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 50,622 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFAULT | Sun Oct 2, 1994 | To _____ (excessively) | Frances Hansen |
| AVERAGED | Sat Jan 6, 2007 | Found the middle of? | Robert H. Wolfe |
| BAROSTAT | Sat Apr 1, 1995 | Pressure regulator | Fred Piscop |
| BOARDOFTRUSTEES | Fri Jan 12, 2001 | Runners | Mark Diehl |
| BREAKITDOWN | Mon Jul 22, 2024 | Explain something in steps | Laura Dershewitz |
| CASHANDCARRY | Tue Dec 21, 1999 | Like some purchases | Richard Hughes |
| CHIEFJOSEPH | Wed Mar 29, 2006 | Nez Percé leader | Frances Hansen (1919-2004) |
| CHOSESIDES | Thu Dec 14, 1995 | Didn't engage in fence sitting | Matt Gaffney |
| DANIELDAEKIM | Tue Jan 24, 2012 | He played Jin-Soo Kwon on "Lost" | Alex Boisvert |
| DRAGSON | Tue Feb 8, 2011 | Never seems to end | Robert W. Harris |
| ELIMINATING | Fri Nov 28, 2003 | Defeating in a tournament | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ERDAS | Fri Mar 20, 2009 | "___ Warning" ("Das Rheingold" aria) | David Levinson Wilk |
| FACEBOOKBUTTONS | Mon Jul 13, 2015 | What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across are | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| FATELVIS | Sat Jun 16, 2018 | The King, late in his career | Sam Trabucco |
| FEDERER | Sat Sep 6, 2014 | Completer of a career Grand Slam in 2009 | James Mulhern |
| FIRSTOFALL | Sat Nov 15, 2025 | "One ..." | Kyle Dolan |
| FURIKAKE | Sun Nov 14, 2021 | Japanese condiment sprinkled on rice | Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz |
| HALFDEAD | Wed Feb 9, 2011 | How a hangover sufferer might feel | Victor Barocas |
| HAWKONESWARES | Tue Feb 24, 2009 | Be a street peddler | Stephen Edward Anderson |
| INHAUL | Wed Jul 21, 2010 | Rope for pulling a sail | Oliver Hill |
| INNEUTRAL | Sun Apr 12, 2009 | Idling | Eric Berlin |
| INTERNETCONNECTION | Sun Sep 26, 2021 | It lets you see the sites | Priyanka Sethy and Matthew Stock |
| INTRAFFIC | Sat May 31, 2003 | Unpleasant place to be tied up | Mitch Komro |
| JOHNNYDEPP | Tue Mar 3, 2015 | He played one of the lead roles in the film version of 50-/55-Across | Kristian House |
| KISSABLE | Sun Apr 27, 2025 | Like a lover's lips, perhaps | Jacob Reed |
| LASTMANONEARTH | Mon Sep 19, 2022 | *Whom one might not marry no matter what! | Leslie Young and Andrea Carla Michaels |
| LOOKATMENOW | Sun Sep 21, 2025 | "I made it big time!" | Adrianne Baik |
| PNCPARK | Sun Mar 6, 2011 | Pirates' home | David Levinson Wilk |
| POSTHOC | Sun Mar 7, 2021 | After the fact, as a justification | Celeste Watts and Jeff Chen |
| PROSODIC | Wed Mar 14, 2018 | Pertaining to the rhythm of speech | Jeff Chen |
| RETUSE | Sun Jun 19, 1994 | Rounded and notched, as a leaf | Nancy Scandrett Ross |
| RINGALEVIO | Tue Jul 1, 2014 | Game similar to hide-and-seek | Gary Cee |
| ROWROWROWYOURBOAT | Sun Jan 26, 2003 | Round opening? | Nancy Salomon and Bob Peoples |
| SCLERAE | Sun Dec 16, 2001 | Eyeball covers | Fred Piscop |
| TALKSOVER | Thu Mar 2, 1995 | Discusses | Raymond Hamel |
| TENFOURS | Sat Nov 16, 2019 | Rogers | Daniel Larsen |
| THANKYOULETTERS | Mon Sep 12, 2005 | Niceties following 29-Downs | Michael Shteyman |
| THEBOONDOCKS | Thu Oct 31, 1996 | Remote area | L. Sidway |
| WAITTIME | Mon Sep 14, 2020 | Number of minutes on hold before getting a customer representative | John Guzzetta |
| WHIRLY | Wed Aug 30, 1995 | Violent wind carrying snow | John R. Conrad |