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 51,133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADMONISHMENT | Sun Oct 14, 2012 | Warning | Todd Gross |
| BELGIANCONGO | Sun Apr 14, 2013 | Setting of Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| BOWSERJR | Sun Mar 1, 2020 | Young antagonist in Super Mario games | Sam Trabucco |
| BROKENENGLISH | Fri Feb 23, 2007 | Difficult means of communication | Patrick Merrell |
| CARRION | Wed Jul 28, 2010 | Buzzard's fare | Howard Baker |
| CINCY | Tue Aug 1, 2006 | Bengals' home, familiarly | David Sullivan |
| DATINGSCENE | Thu Aug 21, 2003 | Singles' world | Patrick Merrell |
| DEUTERONOMY | Thu Jan 22, 2015 | Book of the Bible | Timothy Polin |
| DRYGIN | Sun May 21, 2023 | Beefeater, e.g. | Robert Ryan |
| ENDOFMESSAGE | Wed Feb 10, 2010 | [Read no further] | Ed Sessa |
| ENROLLEES | Sun Aug 28, 2022 | Matriculation group | Ori Brian |
| FLORIDAVACATION | Wed Oct 13, 2004 | What 38-Across might take | Patrick Merrell |
| FREEZETAG | Tue Sep 24, 2019 | Playground game with teams | John Guzzetta |
| HOOPED | Sat Aug 16, 2003 | Like some earrings | Manny Nosowsky |
| HOPESFOR | Wed Sep 29, 1999 | Wishes | Patrick D. Berry |
| IMPARTED | Sun Aug 28, 2005 | Made known | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| INADEEPHOLE | Fri Dec 19, 2025 | Bad place to be while gambling | Hemant Mehta |
| INHIDEF | Sat May 27, 2023 | Very clear, say, colloquially | Samuel Smalley |
| INTENTIONS | Thu Feb 18, 2021 | Designs | Zachary Spitz |
| JODYS | Sun May 26, 1996 | Singer Watley et al. | R. Ross |
| JUSTFORSHOW | Fri Mar 27, 2026 | Decorative, so to speak | Zachary David Levy |
| LASTINGMONUMENT | Sat Jun 28, 2003 | Exemplar through the ages | Robert H. Wolfe |
| LINAC | Sat Nov 21, 2020 | Machine in a particle physics lab, in brief | Sam Ezersky |
| MOONISH | Tue Jan 30, 1996 | Fickle | M. Skolsky |
| MOTTE | Mon Oct 24, 1994 | Grove of trees, in the Southwest | Sidney L. Robbins |
| NOWYOUSEEME | Sun Aug 25, 2019 | Illusionist's phrase illustrated by seven Across answers in this puzzle? | Matt Ginsberg |
| OMINOUSLY | Fri Sep 9, 2016 | In a foreboding manner | Kristian House |
| PEPPERMINTPATTY | Thu Nov 7, 1996 | Friend of Charlie Brown | G. R. Ferguson |
| PEQUOD | Mon Dec 18, 2023 | Captain Ahab's ship in "Moby-Dick" | Joe Marquez |
| PLAYBYPLAY | Mon Aug 10, 2026 | *Detailed, real-time description of events | Nate Cardin |
| POPEAFB | Sat May 1, 2004 | Mil. post in Fayetteville, N.C. | Byron Walden |
| RIGHTASRAIN | Wed Nov 11, 2015 | Perfectly fit and well | David Steinberg |
| SITSHIVA | Sat Feb 15, 2020 | Mourn, in a way | Randolph Ross |
| SOUNDSYSTEM | Sun Aug 1, 2021 | Band aid? | Matthew Stock |
| TELUGU | Fri May 15, 2026 | Language of southern India | Maddy Ziegler |
| TENANTFARMER | Fri Jul 17, 1998 | Struggling rural worker | Randolph Ross |
| TOILETTES | Sat Aug 7, 2004 | Morning routines | Patrick Berry |
| WADINGBIRD | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Pink flamingo, for one | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| WATERUNDERTHEBRIDGE | Sun Dec 17, 2023 | Past disagreements that are no longer of concern ... or each block of shaded squares in this puzzle? | Jeremy Newton |
| WHITEFLOUR | Sun Jan 26, 2025 | Gold Medal offering | Rich Proulx |