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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEDARTREE | Thu Apr 11, 2002 | Source of fragrant wood | Greg Staples |
| CHILLIER | Thu Jul 2, 1998 | Less amicable | Pat M. Hugel |
| CHURLISH | Sun Jun 25, 1995 | Ill-natured | Frances Hansen |
| COULTER | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | Author of "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DEDICATEDLINE | Sun Aug 18, 2013 | Means of one-to-one communication | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| DRIVETOWORK | Fri Sep 12, 2014 | Commute, in a way | Michael Wiesenberg |
| ENTRANCED | Thu Jan 31, 2013 | Taken | Mike Buckley |
| FISACOURT | Sat Jul 3, 2021 | Govt. body that approves warrant requests for spies | Kameron Austin Collins |
| GALLONS | Thu Feb 19, 2026 | Gas units | John Ewbank |
| GOTHAMMERED | Sun Apr 9, 2006 | Nails | Paula Gamache |
| HARSHEST | Wed Sep 4, 2002 | Least forgiving | Eric Berlin |
| HAZMATSUIT | Fri Mar 7, 2014 | Requirement for special handling? | Matt Ginsberg |
| HENRYFIELDING | Wed Jul 24, 2013 | "Tom Jones" novelist playing baseball? | Erik Wennstrom |
| INAKIT | Sat Nov 21, 2020 | How model airplane parts are sold | Sam Ezersky |
| INFORMEDCONSENT | Wed Jun 24, 2020 | Medical ethics topic | Joe Deeney |
| KIDDIE | Sun Jun 12, 2022 | ___ pool | Will Nediger |
| KRIPS | Sat Feb 24, 2001 | Austrian conductor Josef | Rich Norris |
| LEEWAYS | Sat Nov 22, 2003 | Margins of safety | Robert H. Wolfe |
| LIKELIKED | Sat Jan 3, 2026 | Really went for | Hannah Slovut-Einertson |
| MAINACT | Sun Oct 1, 2023 | What an opener precedes | Jeffrey Lease |
| MIXEDDRINKS | Fri Sep 23, 1994 | This puzzle's theme | Bryant White |
| MOLOTOVCOCKTAIL | Wed Aug 2, 1995 | Homemade bomb | James Neal |
| NERVECELL | Mon Oct 27, 2014 | Place for an axon | Stanley Newman |
| ODDNUMBERED | Sun Jun 26, 1994 | Like every other book page | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| PORTLANDOR | Tue May 27, 1997 | Surgical site in the Beaver State? | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| RANGELAND | Sat Sep 4, 2021 | Chaparral or savanna | Byron Walden |
| REBREW | Sun Jan 8, 2006 | Use over, as tea leaves | Michael Ashley |
| REDANS | Sun Apr 11, 2004 | Fortifications with double parapets | Patrick Merrell |
| RIFFEDON | Fri Dec 25, 2020 | Used as improv fodder, say | Erik Agard and Wendy L. Brandes |
| SILENTMODE | Fri Oct 11, 2024 | Setting indicated by a bell with a slash | Billy Bratton |
| SOSTENUTO | Sun Feb 15, 1998 | Slowed musical passage | Rich Norris |
| SOZZLED | Thu Nov 11, 2010 | Three sheets to the wind | Andrew Zhou |
| TEACHIN | Sun Feb 25, 2024 | Educational forum | Scott Hogan and Katie Hale |
| THESTARRREPORT | Thu Oct 14, 1999 | Much-discussed 1998 document | Joe DiPietro |
| TRICHINA | Tue Aug 29, 1995 | Intestinal parasite | John R. Conrad |
| TRUNKING | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | Link aggregation, in computing | Derrick Niederman |
| UNSOLVED | Fri May 22, 2026 | Like the Millennium Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute | Gene Louise De Vera |
| URBANAREAS | Tue Nov 29, 2022 | Traditional habitats for pigeons | David Rockow |
| WANDAVISION | Mon Sep 12, 2022 | Disney+ series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe | Michael Lieberman |
| WHACKER | Fri Nov 7, 1997 | Garden tool | Brendan Emmett Quigley |