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 49,897 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGINCOURT | Fri Jan 8, 2016 | "Henry V" battle setting | Peter A. Collins |
| BALCONYSEATS | Sat Dec 29, 2018 | They're tops in the theater | Robyn Weintraub |
| BEDHOG | Tue Jan 7, 2020 | One monopolizing a mattress | Ross Trudeau |
| BESTOFSEVEN | Sat Jan 21, 2023 | Playoff format | David Distenfeld |
| BREAKTHENEWS | Mon Oct 16, 2000 | Reveal for the first time | Mitch Komro |
| BUMPYRIDE | Wed Feb 23, 2022 | Rough flight | Rose Conlon |
| COWBANE | Sat May 14, 2016 | Plant poisonous to cattle | Jeff Chen |
| DRAGRACERS | Sat Apr 17, 2021 | Zoom participants? | Leslie Rogers |
| DRCLAW | Sun Dec 9, 2018 | "Inspector Gadget" antagonist | Ross Trudeau |
| DREWBARRYMORE | Tue Sep 24, 2013 | Child actress who appeared with [circled letters] | Kevin Christian |
| EVENMONEYCHANCE | Thu Jan 25, 2007 | 50% likelihood | Manny Nosowsky |
| FRENCHANTILLES | Wed Dec 13, 2017 | Island group near Dominica | Benjamin Kramer |
| GROUNDSQUIRRELS | Sat Apr 18, 2009 | Marmots and prairie dogs | Byron Walden |
| IHADAHUNCH | Sun Jun 29, 2014 | "That's what my Spidey sense told me" | Byron Walden |
| INNIT | Wed Nov 29, 2017 | "Don't you agree?," in British lingo | Erik Agard |
| ISAIAHS | Sun Jan 9, 2005 | Jewish scholar Berlin and others | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MACARONINOODLES | Mon Oct 21, 2024 | Elbows in a grocery store | Neil Padrick Wilson |
| MAILOUT | Thu Jun 23, 2011 | Send | Ian Livengood |
| MEDIACIRCUS | Sat Apr 16, 2022 | Excessive coverage, perhaps | Hemant Mehta |
| MELFI | Sun Jan 24, 2016 | Theodore who directed "St. Vincent," 2014 | Francis Heaney and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MUSSESUP | Sun Feb 3, 2013 | Tousles | Dan Schoenholz |
| NAILBITING | Tue Feb 15, 2000 | Worrier's habit | Frances Hansen |
| NEWBORNBABIES | Thu Mar 4, 2021 | They're swaddled and coddled | Blake Slonecker |
| NEWSCRAWL | Fri Jun 27, 2008 | Ticker with headlines | Brad Wilber |
| NOEXCUSE | Sun Jul 25, 2021 | "That's just unacceptable" | Chandi Deitmer |
| PERORATES | Sat Aug 28, 1999 | Discourses | Frank Longo |
| PIECEOFPAPER | Sun May 31, 2020 | What marriage merely is, to some | Lewis Rothlein and Jeff Chen |
| REMASH | Sun Jan 16, 1994 | Pulverize the spuds some more | Ernst Theimer |
| RESERVEONESSPOT | Tue Oct 18, 2022 | Secure a seat at the table, say | Dan Schoenholz |
| SEVENYEARSINTIBET | Sun Nov 24, 2019 | Hit 1997 film condemned by the Chinese government | Frank Longo |
| SINEWAVES | Fri Feb 17, 2006 | Representation of tuning fork sounds | Trip Payne |
| SPAULDING | Sat Jan 8, 1994 | See 18-Across | Rand H. Burns |
| TEASERRATE | Wed Jan 17, 2024 | Promotion for a new credit account, maybe | Morton J. Mendelson |
| TEMPORARYRELIEF | Mon Jul 8, 1996 | What a cold remedy gives | Sidney L. Robbins |
| THARDESERT | Tue Feb 15, 1994 | Arid region of India | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| THEENDOFTHELINE | Fri Mar 22, 2002 | Terminus | Randall J. Hartman |
| TWELFTHNIGHT | Sun Dec 9, 2007 | Yuletide celebration | Patrick Blindauer |
| VAMPISH | Sat Mar 26, 2005 | Like Betty Boop | Ed Early |
| WORLDATLAS | Fri May 29, 2020 | Country album? | Sam Ezersky |
| WRECKER | Sun Sep 3, 2017 | Tow truck | Andrew Zhou |