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 50,794 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLACCESS | Sun Jan 8, 2023 | Punching tool + Chopping tool + ____ | Wyna Liu |
| ANGARIA | Sat Sep 28, 1996 | Forcible seizure of a ship, in maritime law | G. R. Ferguson |
| APPETIZERORDER | Mon Aug 15, 2011 | Buffalo wings or bruschetta, e.g. | Stan Newman |
| BEERFRIDGE | Fri Mar 3, 2023 | Bud's place, perhaps | Eric Warren |
| BETATHETAPI | Sun Aug 2, 2009 | Group formed at Miami University in 1839 | Patrick Berry |
| BLAE | Sat May 14, 1994 | Slate-colored, in Scotland | Rand H. Burns |
| COCKLES | Wed May 15, 2024 | Bivalve mollusks | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| COZENER | Sun Oct 25, 2015 | Con man | Bill Zais |
| DAIN | Sat Dec 2, 2017 | Hammett's "The ___ Curse" | Mark Diehl |
| DOORDONOTTHEREISNOTRY | Sun Feb 6, 2022 | Memorable quote from 70-Across | Stephen McCarthy |
| FEROCIOUS | Fri May 1, 2015 | Cutthroat | David Steinberg |
| GETTINGCOLDFEET | Mon May 4, 2009 | Succumbing to second thoughts | Mark Milhet |
| GOTADATE | Fri Jul 5, 1996 | Prepared for the prom | M. Gaffney |
| IBLEWIT | Tue May 28, 2013 | "My goof!" | Dan Feyer |
| INAPTITUDE | Sat Aug 26, 1995 | Lack of fitness | Joe DiPietro |
| INSHREDS | Thu Jun 14, 2012 | Tattered | Tracy Gray |
| KILLIT | Wed May 17, 2023 | Perform spectacularly, colloquially | Parker Higgins |
| LADYPALMS | Sun Aug 21, 2016 | Indoor plants popular in waiting rooms | Kathy Matheson and Jeff Chen |
| MIDDLERANGE | Sun May 14, 2017 | Mezzo-soprano, for female voices | Will Nediger |
| MUSICALE | Wed Dec 14, 1994 | Soirée entertainment | Wayne Robert Williams |
| NATLS | Thu Jun 12, 1997 | Big-time competition: Abbr. | Gilbert H. Ludwig |
| PIECEWISE | Wed Sep 15, 2021 | Like a mathematical function that changes at different intervals | Sophie Buchmueller and Ross Trudeau |
| PLACESABET | Thu Sep 22, 2022 | *Wagers at the casino (11) | Helen Chen |
| PLUSMINUS | Sun Aug 20, 2023 | ± | Michael Schlossberg |
| POOLBOY | Thu Jan 7, 2016 | Worker who may skim off the top? | Andrew J. Ries |
| POULENC | Sat Feb 12, 1994 | French composer Francis | Rand H. Burns |
| PRICEREDUCTIONS | Fri Oct 4, 1996 | Sales | M. Ashwood-Smith |
| RADIOFLYER | Mon Jun 29, 2015 | Classic red wagon | Todd Gross and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| RETOTALED | Fri Sep 1, 2017 | Verified the count of | Patrick Berry |
| ROOKING | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | Cheating | Derrick Niederman |
| SEEKING | Thu Sep 7, 2017 | Word in many a personal ad | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| SIMULCASTS | Fri Sep 13, 2002 | Some radio productions | Mel Rosen |
| STEPSONTO | Sat Jun 26, 2004 | Boards | Byron Walden |
| STICKBY | Tue Oct 25, 1994 | Remain loyal to | Lois Sidway |
| SUNWORSHIPER | Tue Apr 29, 2014 | Ardent beachgoer | Jules P. Markey |
| SVEDKA | Fri Nov 8, 2019 | Absolut competitor | Peter Wentz |
| TILESETTER | Sat Sep 17, 2011 | One spending a long time in the bathroom? | Peter A. Collins |
| UNDULANT | Mon Feb 21, 2011 | Like a wave | Ed Sessa |
| WARBUCKS | Wed Apr 21, 1999 | Fictional daddy | Mary E. Brindamour |
| WEIL | Sun Feb 23, 1997 | "On Broadway" co-writer Cynthia | Nancy Nicholson Joline |