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 51,169 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLYHOOER | Sat Mar 19, 1994 | Hyper | Manny Nosowsky |
| BLOCKLETTERS | Tue Jan 18, 2000 | Features of many signs | Nancy Salomon |
| BOOKED | Fri Feb 21, 2014 | Reserved | Patrick Berry |
| CAMETOSEE | Sat Jun 23, 2012 | Realized in the end | Laura Sternberg |
| CUEWORD | Sun Oct 9, 2011 | Last thing a fellow actor says, maybe | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| DEPARTMENTALLY | Sun Mar 19, 2023 | Zone out? | Robert Ryan |
| DISLODGING | Sun Feb 24, 2019 | Knocking out of place | Erik Agard |
| DREWNEAR | Mon Dec 14, 2020 | Got close | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau |
| FOLDINHALF | Wed Apr 16, 2003 | Reduce the area of by 50% | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| FOOTMODEL | Mon Aug 30, 2021 | One who might have a contract with a sandal manufacturer | Brooke Husic |
| GANGSTASPARADISE | Thu Jul 13, 2023 | 1995 Coolio song featured in the film "Dangerous Minds" | Hanh Huynh |
| GOESONABENDER | Sat Aug 22, 2020 | Binges | Trenton Charlson |
| INSISTED | Sun Jan 31, 2021 | Didn't just request | Jim Hilger |
| ISNEW | Tue Mar 30, 2010 | "So what else ___?" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| JUSTSPITBALLING | Tue Dec 9, 2025 | "These are merely my spur-of-the-moment suggestions ..." | Kate Hawkins |
| KINGSET | Sun Feb 20, 2005 | Linens for a large bed | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| LOWNECKS | Sun Apr 2, 2023 | Feature of décolleté clothing | Jeremy Newton and Tracy Gray |
| MARTINIGLASS | Sun Mar 29, 2026 | Common vessel for a cosmopolitan | Michael and Oliver Schlossberg |
| MUSICALPIECES | Fri Aug 10, 2007 | Compositions | Patrick Berry |
| OPTICNERVE | Fri Jul 16, 2004 | Line of sight? | Craig Kasper |
| OPTSOUTOF | Sat Mar 22, 2008 | Steps away from | Byron Walden |
| ORIENTATES | Fri Aug 8, 2003 | Gives freshman introduction, say | Myles Callum |
| PEDALLED | Fri Oct 13, 2006 | Like bicycles and organs | Eric Berlin |
| PEKINGDUCK | Thu Aug 2, 2012 | Dish often served with hoisin sauce | Xan Vongsathorn |
| PERCEPT | Fri Jul 28, 2000 | Something seen | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| RANGO | Sun Jan 31, 2016 | Title chameleon of a 2011 animated film | Yaakov Bendavid |
| REIDS | Wed Feb 7, 2007 | Actress Tara and others | David Kwong |
| RETURNING | Thu May 20, 1999 | Backtracking | Zack Butler |
| ROUNDEYED | Wed Dec 10, 2014 | Full of innocent wonder | Tom McCoy |
| SATIRIZED | Sat Jan 8, 2011 | Swiftly written? | Will Nediger |
| SATRAPIES | Sun Oct 9, 1994 | Despotic jurisdictions | Bryant White |
| SLOANESTREET | Fri Jan 4, 2008 | London locale of Prada, Dior, Gucci and Giorgio Armani | Raymond C. Young |
| STEELBELT | Sat Jan 22, 2011 | Feature of many tires | Victor Fleming |
| SUCHASITIS | Fri Apr 9, 1999 | For better or worse | Manny Nosowsky |
| SUGARFREE | Thu Feb 25, 2021 | Like some diet soda | Dylan Schiff |
| SURROGATE | Fri Jan 17, 1997 | Deputy | B. Klahn |
| THATSJUSTTOOBAD | Fri Jul 18, 2025 | "Well, tough!" | Kelly Morenus |
| UNGARBED | Tue Mar 12, 2019 | Naked | Jules Markey |
| VATECH | Sat Oct 24, 2020 | The Hokies of the A.C.C., for short | Byron Walden |
| VWSCIROCCO | Wed Mar 5, 2008 | German auto debut of 1974 | Steven Ginzburg |