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 51,117 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANYBODYHOME | Sun Jan 20, 2019 | Baseball scorekeeper | Richard Crowe |
| BANJUL | Sun Jan 3, 2016 | Capital of Gambia | David Woolf |
| BELOWSEALEVEL | Sun Feb 4, 2001 | SEALING WAX | Frank A. Longo |
| CHICKENTENDERS | Sun Jan 14, 2024 | Farmers? | John Kugelman |
| DARKKNIGHT | Mon Jul 30, 2012 | Alternative name for 42-Down | Rosemarie Dolan and Christopher Geach |
| DIGICAMS | Sat Jan 6, 2018 | Devices that hurt sales at Kodak | Peter Wentz |
| DUCKSOUTOFVIEW | Wed Mar 21, 2018 | Why the hunter couldn't shoot the mallards? | Laura Braunstein |
| EXCOGITATE | Sat Jun 19, 1999 | Think through | Mark Diehl |
| GANGING | Sun May 14, 2017 | ___ up on (conspiring against) | Will Nediger |
| GASCON | Sat May 2, 1998 | Braggart | Jeff Herrington |
| GASPLANET | Sun Sep 12, 2010 | Heavenly body that humans will never set foot on | Paula Gamache |
| HALVAH | Sun Aug 7, 1994 | Honeyed Turkish confection | Dean Niles |
| HESOUTTHERE | Tue Oct 31, 2023 | 2018 slasher set at a remote lake house | Kathy Lowden and Erik Piepenburg |
| INASHELL | Sun Aug 21, 2005 | Emotionally withdrawn | Byron Walden |
| INTURMOIL | Sun Jun 13, 2021 | Agitated | Stephen McCarthy |
| JETHROTULL | Mon Feb 27, 2012 | Group with the 1971 3x platinum album "Aqualung" | Bill Thompson |
| KEEPSITTOGETHER | Sat Jul 7, 2018 | Doesn't snap | Ryan McCarty |
| KIDVID | Wed Jun 12, 2024 | Children's TV, informally | Simeon Seigel |
| LEANSINTO | Fri Jun 21, 1996 | Opposes, as the wind | G. R. Ferguson |
| LEXINGTON | Mon Aug 30, 2021 | Home of the University of Kentucky | Brooke Husic |
| LORIENT | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | China and environs, to the French | Frank Longo |
| MATHTEST | Fri Jan 26, 2007 | Some problems to solve | Mike Nothnagel |
| MCMANSIONS | Fri Dec 14, 2012 | They stand out in the neighborhood | Paula Gamache |
| MEANDMYDRUM | Tue Dec 6, 2016 | Following the shaded squares, the end to a seasonal song | Ed Sessa |
| MOBILIZED | Thu Oct 12, 2017 | Mustard | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| NEOJAZZ | Sat Jan 3, 2009 | Hard bop, e.g. | Peter Wentz |
| OVARIAL | Sun May 26, 1996 | Of the lower part of a pistil | R. Ross |
| PESKIER | Sat Nov 20, 2021 | More vexing | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| ROCKCOD | Wed Jul 28, 2021 | Pacific food fish | Alex Rosen and Brad Wilber |
| SANSERIF | Sat Jun 15, 1996 | Gothic typeface: Var. | R. Ross |
| SARABANDE | Thu Sep 22, 1994 | Stately 13-Down dance | George Quincy |
| SERIALMOM | Sat Jun 12, 2010 | 1994 Kathleen Turner movie | Joe DiPietro |
| SEXCELL | Sat Sep 17, 2011 | Member of a very early union? | Peter A. Collins |
| SHARPSHOOTER | Mon Dec 6, 2010 | Annie Oakley, for one | Richard Chisholm |
| SHORTHAUL | Sun Jun 11, 2023 | Easy trucking distance | Sam Ezersky |
| SPRAYGUN | Sun Dec 4, 2016 | Aid for a big painting project | Bruce Haight |
| STOCKPILED | Fri Jun 21, 1996 | Put away for a rainy day | G. R. Ferguson |
| THROUPLE | Fri Jul 28, 2023 | Polyamory portmanteau | Rafael Musa and Hoang-Kim Vu |
| TOHAVE | Thu Jul 16, 2009 | Start of a Hemingway title | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TOUGHCROWD | Wed Oct 7, 2020 | Audience unlikely to applaud | Ross Trudeau |