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 51,088 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHEN | Sun Dec 23, 2001 | "Two owls and ___ ...": Lear | Frances Hansen |
| ASIATICS | Sat Sep 24, 1994 | Frederic Prokosch novel, with "The" | Manny Nosowsky |
| BLAZED | Mon Oct 28, 1996 | Burned brightly | R. Norris |
| CARYS | Sun Sep 25, 2005 | Grant and others | Matt Skoczen |
| CATATONIC | Sat Sep 22, 2007 | Beyond oblivious | Mark Diehl |
| CHEMICALTESTING | Wed Mar 30, 2016 | Some lab work | Andrew Reynolds |
| CLOSINGASALE | Sun Mar 1, 2009 | *Good and bad for a marketer | Robert W. Harris |
| CRUNCHBERRY | Mon May 23, 1994 | Cereal "fruit" | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| EIDMUBARAK | Fri Jul 7, 2023 | Festive Islamic greeting | Adrian Johnson |
| ETAMESON | Fri Mar 22, 2013 | Electrically neutral subatomic particle | Tim Croce |
| FALLCOLLECTIONS | Fri Jan 2, 1998 | Designers' lines | Alex K. Justin |
| FMSTEREO | Sat Jan 27, 2018 | Radio option with improved sound quality | Mark Diehl |
| GATEWAYS | Tue Dec 18, 2001 | Entry points | Sarah Keller |
| GUNSHIP | Sun Dec 8, 1996 | Armada component | A. J. Santora |
| HALOHALO | Tue Jan 31, 2023 | Crushed-ice dessert with a reduplicative name | Erik Agard |
| HUMBOLDTSGIFT | Tue Oct 29, 1996 | Saul Bellow's Pulitzer-winning novel | R. J. Hartman |
| IMBUYING | Fri Sep 15, 2017 | "It's on me" | Damon Gulczynski |
| INTERSECTS | Fri Jul 29, 2016 | Cuts through | John Guzzetta |
| LAWNCARE | Sat Feb 4, 2012 | Business that's always cutting back? | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Caleb Madison |
| LIBBERS | Sat Dec 17, 2005 | Some lefties | Patrick Berry |
| LOTNUMBER | Fri Oct 1, 2004 | Auction info | Bob Peoples |
| MARKEDINCREASES | Thu Dec 28, 1995 | Like tie-dyed clothes? | Cathy Millhauser |
| OKELYDOKELY | Sat Apr 18, 2015 | All right, to 42-Across | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| ONTHEFIRSTCOUNT | Mon Sep 28, 1998 | Judge's query to a jury | Robert Dillman |
| PLASTICSHEETS | Sun May 3, 2026 | Moisture barrier supplies | Mark Diehl |
| PRINTERINK | Sat Mar 16, 2019 | It comes in cartridges | Andrew J. Ries |
| RESERVEDSEAT | Sat Apr 6, 2024 | Book it! | Byron Walden |
| ROADGANGS | Fri May 10, 2002 | Some work parties | Manny Nosowsky |
| SHEPHERDSCANE | Tue Sep 1, 2009 | See 37-Across | Steven Ginzburg |
| SIPHONING | Wed Feb 10, 2016 | Stealing, as gasoline | John Guzzetta |
| SOBRIETY | Sat Jul 29, 1995 | Kind of test | Charles E. Gersch |
| SOUTHBEACH | Fri Jan 30, 2026 | Florida setting for "The Birdcage" | Robyn Weintraub |
| SPINORSOLVE | Mon Oct 11, 2004 | "Wheel of Fortune" phrase | Jim Hyres |
| STEVECANYON | Fri Sep 19, 1997 | Comics hero since 1947 | Rich Norris |
| TULA | Tue Sep 23, 1997 | Noted site of ancient Mexican ruins | Nancy Salomon |
| UNEMBELLISHED | Sun Jun 23, 1996 | Sans ornamentation | F. Hansen |
| VEBLEN | Sat Oct 20, 2007 | Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" | Patrick Berry |
| WAUGH | Thu Jan 10, 2013 | Novelist whose first wife had the same first name, curiously | Kevan Choset |
| WINKYFACE | Tue Feb 27, 2024 | This emoticon: ;-) | Nate Cardin |
| YOUNGMC | Fri Dec 23, 2022 | Co-writer of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" | Brandon Koppy |