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 50,763 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADHERERS | Fri Apr 3, 1998 | They cling | Frank Longo |
| ASPIRATOR | Sun Aug 27, 1995 | Suction pump | Martin Schneider |
| BARRYGIBB | Fri Mar 29, 2019 | Only songwriter in history to write four consecutive #1 hits (1978) | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| BEARING | Sun Apr 28, 2013 | Comportment | Patrick Berry |
| BORNINTO | Fri Sep 2, 2016 | Endowed with from the start, as money | David Liben-Nowell |
| BREADCRUMB | Wed Feb 7, 2001 | Tidbit for a bird feeder | Kent Lorentzen |
| BURSTIN | Sat Jun 21, 2008 | Enter suddenly | Tyler Lewis Hinman |
| CATAMOUNT | Sat Mar 12, 2005 | Cougar | Byron Walden |
| COLGATETOOTHPASTE | Sun Nov 20, 2005 | Mascot #3 | Patrick Merrell |
| DANIKEN | Fri Jul 8, 1994 | "Chariots of the Gods" author Erich Von _____ | Manny Nosowsky |
| DESKJOBS | Mon May 31, 2010 | Nine-to-five gigs, often | Oliver Hill |
| DIAPERED | Fri Feb 10, 2017 | Tended to, as a baby | Kyle Mahowald |
| DISCOUNTED | Tue Oct 28, 2014 | Not full-price | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| FINESAREDOUBLED | Tue Mar 27, 2007 | Final sign of a highway headache | Lucy Gardner Anderson |
| GAGLAWS | Sat Nov 14, 2015 | Secret enforcers | Kameron Austin Collins |
| HAILTO | Fri Dec 30, 2011 | Start of a presidential march | Mike Nothnagel |
| HELLOHELLO | Sat Jul 7, 2007 | Enthusiastic welcome | Todd McClary |
| HIDEANDGOSEEK | Sat Nov 5, 2022 | Game where It always counts | John Westwig |
| ICANTDECIDE | Sun Dec 31, 2023 | "Ack! All these options sound great!" | Matt Linzer and Rafael Musa |
| INDUCTS | Fri May 11, 2018 | Initiates | Sam Ezersky and David Steinberg |
| JEDIMASTER | Fri Oct 7, 2016 | Yoda, e.g. | Robyn Weintraub |
| LETSGOFLYAKITE | Sat May 10, 2025 | "Mary Poppins" tune that begins "With tuppence for paper and strings / You can have your own set of wings" | Shaun Phillips |
| LIFENETS | Sun Sep 11, 2005 | Firefighters hold them outside windows | Patrick Berry |
| MARSHALLMCLUHAN | Fri Feb 22, 2013 | Coiner of the phrase "global village" | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| MRSPOTATOHEAD | Tue Feb 10, 2026 | "Toy Story 2" character who says "I'm packing you an extra pair of shoes, and your angry eyes, just in case" | Sarah Sinclair and Amie Walker |
| ORGANBANK | Fri Jul 26, 2019 | Your heart may go out to it | Trenton Charlson |
| PARTYLINES | Sat Feb 12, 2000 | They get people talking | Dave Tuller |
| PROKOFIEVSFIRST | Tue Feb 28, 1995 | "Classical" | Nancy S. Ross |
| PRPERSON | Sat Feb 8, 2020 | Media pro | Hemant Mehta |
| RIDESON | Sun Jan 5, 2020 | Has as a mount | Will Nediger |
| SCARLETS | Fri May 5, 2000 | Shades of embarrassment | Roger Barkan |
| SERAPHIC | Tue Jul 10, 2018 | Blissfully serene | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| SLAVEANTS | Fri Feb 25, 2011 | Colonial captives | Henry Hook |
| SLIMDOWN | Tue Oct 16, 2007 | Lose the spare tire | Michael Kaplan |
| SOUNDTRACK | Mon Feb 24, 2014 | Film score | Adam G. Perl |
| TECHDATA | Fri Jan 4, 2013 | Fortune 500 microcomputer firm | David J. Kahn |
| THENOTORIOUSRBG | Tue Jun 30, 2020 | Tongue-in-cheek nickname for 54-Across | Zachary David Levy |
| TRASHPILE | Sun Apr 8, 2018 | It's a bunch of garbage | Patrick Berry |
| WALZ | Mon Dec 15, 2025 | Gov. Tim ___, 2024 running mate | Jeff Jerome and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| WOMBATS | Sun Aug 20, 2000 | Aussie marsupials | Charles M. Deber |