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 50,957 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVT | Mon Jul 11, 1994 | Paid promotion: Abbr. | Sidney L. Robbins |
| ALEFS | Wed Mar 20, 1996 | Hebrew A's | G. Newman |
| AMERRY | Sun Aug 20, 2000 | "...___ old soul" | Charles M. Deber |
| AMSTERDAMAVENUE | Fri Mar 24, 2023 | Manhattan thoroughfare named for New York's Dutch roots | Blake Slonecker |
| APOCALYPSENOW | Wed Dec 8, 2010 | 1979 film with Capt. Willard and Col. Kurtz | Mike Nothnagel |
| ARGENTINEAN | Sat Aug 4, 2001 | Sabatini or Vilas | Randolph Ross |
| BARONMUNCHAUSEN | Fri Jun 27, 2014 | Storied storyteller | Peter A. Collins |
| BRILLIG | Thu Apr 8, 2010 | *4:00 in the afternoon | Matt Ginsberg |
| BUNKERS | Fri Jan 29, 1999 | Tiger traps? | Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon |
| CANTFAIL | Sat Apr 8, 2017 | Guaranteed-to-fly | Jeff Chen |
| CARJACKER | Sat Feb 7, 1998 | Motorist's menace | Frank Longo |
| CROSSOVERARTIST | Fri Mar 24, 2023 | Pop star with country roots, say | Blake Slonecker |
| DOAN | Sat May 8, 2004 | Druggist for whom some commercial pills are named | Bob Peoples |
| EASTGERMANY | Fri Aug 24, 2007 | Country that won the most medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics | Patrick Berry |
| EDUCATEDGUESSES | Wed Dec 3, 1997 | Suppositions | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| ESTIMABLY | Thu Dec 7, 2000 | So as to deserve admiration | Henry Hook |
| EXSQUEEZEME | Fri Oct 15, 2021 | Cutesy "I beg your pardon?" | Ashton Anderson |
| GRAFF | Thu Apr 24, 2003 | "Mr. Belvedere" co-star | Paula Gamache |
| GUERRERO | Thu Sep 15, 2016 | Taste of Mexico | Ian Livengood |
| HANGINGON | Sat Jan 28, 2017 | Not dead yet | Damon Gulczynski |
| HELLOSTRANGER | Mon Oct 30, 2006 | Comment upon bumping into an old friend, #1 | Nancy Salomon |
| HOTANDHEAVY | Sun Nov 27, 2011 | Full of strong feelings | Jeff Chen |
| HUMIDITY | Thu Jun 12, 2014 | What a hygrometer measures | Mark Feldman |
| JAMIROQUAI | Sat Apr 10, 2010 | Acid jazz band with the 1996 hit "Virtual Insanity" | Kevin G. Der |
| JOCKEYBOX | Sat Sep 25, 1999 | Truck's glove compartment | David J. Kahn |
| KIDSISTERS | Fri Apr 19, 2013 | Alex P. Keaton and Marcia Brady each had two | Ned White |
| MUCKY | Wed Jun 21, 2017 | Covered with sludge | Bruce Haight |
| NINEINCHNAILS | Mon Jun 24, 2002 | Rock band with the platinum album "The Downward Spiral" | Trip Payne |
| OPENRANGE | Thu Aug 25, 2016 | Area to roam | Andrew Zhou |
| OUTBUY | Sat Feb 4, 1995 | Purchase more than | Manny Nosowsky |
| PAHLAVI | Sun Mar 31, 1996 | Iranian royal name | J. Savage |
| PALMISTRY | Sun Aug 6, 1995 | Handyman's work? | Manny Nosowsky |
| SALEMOR | Tue Oct 24, 2023 | State capital north of Sacramento, CA | Daniel Grinberg |
| SECRETPACT | Sat Dec 14, 2024 | Under-the-table alliance | Owen Bergstein |
| TEACHEREDITIONS | Tue Jan 5, 2010 | *Textbooks for instructors | C. W. Stewart |
| THESCOTTISHPLAY | Sun Feb 2, 2014 | Superstitious thespian's name for a work of Shakespeare ... from which 21-, 23-, 37-, 58- and 60-Down all come | Dick Shlakman and Jeff Chen |
| TOAHALT | Sun Oct 23, 2011 | How some cars screech | Joe DiPietro |
| VEGETABLETALLOW | Thu Dec 14, 2000 | Soapmaking substance | Peter Gordon |
| VEGETATIVE | Fri May 12, 1995 | Kind of state | Rich Norris |
| WENTFIFTYFIFTY | Sun Oct 12, 2025 | Split something equally [24 in.] | Michael Schlossberg |