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 50,595 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVERBIAL | Wed Jul 23, 1997 | Kind of clause | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ARLON | Sun Apr 13, 1997 | Oldest known city in Belgium | Cathy Millhauser |
| ARMURE | Tue Jul 5, 1994 | Fabric with a raised pattern | Raymond Hamel |
| BADLAND | Mon May 4, 1998 | South Dakota geographical feature | Hugh Davis |
| BELLICOSE | Sat Apr 16, 1994 | Jingoistic | Rand H. Burns |
| BERGSON | Sun Jun 30, 2002 | 1927 Literature Nobelist Henri | Joe DiPietro |
| BITTORRENT | Fri Aug 4, 2023 | Format for peer-to-peer file sharing | Brandon Koppy |
| BLOATWARE | Thu Aug 19, 2021 | Extraneous computer programs that slow down a system | Oliver Roeder |
| BOTHERSOME | Sat Mar 2, 2002 | Causing trouble | Jim Page |
| COES | Tue Dec 27, 1994 | Director Fred et al. | Ernie Furtado |
| COMPACTDISK | Mon Jun 11, 2001 | Today's record | Gregory E. Paul |
| CONTRIVE | Wed Sep 2, 1998 | Make ingeniously | Randall J. Hartman |
| CRYPTIC | Sun May 26, 2019 | Puzzling | Ruth Bloomfield Margolin |
| DEVEIN | Wed Jun 13, 2018 | Prepare for eating, as shrimp | Michael Hawkins |
| DIESNON | Sat May 31, 2008 | Day when courts are not in session | Robert H. Wolfe |
| ECOLOGICAL | Sat Oct 3, 2020 | Green | Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson |
| EXHIBITB | Sat Jun 16, 2007 | Further evidence | Joe DiPietro |
| FERRYTERMINAL | Wed Mar 3, 2004 | End of a line | Mark Diehl |
| FIGEATER | Sun Nov 4, 2018 | Shiny beetle disliked by fruit growers | Patrick Berry |
| FISHED | Mon Jul 4, 2005 | Dropped a line in the water | Nancy Salomon |
| FLATCARS | Thu Nov 28, 2002 | Vagabonds' transportation, maybe | Patrick Merrell |
| GADGETRY | Sun Sep 29, 2019 | Fancy gizmos | Tom McCoy |
| HANDEDOUT | Tue May 23, 2000 | Distributed | Monica Krausse |
| HANGDOGLOOK | Thu Nov 14, 2002 | Sad face | Paula Gamache |
| ISLEOFSKYE | Fri Jul 2, 2021 | Northernmost land in the Inner Hebrides | Brooke Husic and Ada Nicolle |
| ITSSUPERMAN | Thu Sep 12, 2013 | Remark about the end of 49-Across | Ian Livengood |
| JAMMIES | Fri Aug 3, 2007 | Undercover wear? | Charles Barasch |
| LONGACRE | Wed Jun 1, 2005 | ___ Square (Times Square, once) | Nick Grivas |
| MORNINGFROST | Sun Aug 4, 2024 | "The Road Not Taken" enjoyed over breakfast? | Scott Hogan and Katie Hale |
| MOVESIT | Tue Jun 13, 2023 | Gets out of the way, say | Juliana Tringali Golden and Wendy L. Brandes |
| PILEDON | Sat Aug 10, 1996 | Committed a football violation | R. Norris |
| PUPTENTS | Wed Feb 6, 2002 | Soldiers pitch them | Joe DiPietro |
| RADICALFEMINIST | Sat Jun 23, 2018 | Fierce opponent of patriarchy | Byron Walden |
| RUSSIANLANGUAGE | Fri Aug 22, 2008 | It has 33 letters | Kevin G. Der |
| SACRIFICE | Sun Mar 31, 2019 | [See note] | Andrew J. Ries |
| SAHUAROS | Sun Aug 22, 1999 | Towering desert plants: Var. | Raymond Hamel |
| SLEEPINGIN | Sat Jan 28, 2023 | Still not up, say | Kevin Christian |
| SUPERHUMANPOWER | Tue Sep 22, 2020 | See 17-Across | Jeremy Newton |
| THEDARK | Thu Oct 22, 2009 | See 27-Across | Joel Fagliano |
| YOYODIETERS | Fri Oct 28, 2005 | Frequent losers and gainers | Elizabeth C. Gorski |