BAITSHOPS | Sat Feb 2, 2013 | Grub sellers | Gareth Bain |
| BAREDITALL | Thu Jan 8, 2009 | Stripped | Joe DiPietro |
| BODYARMOR | Thu Jan 10, 2013 | Military protection | Kevan Choset |
| BUMSAROUND | Tue Mar 11, 2014 | Idles | Mel Rosen |
| CHRISTMASCAROLS | Mon Dec 19, 1994 | Songs sung from house to house | Sidney L. Robbins |
| CYBERFRIEND | Tue Jul 28, 2020 | Chat room pal | Ross Trudeau |
| FOLKART | Sat Apr 8, 2017 | Grandma Moses' output | Jeff Chen |
| GENERALINFORMATION | Sun Jun 14, 2015 | Army V.I.P. at a military parade? | Randolph Ross |
| GLIM | Sun Jun 11, 2006 | Light | Maxwell H. D. Johnson Jr. |
| GOTTENIN | Fri Sep 27, 2013 | Been chosen, as for office | Peter A. Collins |
| GRASPEDATSTRAWS | Fri Mar 15, 1996 | What tots did in the malt shop? | A. J. Santora |
| HARDUP | Thu Apr 23, 2009 | Indigent | Steve Dobis |
| HELPDESKS | Thu Oct 11, 2007 | Computer technicians' positions | E. J. Platt |
| HOMEATLAST | Fri Jan 19, 2024 | Words after a long day | Jacob McDermott |
| ICARIA | Sat Mar 8, 2003 | Failed utopian community of 1840's Illinois | Patrick Berry |
| IMAGIST | Sat May 8, 2004 | Ezra Pound, e.g. | Bob Peoples |
| IMITABLE | Tue Feb 3, 1998 | Worthy of copying | Nancy Salomon |
| INULIN | Tue Aug 23, 2016 | Starchy substance found in some plant roots | Joel Fagliano |
| LAPFUL | Sat Aug 19, 1995 | Squirming baby, sometimes | Bryant White |
| LEFTLANECLOSED | Tue Mar 27, 2007 | Second sign of a highway headache | Lucy Gardner Anderson |
| LIZAMINNELLI | Tue Jul 2, 2019 | Actress with the same initials as Linda Marolla, her role in "Arthur" | Peter Gordon |
| NEONGREEN | Wed Aug 8, 2012 | Baylor basketball uniform color | Peter A. Collins |
| NOONEON | Thu Oct 30, 2025 | What every baseball inning starts with | Howard Neuthaler |
| OSCARARIAS | Sun Nov 18, 2018 | Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize | Byron Walden and Joel Fagliano |
| PEDIGREES | Thu May 13, 2021 | Breeders' documents | Natan Last, Andy Kravis and The J.A.S.A. Crossword Class |
| PORTLANDCEMENT | Sat Mar 12, 1994 | Building material first made in Dorsetshire, England | Rand H. Burns |
| POSADAS | Sat Jun 28, 1997 | Spanish inns | Bob Klahn |
| REBREW | Sun Jan 8, 2006 | Use over, as tea leaves | Michael Ashley |
| REGAUGED | Sat Oct 14, 2023 | Tested, as a cask, to see how much whisky remains | Byron Walden |
| RUDDIER | Sun Feb 7, 1999 | More rubicund | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| SEMIAXIS | Sat Apr 2, 2005 | One of a pair in an ellipse | Byron Walden |
| SEXLIFE | Sat Jul 26, 2025 | Possible topic for a couples therapist | Adam Levav |
| SHOTSELECTION | Tue Mar 2, 2021 | Jägermeister or Fireball? | Ross Trudeau |
| SNOWYEGRET | Sun Apr 20, 2014 | Bird whose feathers were once prized by milliners | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| STEELCAGE | Sat Jul 14, 2018 | Protection from a shark, maybe | Kameron Austin Collins |
| WATERDOG | Sat Jan 13, 2018 | Newfoundland or golden retriever | Alan DerKazarian |
| WECANWORKITOUT | Mon Jun 18, 2012 | 1965 song with the lyric "Think of what you're saying" | Peter A. Collins |
| WIGGED | Tue Aug 22, 2000 | Like a London jurist | Ed Early |
| ZOLTAN | Sun Dec 14, 2014 | Korda who directed "Sahara" | Jim Peredo |