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 50,732 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVERAGEAMERICAN | Fri Mar 15, 2013 | Peoria resident's representation | Joe Krozel |
| CALMA | Sun Feb 6, 2005 | Serenity, in Seville | Joel Kaplow |
| CIRCUITRIDER | Sun Apr 24, 1994 | Itinerant minister | Louis Sabin |
| COPYEDITOR | Tue Oct 1, 2024 | Professional proofreader ("Over there, in the snow! That had to be something, right?!") | Kevin Curry and Jeff Chen |
| DARKVICTORY | Tue Jan 6, 2009 | 1939 Bette Davis drama | John Greenman |
| ETYMO | Sat Jan 8, 1994 | Linguistic origins | Rand H. Burns |
| EXPOSTFACTO | Tue Jul 5, 2016 | Retroactively, at law | Jules Markey |
| FIFTYFOUR | Sat Nov 12, 1994 | Actress Ullmann, in old Rome? | Bryant White |
| GALIOT | Sun Dec 10, 1995 | Small trading vessel | Jim Page |
| GRUBBY | Fri May 17, 2019 | Squalid | Adam Fromm |
| HAMSTRING | Sat Mar 5, 2011 | It may be pulled on a field | Randolph Ross |
| INCEST | Tue Mar 28, 2000 | Theme of "Oedipus Rex" | Fred Piscop |
| KTWO | Sat Jun 19, 2010 | Peak on the Pakistani-Chinese border | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| LOOKWHATIFOUND | Sun Mar 13, 2016 | Discoverer's cry | Tom McCoy |
| MAMACASSELLIOT | Mon Feb 28, 2011 | "Heavyweight" of 1960s folk/pop | Mike Buckley |
| MIKEPENCE | Wed Oct 28, 2020 | Frequent "S.N.L." role for Beck Bennett | Peter Gordon |
| MILLIONTH | Sat Sep 28, 2013 | Like a customer who may get special notice | Joe Krozel |
| NATURALLAKE | Sun Dec 11, 2011 | Body of water in a volcanic crater, for one | Timothy Polin |
| NIGGARD | Sun Mar 14, 2004 | Stingy person | Craig Kasper |
| NORDSTROMS | Sun Jun 21, 2020 | Department stores since 1901 | Byron and Harrison Walden |
| ODU | Sun Jun 14, 2015 | Sch. in Norfolk, Va. | Randolph Ross |
| ONFEED | Sun Jul 7, 1996 | How some hogs are raised | R. H. Wolfe |
| POLITICALJUNKIE | Tue Dec 7, 2021 | Close follower of the "horse race" | Margaret Seikel |
| POSTSALES | Sat Dec 12, 2015 | Part of a business that might include invoicing, payment, updates and equipment maintenance | Byron Walden |
| PROGRESSO | Fri Dec 20, 2019 | Big canned soup brand | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| RAKESITIN | Mon May 20, 2024 | Earns tons of money | Jack Scherban |
| RARITIES | Tue Apr 18, 2017 | They come along once in a blue moon | Bruce Haight |
| RITACOOLIDGE | Sun Feb 14, 1999 | Pop singer known as "The Delta Lady" | Elizabeth Gorski |
| RUNAWAYJURY | Mon Oct 21, 2013 | John Cusack thriller based on a Grisham novel | Gary Cee |
| SEDATIVE | Sat May 22, 1999 | Hospital administration | A. J. Santora |
| SHARONS | Sun Feb 8, 2004 | Ariel and others | Randolph Ross |
| SIDEEYES | Fri Oct 31, 2025 | Suspicious looks | Juliana Tringali Golden |
| SOTHEBY | Wed Apr 15, 2015 | Auction house eponym | Joel Fagliano |
| SPELUNKING | Thu Jan 3, 2019 | Underground activity | Timothy Polin |
| TEMPLES | Sun Jan 6, 2019 | Many East Asian World Heritage Sites | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| TENDERLY | Fri Jun 10, 2011 | 1950s million-selling song that begins "The evening breeze caressed the trees ..." | Patrick Berry |
| THIEVISH | Fri Apr 27, 2001 | Not to be trusted | Mark Diehl |
| TONEROWS | Sat Jul 25, 2015 | Modern composer's constructions | Kevin G. Der |
| WOODNYMPH | Fri Sep 5, 2008 | Butterfly with black-and-white eyespots | Kevin G. Der |
| ZUMA | Fri May 17, 2013 | Jacob ___, South African president beginning in 2009 | Josh Knapp |