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 50,430 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRUZZI | Sun Oct 5, 1997 | Region of 101-Down | Derrick Niederman |
| ANTICOLONIALIST | Sat Sep 23, 2023 | Like the writing of Chinua Achebe and Mahatma Gandhi | Robert Charlton |
| APOLOOHNO | Fri Apr 20, 2018 | Winner of eight Winter Olympics medals in the 2000s | Joel Fagliano |
| APPROVALS | Fri Oct 6, 1995 | Endorsements | Rich Norris |
| ASSESSAS | Sun Nov 28, 2010 | Deem | Jeremy Newton |
| BONESETS | Sat Jan 22, 2000 | Plants used in herbal medicine | David J. Kahn |
| COOKIESHEET | Wed Jul 30, 2014 | List of user IDs? | Jean O'Conor |
| CROSSBAR | Sun Jan 3, 2016 | It splits the uprights | David Woolf |
| EPURES | Sat Oct 14, 1995 | Architectural drawings | Alex K. Justin |
| EXPELLEE | Sat Jul 8, 2006 | Booted one | Barry C. Silk |
| FANCYPANTS | Wed Oct 12, 2016 | Pretentiously high-class | Jeff Chen |
| FBIAGENTS | Tue Apr 11, 2006 | Detectives with their HQ in D.C. | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| FIRSTTAKE | Sat Jan 12, 2008 | Recording session starter | Frederick J. Healy |
| FIXATIVE | Fri May 12, 1995 | Denture wearer's purchase | Rich Norris |
| FLIGHTDECK | Mon Oct 14, 2019 | Where planes land on an aircraft carrier | Gary Cee |
| FOOTWEAR | Tue Jan 18, 2000 | Heels and loafers | Nancy Salomon |
| FULLTILT | Sun Oct 5, 2014 | All out | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| GARDENHOE | Tue Apr 27, 2010 | Tool you can lean on | Oliver Hill |
| GAYMER | Wed Mar 11, 2020 | Portmanteau coinage for a queer-identified e-sports player, say | Erik Agard |
| GETSUPSET | Fri Dec 7, 2012 | Sees red, say | Peter Wentz |
| GETTHEMEMO | Sat Dec 13, 2025 | Be looped in | Gene Louise De Vera |
| GRANDEUR | Tue Jan 28, 2020 | Majesty | Trenton Charlson |
| GRUDGED | Sun May 11, 2014 | Resented | Peter A. Collins |
| KENYATTA | Sun Oct 26, 2008 | African nation founder Jomo ___ | Daniel C. Bryant |
| LIMPET | Tue Nov 26, 2002 | Cousin of a conch | Alan Arbesfeld |
| MEATALTERNATIVE | Sat Nov 19, 2022 | Tofu, for instance | Benji Goldsmith |
| OSCARARIAS | Sun Nov 18, 2018 | Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize | Byron Walden and Joel Fagliano |
| PEARLYWHITES | Tue Apr 21, 2020 | *Teeth, slangily | Andrew Kingsley |
| PGMOVIES | Tue Dec 2, 2025 | Family-friendly film fare | Jonathan Baude |
| PONZISCHEME | Fri Mar 23, 2012 | Source of false returns | Steven Riley |
| SEACOASTS | Tue Jul 28, 2020 | Shorelines | Ross Trudeau |
| SHININGSEA | Sun Jul 2, 1995 | See 80-Across | Alex K. Justin |
| SMEARTACTIC | Fri Apr 21, 2017 | Character assassination, for one | Damon Gulczynski |
| SOUTHEY | Thu Apr 28, 2016 | Contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge | Kurt Krauss |
| STANDUPGUY | Sat Jan 7, 2023 | He's a mensch | Adam Aaronson |
| STREWING | Fri May 21, 2010 | Tossing about | Patrick Berry |
| THERIAC | Sat Dec 26, 2009 | Onetime snake venom antidote | Kevin G. Der |
| TREEBEAR | Sat Sep 26, 1998 | Raccoon | Jerry Ferguson |
| UNLUCKYNUMBER | Sun Jun 21, 1998 | - 100 | Jim Page |
| WATKINS | Tue Mar 22, 2016 | New York's ___ Glen State Park | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |