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 51,118 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADNATE | Fri Sep 23, 1994 | Congenitally attached | Bryant White |
| ANTIGENS | Sat Apr 2, 2005 | Foreign instigators? | Byron Walden |
| AWAKENING | Fri Feb 9, 2007 | Realization | Eric Berlin |
| BADOMENS | Sat Nov 29, 2025 | The number 4 and the gift of a clock, in Chinese culture | Adrian Johnson |
| BFAS | Fri Dec 24, 1993 | Arts degs. | Merl H. Reagle |
| BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | Sun Feb 5, 2017 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? | Sam Trabucco |
| BUTIDIGRESS | Sun May 14, 2000 | Wanderer's words | Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon |
| CORKAGEFEE | Fri Aug 3, 2018 | Cab charge? | David Steinberg |
| CRIEDWOLF | Sun Jun 27, 2021 | Raised a false alarm | Ross Trudeau and Lindsey Hobbs |
| DECAFORDER | Thu Jul 1, 1999 | Light and sweet, maybe | Alan Arbesfeld |
| DISCOURAGES | Fri Aug 31, 2012 | Puts off | Patrick Berry |
| DISHARMONY | Thu Jul 23, 1998 | Jangling | Randall J. Hartman |
| DROPPEDCALL | Sun Dec 28, 2014 | Lo____y | Joe Krozel |
| ENGINESON | Sat Jan 26, 2013 | Pre-takeoff command | Raymond C. Young |
| GOESOUTWITHABANG | Thu Jul 25, 2024 | Finishes in grand style, like the answers to the starred clues? | Damon Gulczynski |
| IFNEEDBE | Thu Mar 25, 2004 | In case it's called for | David Liben-Nowell and Ryan O'Donnell |
| IMPEDIMENT | Mon Dec 22, 2014 | Roadblock | Lynn Lempel |
| ISAACBASHEVISSINGER | Sun Dec 3, 1995 | Typing tenor | Martin Schneider |
| JUNIORPROM | Sat Dec 29, 2018 | Function not intended for seniors | Robyn Weintraub |
| LIKEAKING | Sat Aug 13, 2011 | Extravagant way to live | Tim Croce |
| LIKECRAZY | Fri Apr 18, 2014 | Something awful | James Mulhern |
| MELINA | Tue May 31, 2005 | "Never on Sunday" star ___ Mercouri | Merl Reagle |
| NEBBISH | Sat Jul 17, 2004 | Wimp | Rich Norris |
| OLDPALS | Sun Jun 18, 2017 | Cronies | Sam Trabucco |
| ONONELEG | Thu Jul 20, 2017 | How a flamingo may stand | Randolph Ross |
| PARTYPLATFORMS | Tue Jun 12, 2018 | Event coordinator's shoe purchase? | Samuel A. Donaldson and Tracy Gray |
| POPMUSICIAN | Mon Feb 16, 2009 | Any of the Jonas Brothers, e.g. | David Kwong |
| PREOPS | Sat Feb 10, 2018 | Hospital sections, for short | Finn Vigeland |
| RAQUEL | Tue Mar 15, 2016 | Welch of "Myra Breckinridge" | Gordon Johnson |
| RAYONFIBER | Wed Apr 20, 2005 | Singer Charles's book about healthy eating? | Joe DiPietro |
| RESPUN | Sat Feb 25, 2006 | Like the "Wheel of Fortune" wheel, again and again | Henry Hook |
| ROMANSANDAL | Tue Nov 14, 1995 | Gladiator's wear | Gregory E. Paul |
| RONCEY | Wed Nov 15, 1995 | Baseball's Penguin | Matt Gaffney |
| SEMORDNILAPS | Sat Mar 18, 2023 | Words that form other words when read backward | Ada Nicolle |
| STORMDRAIN | Sun Jun 23, 2013 | What a gutter may lead to | Patrick Berry |
| SUEBIRD | Sat May 20, 2023 | Basketball star with five Olympic gold medals | Erica Hsiung Wojcik |
| SWC | Sun Feb 11, 1996 | U. of Texas teams play in it | Harvey Estes |
| TAMIKO | Sun Oct 16, 1994 | "A Girl Named _____" (1962 film) | Raymond Hamel |
| TONISTONE | Sun Aug 9, 2026 | First woman to play regularly in a major American men's pro baseball league | Erik Agard |
| YEAHOK | Sun Mar 6, 2022 | "Well, fine then" | Matthew Stock and Will Nediger |