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 50,982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALACKOF | Sat Feb 10, 2001 | Words before time, money or respect | Rich Norris |
| BAMBAM | Thu Sep 3, 2020 | Former pro wrestling star ___ Bigelow | Sid Sivakumar |
| BIOTESTS | Sat Sep 21, 2002 | Experiments on organisms | Rich Norris |
| CHARMED | Sun Sep 12, 2010 | "___, I'm sure" | Paula Gamache |
| COTONOU | Tue Sep 20, 1994 | Benin's largest city | Christopher Page |
| DRBLACK | Wed Nov 17, 2021 | Colorfully named victim in the U.K. version of Clue | Anne Grae Martin |
| GUERNSEY | Wed Dec 19, 2001 | Dairy animal | Don West |
| HEARTHEALTHY | Mon Feb 6, 2023 | Like a diet low in sodium and favoring whole grains | Taylor Johnson |
| INTERNETECONOMY | Fri Sep 25, 2015 | Google and Alibaba are parts of it | James Mulhern |
| ITLLTAKEFOREVER | Wed Dec 17, 2014 | Hyperbole for an arduous task | Stu Ockman |
| JOHNJAMESAUDUBON | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Artist born April 26, 1785 | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LEISURESUIT | Sat Jul 10, 2004 | Disco-era duds | Bob Peoples |
| MALODORS | Mon Nov 14, 1994 | Nose offenders | Sidney L. Robbins |
| MLV | Thu Jan 29, 1998 | XI years before the Battle of Hastings | Frances Hansen |
| MONODY | Sat Oct 5, 1996 | Poem of lament | T. Payne |
| NETPRICE | Sat Apr 29, 2006 | Shelled-out amount | Robert H. Wolfe |
| NIXONISM | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | *Let me make one thing perfectly clear," e.g. | Byron Walden |
| ODDFELLOWS | Thu Jan 27, 2005 | The Three Link Fraternity | Jim Hyres |
| OLDJOKES | Sun Nov 17, 1996 | CHESTNUTS | N. N. Joline |
| OUIDAS | Tue Dec 27, 1994 | "A Dog of Flanders" author et al. | Ernie Furtado |
| OVERGRAZED | Fri May 26, 2023 | Like some land no longer good for livestock | Hemant Mehta |
| PARTYBOSS | Sat May 27, 2023 | Political heavyweight | Samuel Smalley |
| PEPPERBOX | Thu Mar 13, 2008 | Spice holder | Alan Arbesfeld |
| PGFILMS | Sat Oct 23, 2021 | Standard Disney fare | Sam Ezersky |
| PROVINCES | Sun Jan 10, 2010 | See 67-Across | Mel Rosen |
| QUAG | Thu Aug 27, 1998 | Boggy area, for short | Henry Hook |
| QUEENOFSOUL | Tue Aug 15, 2023 | *Epithet for Aretha Franklin | Malaika Handa |
| RINGING | Sat Feb 5, 2005 | Like certain endorsements | Sherry O. Blackard |
| RIPOSTED | Sat Apr 14, 2012 | Jabbed back | Mark Diehl |
| RIPSNORTERS | Sun Feb 23, 2003 | Criticize angry bulls? | Nancy Salomon |
| SEAQUAKE | Sat May 10, 2008 | Source of some big waves | Karen M. Tracey |
| SEATWORK | Fri Nov 10, 2006 | Assignments done in class | Lynn Lempel |
| SENIORMOMENT | Mon May 21, 2018 | Temporary mental lapse | Hannah Slovut |
| SILICONERUBBER | Sun May 16, 2021 | Highly resistant elastomer | Joe DiPietro |
| SIMULCASTS | Fri Sep 13, 2002 | Some radio productions | Mel Rosen |
| SMALLBUSINESSOWNER | Sun Aug 18, 2019 | Baker or dry cleaner, maybe | David Steinberg |
| THECHERRYMOON | Tue Apr 6, 2004 | 1986 Prince movie, after 29-Down | Tony Orbach |
| XYLOSE | Fri Jul 4, 2003 | Wood sugar | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| YODASPEAK | Sat Oct 7, 2023 | Written in it this clue is | Alex Vratsanos |
| ZOOMBOMBING | Sat Jan 15, 2022 | Crashing an online meeting | Sam Ezersky |