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 50,606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDALL | Sat Nov 18, 2006 | Ending words of inclusiveness | Victor Fleming |
| BARTENDERS | Sat Feb 9, 2013 | Ones who are counter-productive? | Peter Wentz |
| BIGGIE | Thu Nov 25, 2021 | Rapper who had an infamous rivalry with Tupac | Chase Dittrich |
| BIGSAM | Sat Aug 27, 2005 | Tara's foreman, in "Gone With the Wind" | Byron Walden |
| BOOKATRIP | Thu Nov 21, 2013 | Make some travel plans | Jules P. Markey |
| CHICKENLIVERED | Tue Jun 5, 2018 | Cowardly | Peter Gordon |
| CLEVELANDBROWNS | Mon Dec 9, 2019 | Only N.F.L. team that doesn't have a logo on its helmets | Ellis Hay |
| CUDDLEBUDDY | Fri Nov 20, 2020 | Someone to snuggle with | Kameron Austin Collins |
| DURBAN | Sun Mar 14, 2010 | South African city of 2.5+ million | Caleb Madison |
| EARNSANAME | Sat Jul 1, 2017 | Becomes well known | David Phillips |
| ENVOYS | Wed Nov 7, 2007 | Embassy figures | Richard Chisholm |
| FIRER | Fri Nov 9, 2007 | Personnel director, at times | Henry Hook |
| GOALSETTING | Mon Sep 25, 2023 | Preplanning activity | Lynn Lempel |
| HITTHEHIGHWAY | Tue May 10, 2005 | Split | Nancy Salomon |
| HOPELESSCAUSE | Mon Mar 23, 2020 | What a last true believer might believe in | Ed Sessa |
| INFLUXES | Mon May 30, 2011 | Streams of arrivals | Michael Barnhart |
| JUSTAPHASE | Mon Aug 3, 2020 | The terrible twos, e.g. (one hopes!) ... or the start of 17-, 22-, 36- or 45-Across? | Eric Bornstein |
| JUSTWAR | Fri Oct 3, 2003 | Topic of a St. Augustine treatise, with "the" | Manny Nosowsky |
| KEEPA | Sun May 2, 2004 | ___ low profile | Derrick Niederman |
| LASTMANONEARTH | Mon Sep 19, 2022 | *Whom one might not marry no matter what! | Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| MINIVANS | Sat Jul 25, 2015 | Sliding door locales | Kevin G. Der |
| MONTHLYRENT | Fri Sep 5, 2003 | Landlord's entitlement | Manny Nosowsky |
| NATURALLAW | Mon Aug 16, 2021 | Universal code of ethics | Freddie Cheng |
| NBW | Fri Oct 27, 2000 | Helmsman's heading | Manny Nosowsky |
| NHLGAME | Wed Sep 5, 2018 | Stanley Cup matchup, e.g. | Amanda Chung, Karl Ni and Erik Agard |
| NOTWITHSTANDING | Fri Sep 29, 1995 | Anyway | Manny Nosowsky |
| OGIVES | Sun Aug 28, 1994 | Statistical graphs | Randolph Ross |
| PERSNICKETY | Mon Dec 22, 2025 | Overly fussy | Suzanne Oliver |
| RABBET | Fri Oct 20, 2000 | Notch cut into a board | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| RACHELWEISZ | Sun Feb 2, 2025 | Lead actress in "The Lovely Bones" (2009) and "The Bourne Legacy" (2012) | Derrick Niederman |
| RARAE | Sun Jan 22, 1995 | _____ aves (nonpareils) | Frances Hansen |
| SCREWER | Mon Mar 20, 1995 | Carpenter, often | Sidney L. Robbins |
| SEAWOLF | Fri Jan 18, 2013 | Pirate | Tim Croce |
| SELDES | Sat Jan 8, 1994 | Stage actress Marian | Rand H. Burns |
| SHEDLIGHTUPON | Tue Apr 23, 1996 | Expose | N. Steinberg |
| SKINTONES | Sat Feb 11, 2023 | Range on a cosmetics chart | Sam Ezersky |
| STAYINGPOWER | Tue Oct 23, 2001 | Stamina | Leonard Williams |
| SUIGENERIS | Sat Jan 20, 1996 | Unique | F. Longo |
| TABLELEAF | Tue Apr 26, 2005 | Holiday dinner insert, perhaps | Sarah Keller |
| TIMEMACHINES | Thu Jul 17, 2025 | (Baseball (German (physicist Ernst) possessive) rarities) | Sam Brody |