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 50,868 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVISORS | Tue Sep 29, 2020 | Cabinet members, to the president | Ricky Cruz |
| AMATEURASTRONOMER | Sun Dec 19, 2010 | Many an avid observer of a 125-Across | Kevin G. Der |
| BADMOUTHS | Fri Jul 28, 2023 | Trashes | Rafael Musa and Hoang-Kim Vu |
| BRAKEPEDAL | Mon Dec 22, 2014 | It may bring you to a screeching halt | Lynn Lempel |
| BYALENGTH | Sun Jun 7, 2015 | "But the winner is ... Inseam ___!" | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| CAMEOUTSWINGING | Tue Dec 10, 2019 | At the big brawl, the jazz musician ... | Eric Berlin |
| CAVINGIN | Tue Mar 26, 2013 | Relenting after a standoff | Samuel A. Donaldson and Doug Peterson |
| DISSENTER | Thu Feb 18, 1999 | One in the minority | Robert H. Wolfe |
| EXTREMISM | Thu May 5, 1994 | Ultra credo | Mel Taub |
| FLYBYNIGHT | Sun Oct 26, 2025 | Awesome after dark? (Gen X) | Gary Larson and Doug Peterson |
| GALENAS | Wed Aug 21, 2002 | Lead ores | Joel Kaplow |
| GETSINTOAPICKLE | Fri Apr 5, 2002 | Encounters trouble | Peter Gordon |
| GOBBLEUP | Wed Aug 27, 2025 | Devour | Zhou Zhang |
| HAVENTWEMET | Fri Jul 14, 2006 | Party line? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| HELLEN | Sun Feb 13, 1994 | Greeks' ancestor | Cathy Millhauser |
| HYPERLINK | Fri Apr 16, 2021 | It takes you to another site | Tom Pepper |
| IFIMUST | Thu Apr 23, 2026 | "Assuming there's no other option for me ..." | Zhou Zhang and Kevin Curry |
| ITSANOBRAINER | Thu Oct 28, 2021 | Reason the zombies are, of course, skipping the empty house? | Alan Massengill |
| KOMODODRAGON | Tue Dec 29, 2020 | Largest lizard on earth (up to 10 feet long) | Matthew Trout |
| LINCOLNCENTER | Thu May 30, 2002 | Home to the Juilliard School | Peter Gordon |
| LOWPRICED | Sun Feb 24, 2002 | Economical | Manny Nosowsky |
| MEGACHURCH | Sat Sep 18, 2021 | Home of a massive flock | Ryan McCarty |
| MIMERS | Fri Jan 23, 2015 | Quiet parrots | Ed Sessa |
| NUMLOCK | Tue Jan 26, 2016 | Key near the upper-right corner of a PC keyboard | Sam Ezersky |
| OUTATIME | Tue Apr 7, 2020 | DeLorean license plate in "Back to the Future" | Trent H. Evans |
| PAULRYAN | Wed Jan 23, 2013 | P.R. man? | Joel Fagliano |
| PREFERENCE | Sun Feb 13, 1994 | First choice | Cathy Millhauser |
| PUZZLESOLVER | Sun Dec 5, 1993 | You, now | Manny Nosowsky |
| REDPERCH | Sun Nov 10, 2002 | Rosefish by another name | Cathy Millhauser |
| ROGEROVERANDOUT | Fri Aug 27, 2004 | Communication ender | Manny Nosowsky |
| SCAMPERING | Sat Aug 21, 1999 | Like kids in a playground | Charles E. Gersch |
| STARWIPE | Sat Aug 16, 2014 | Tacky television transition | Peter Broda |
| TABLELEAF | Tue Apr 26, 2005 | Holiday dinner insert, perhaps | Sarah Keller |
| TESCO | Tue Oct 7, 2025 | Major British grocery chain | Corry Cropper |
| TIMEALONE | Thu Sep 25, 2003 | Soul searcher's need | Patrick Merrell |
| VEXERS | Thu Feb 5, 2009 | Annoying types | David J. Kahn |
| VOYAGER | Tue Nov 8, 2011 | First spacecraft to reach Uranus and Neptune | Scott Atkinson |
| WESTMONROE | Wed Jul 8, 2009 | Louisiana city named for the fifth U.S. president | Tim Wescott |
| WILLIAMSCOLLEGE | Fri Jul 2, 1999 | Site of the oldest U.S. observatory | Randolph Ross |
| YETTOSEE | Sat Jul 10, 2010 | Not taken in | Joe DiPietro |