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 50,639 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASACAT | Sun Sep 28, 2008 | "Vigilant ___ to steal cream": Falstaff | Cathy Allis Millhauser |
| BATBOYS | Tue May 16, 2006 | Dugout gofers | Nancy Salomon |
| BOTTLEGREEN | Fri Oct 21, 2022 | Dark hue named after a type of glassware | Rafael Musa |
| BROKENHOME | Mon Jun 7, 2010 | Family divided by divorce | Lynn Lempel |
| BUNGLER | Mon Mar 6, 2023 | One prone to mistakes | Lynn Lempel |
| CAMEOROLES | Mon Sep 15, 2025 | Brief appearances by A-listers in films (Baltimore) | Matthew Stock and Michael Lieberman |
| CAPTAINFANTASTIC | Mon May 15, 2017 | 2016 film for which Viggo Mortensen earned an Oscar nomination | Peter Gordon |
| CEASETOBE | Thu Nov 6, 2003 | Disappear | Joe DiPietro |
| CHILLAXED | Sat Jul 9, 2016 | Hung around casually? | Josh Knapp |
| COMMENTCAVA | Mon Jul 13, 2015 | "How's it going?," in Paris | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| COOKBOOKS | Mon Mar 25, 2013 | Recipe holders | Adam Prince |
| DARNAY | Tue Oct 18, 2011 | Charles ___, hero of "A Tale of Two Cities" | Patrick Berry |
| ENDORSEHERE | Sat Aug 7, 1999 | Check phrase | Trip Payne |
| EXULTANT | Sat May 10, 2008 | More than happy | Karen M. Tracey |
| FANEUIL | Sat Dec 21, 1996 | Boston's ___ Hall | F. Piscop |
| FEELINGNOPAIN | Wed Nov 26, 1997 | Pleasantly drunk, so to speak | Nancy Schuster |
| FURIOSO | Wed May 21, 2008 | Forcefully, in music | Dave Mackey |
| HAZARDING | Fri Jul 22, 2011 | Gambling | Todd McClary |
| HITUPON | Tue Jul 4, 2000 | Get, as an idea | Tyler Hinman |
| HOGSCORE | Fri Feb 3, 2012 | Curling rink line seven yards from the tee | Joel Kaplow |
| KHUFU | Sun Mar 27, 2022 | Fill in this answer with letters from five clue numbers: 74, 92, 21, 52, 118 | August Lee-Kovach |
| MAYORESS | Fri May 2, 2003 | Chicago's Jane Byrne, once | Dana Motley |
| MONOTREME | Sat Dec 1, 2012 | Egg-laying mammal | Joon Pahk |
| MONTHSNOTICE | Fri Apr 21, 2006 | Landlord's entitlement, with "a" | Manny Nosowsky |
| PAISLEY | Fri Sep 12, 2008 | Pattern sometimes called "Persian pickles" | Natan Last |
| PESKIEST | Sat Aug 14, 2010 | Most difficult to manage | John Farmer |
| PLASMASCREEN | Sun Nov 14, 2021 | TV display option | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| PLUMBRULE | Fri Sep 6, 2019 | Surveyor's instrument | Mark Diehl |
| ROCKGARDENS | Tue Jun 30, 2015 | Comedian cultivates flowers? | Susan Gelfand |
| SELMAS | Fri Sep 15, 1995 | Comedienne Diamond et al. | Matt Gaffney |
| SHOWERHEADS | Sun Jun 16, 2024 | BRIDAL, COLD, GATORADE, METEOR? | Chandi Deitmer and Wyna Liu |
| STAYWOKE | Thu Dec 30, 2021 | Social justice catchphrase | John Ewbank |
| STRUNGUP | Sun Feb 16, 1997 | Hanged | M. Gaffney |
| SUNLAMPS | Sat Apr 8, 2000 | Some tanners | Rich Norris |
| SURFINUSA | Sun May 30, 2021 | Beach Boys song set to the tune of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" | Adam Wagner |
| TRUELIFEROMANCE | Sat Mar 13, 2010 | Hepburn and Tracy shared one | Tyler Hinman and Byron Walden |
| UPCURVE | Thu Oct 25, 2001 | Good sign on a sales chart | John Scott Marrone |
| VERMONSTER | Fri Feb 4, 2022 | Ben & Jerry's sundae with an estimated 14,000 calories | Joseph Greenbaum |
| WARTOENDALLWARS | Wed Feb 12, 2020 | Overly optimistic 1910s appellation | Rich Proulx |
| YOURERIGHT | Tue Mar 17, 2020 | "I agree" | Ross Trudeau |