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 50,751 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIRSUPPLY | Wed Sep 25, 2013 | *Deep-sea diver's concern | Victor Fleming and Bonnie L. Gentry |
| BLOWBY | Sun Dec 31, 1995 | Auto engine leakage | Bob Klahn |
| BOLSTERED | Sun Jan 29, 2023 | Supported | Rich Katz |
| COPPERPLATE | Tue Jun 16, 2009 | *Engraver's surface | Paula Gamache |
| EVESDIARY | Thu May 15, 2025 | Mark Twain tale narrated in the first person by a noted first woman | Simeon Seigel |
| EXACTITUDE | Sun Mar 27, 2016 | Precision | Patrick Blindauer |
| FREESPIRITS | Thu Jun 28, 2018 | Bohemian sorts | Jeff Chen |
| GODPARENTS | Thu Mar 5, 2015 | Participants at many baptisms | Jim Peredo |
| GRAVELY | Sun May 13, 2001 | How bad news may be given | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| GUMPS | Sun Nov 5, 1995 | Forrest's folks | Dean Niles |
| HANDILY | Fri Dec 21, 2007 | Without apparent effort | Patrick Berry |
| HIGHERPOWER | Thu Nov 5, 2015 | Divine being ... or a hint to 17-, 31- and 48-Across | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| HOLDYOURHEADHIGH | Sun Sep 28, 2014 | "Don't be ashamed" | Todd Gross |
| HUMORIST | Thu Apr 8, 2004 | Al Franken, for one | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LATCHONTO | Sat Jan 4, 2014 | Take up enthusiastically | Kyle Dolan |
| MINDSEYE | Wed Feb 23, 2022 | Imagination | Rose Conlon |
| MISSAMERICAPROTEST | Sun May 20, 2001 | March in Atlantic City? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| MISSMARMELSTEIN | Tue Jan 18, 1994 | Song by 11-Down | Joy L. Wouk |
| MODESTFEE | Thu Feb 4, 2016 | Reasonable charge | Jeff Chen |
| NIPPEDAT | Sun Apr 19, 2015 | Went for, puppy-style | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| NODINAGREEMENT | Thu Feb 13, 2003 | ACCOR | Joe DiPietro |
| OCCULTIST | Tue Jul 30, 2013 | Witch, e.g. | Peter A. Collins |
| ORDAINING | Wed Nov 12, 2014 | Making a father of | Daniel Landman |
| PAPERTRAINED | Mon Dec 19, 2022 | Like a puppy who's learned where to "go" | Jennifer Nutt |
| PAYSATTENTION | Fri Apr 21, 2006 | Focuses | Manny Nosowsky |
| POLICESERGEANTS | Fri Apr 15, 2011 | Constables' superiors | Patrick Berry |
| PSALMIC | Sat Mar 18, 1995 | Like David's writing | Manny Nosowsky |
| QUICKFREEZE | Sat Dec 17, 2011 | Way to preserve food freshness | Tom Heilman |
| SAIDOKTO | Fri Jun 25, 2010 | Accepted | Robin Schulman and Byron Walden |
| SEDATIVES | Sat Jan 24, 2015 | They may put you to sleep | Kevin G. Der |
| SHEPHERDSCANE | Tue Sep 1, 2009 | See 37-Across | Steven Ginzburg |
| SPENDY | Sat Mar 14, 2020 | Costing a great deal, informally | Peter Wentz |
| STEPFOUR | Sat Apr 14, 2012 | "Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," in Alcoholics Anonymous | Mark Diehl |
| TIRETREAD | Sat Mar 19, 2022 | It gets bald over time | Ryan McCarty |
| TWOONES | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | Change for a Jefferson | Byron Walden |
| VEGANPIZZA | Thu Mar 9, 2017 | Pie made with dairy-free cheese, maybe | Jeremy Newton |
| WALKERS | Fri Oct 7, 2005 | Ones refusing transportation? | Manny Nosowsky |
| WEOWNIT | Sat Sep 29, 2018 | 2013 hit for 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa | David Steinberg |
| YOGISM | Sun Feb 12, 2023 | Tranquil discipline | Christina Iverson and Samuel A. Donaldson |
| ZIMBABWEAN | Sat Oct 21, 2017 | Dweller between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers | Samuel A. Donaldson and Brad Wilber |