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 50,617 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMENDMENTI | Sat Jan 8, 2011 | Its first word is "Congress" | Will Nediger |
| BLANKTILE | Wed Jun 18, 2014 | What you'd need to play 26-, 29-, 43- or 45-Across | Amy Johnson |
| BRADLEE | Sat Dec 17, 2016 | Ben ___, legendary Washington Post editor | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| CANTWE | Fri Jan 31, 2025 | "What's stopping us?" | Adrian Johnson |
| CLOSEUPMAGIC | Fri Sep 3, 2021 | Show of hands? | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Paolo Pasco |
| COMPANYCARD | Sun Oct 19, 2025 | Business traveler's convenience | Daniel Grinberg |
| DIAGNOSETHEPROBLEM | Thu Jun 24, 2010 | Find out what's wrong | John Farmer |
| ELIXIROFQUIETUDE | Thu Apr 4, 2024 | 57-Across, per E.B. White | Kevin Curry |
| ETTO | Thu Jun 19, 2008 | Suffix with palm | Joe Krozel |
| FAILINGS | Tue Sep 23, 2003 | Personal faults | Nancy Salomon and Gail Grabowski |
| FREIGHTS | Thu Apr 11, 2002 | Transportation charges | Greg Staples |
| FROTHING | Sun Dec 21, 2025 | Rabid in appearance | David Kwong |
| GRIFTER | Sun Nov 27, 2022 | Con artist | Adam Wagner |
| HALFOF | Mon Jun 9, 1997 | What "hemi-" means | Thomas W. Schier |
| HELLORHIGHWATER | Wed Feb 5, 2014 | *Any foreseeable difficulty | Tracy Gray |
| HINDERERS | Sat May 15, 2004 | Roadblocks | Byron Walden |
| HULKOUT | Sun Dec 27, 2009 | Become enraged, as a comic book figure | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| IAMDRINKINGTHESTARS | Sun Dec 27, 2009 | Purported cry from 100-Across upon discovering this puzzle's subject | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| IMMIES | Sun May 13, 2001 | Playing marbles resembling a 43-Down | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| JOHNHUGHES | Tue Sep 18, 2018 | "Sixteen Candles" director, 1984 | Greg Johnson |
| JOTTER | Fri May 1, 2015 | Notepad user | David Steinberg |
| MIDDLEMARCH | Wed Jun 14, 2017 | 1871 Eliot novel | Andrew Zhou |
| MIDDLEWATCH | Thu Dec 15, 2011 | Midnight to 4 a.m., at sea | Jim Hilger |
| MINGLE | Mon Jan 24, 2022 | Socialize at a party | John Guzzetta |
| MUSSUP | Thu Aug 24, 2006 | Tousle | Gary Steinmehl |
| MYDEARWATSON | Tue Apr 25, 2006 | See 18-Across | Kevan Choset |
| NOBODIES | Tue Dec 24, 1996 | People who don't count | E. C. Gorski |
| PENTATHLON | Mon Sep 2, 2019 | Summer Olympics contest whose participants do the ends of the answers to the starred clues | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PUTH | Sat Jan 24, 2026 | Charlie with the 2016 hit "We Don't Talk Anymore" | Adrian Johnson and Ryan McCarty |
| SAGGIER | Wed Dec 9, 2020 | More in need of a lift? | Owen Travis and Jeff Chen |
| SIMONCOWELL | Fri May 8, 2015 | Fox hunt leader of old | Ian Livengood |
| SPILLTHEBEANS | Thu Sep 10, 2015 | Blab ... or a literal hint to completing five answers in this puzzle | Tracy Gray |
| SPINKICK | Tue Mar 30, 2021 | 360° martial arts maneuver | Alex Rosen and Brad Wilber |
| STANDFOR | Sat Jul 5, 1997 | Tolerate | Rich Norris |
| TAKESDRUGS | Sun Sep 18, 2016 | Pops some pills, say | Jeremy Newton |
| THELOOKINGGLASS | Thu Jan 17, 2019 | What Alice goes through to find "Jabberwocky" printed backward | Ross Trudeau |
| TRUMBO | Fri May 5, 2017 | Title role for Bryan Cranston in a 2015 biopic | Patrick Berry |
| TWOFOOTER | Sun Jul 22, 2007 | Easy putt, say | David Levinson Wilk |
| WHATSIS | Sun Jan 29, 2006 | Thingy | Rich Norris |
| WILKES | Tue Jun 30, 2015 | Assassin John ___ Booth | Susan Gelfand |