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 51,045 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCOSTED | Mon Jul 2, 2001 | Confronted | Sarah Keller |
| AIDANDABET | Thu Mar 31, 2016 | Double back? | Ellen Leuschner and Jeff Chen |
| AMYLNITRITE | Mon Feb 24, 2014 | Chemical compound in "poppers" | Adam G. Perl |
| ANTIRACIST | Fri Nov 14, 2025 | "How to Be an ___" (book by Ibram X. Kendi) | Malaika Handa |
| ARLENS | Sun Dec 9, 2007 | Sen. Specter and others | Patrick Blindauer |
| BLOODTIES | Sun Oct 31, 2010 | 1986 Brad Davis film | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BRAV | Sun Apr 28, 2002 | Good: Ger. | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| COMPAQCENTER | Thu Jan 12, 2012 | Old name of the San Jose Sharks' arena | Gareth Bain |
| CONFETTI | Fri Aug 12, 2011 | It may come down after a win | Julian Lim |
| FEDERALESE | Fri Jul 9, 1999 | Bureaucratic buzzwords | Ingrid Truemper |
| FLICKS | Thu Mar 14, 1996 | Finger movements | R. Silvestri |
| FREELANCER | Sun Nov 24, 2002 | Charitable surgeon? | Nancy Salomon and Lee Glickstein |
| HOMOGENEITY | Sun Jan 19, 2020 | Lack of variation | Victor Barocas |
| JUSTICEGINSBURG | Tue Jun 30, 2020 | Subject of this puzzle, who once said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" | Zachary David Levy |
| LYCO | Sun Dec 17, 1995 | Wolf: Prefix | Dean Niles |
| MANDAMUS | Thu Aug 29, 2002 | Court order | William Schaub |
| MEALIE | Fri Feb 27, 2004 | Ear of Indian corn | Myles Callum |
| MISSOURIANS | Fri Dec 4, 2015 | Their state song is a waltz | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| MORGANS | Thu Mar 27, 1997 | Certain riding horses | Alex Vaughn |
| NOMEALASKA | Fri Feb 11, 2011 | Its newspaper is the Nugget | Adam Cohen |
| OFFBASE | Sat Aug 21, 2010 | Wrong | Barry C. Silk |
| OLEGCASSINI | Fri May 14, 1999 | "In My Own Fashion" autobiographer | Frank Longo |
| OUTWORK | Sat Nov 19, 2022 | Show up in labor? | Benji Goldsmith |
| PARTEDCOMPANY | Sun Jul 13, 2003 | Description of 6- and 109-Across | Randolph Ross |
| PHIDIAS | Tue Feb 15, 2000 | Noted Parthenon sculptor | Frances Hansen |
| PILEUS | Sun May 11, 2003 | Mushroom cap | Patrick Berry |
| QUEENVICTORIA | Fri May 24, 2019 | So-called "Grandmother of Europe," born 5/24/1819 | Stanley Newman |
| RECOOL | Tue Jan 28, 2003 | Ice down again | Christina Houlihan |
| ROMANTICISM | Fri Jan 15, 1999 | Chopin's style | John Wolting |
| ROSTROPOVICH | Thu Sep 16, 2010 | 20th-century master of the [circled letters] | Joey Weissbrot, Brown University '11 |
| RUBRICS | Fri Sep 30, 2005 | Manuscript headings | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| SCOFFAT | Thu Aug 2, 2007 | Jeer | Robert Dillman |
| SEIN | Sat Aug 22, 1998 | 1993 best seller "___-Language" | David J. Kahn |
| SOANE | Fri Jun 21, 1996 | English architect Sir John | G. R. Ferguson |
| SPYDOM | Wed Nov 18, 2009 | World of espionage | Paula Gamache |
| SWEARWORDS | Sat Jul 17, 2010 | They often fly out during an explosion | Mark Diehl |
| TIGERSMILK | Sun Sep 13, 2015 | Nutrition bar introduced in the 1960s | Joe DiPietro |
| TOAHAIR | Fri Aug 28, 2009 | Right in every detail | David Quarfoot |
| WHATTHEHECK | Fri Feb 23, 2007 | Comment of abandon | Patrick Merrell |
| WONDERMENT | Tue Nov 1, 1994 | Awe | Christopher Page |