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 50,868 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCADIAN | Mon Jun 8, 2015 | Peaceful, as the simple rural life | Peter A. Collins |
| BILLGATES | Fri Mar 29, 2002 | "The Road Ahead" author | Kevin Hagen |
| BOUNDTOHAPPEN | Mon Jan 15, 2024 | Inevitable ... or a hint for 19-, 27- and 48-Across | Peter A. Collins |
| CDII | Thu Dec 22, 2011 | Year of the Battle of Pollentia | Kristian House |
| CHALMERS | Sat Oct 14, 1995 | Farm equipment manufacturer William | Alex K. Justin |
| CHESSBOXER | Sat May 31, 2025 | Participant in a hybrid sport that requires both brains and brawn | Adam Aaronson and Ricky Cruz |
| CITYPLANS | Sat Jun 11, 2022 | Drawings with lots of little blocks | Sid Sivakumar |
| CREVICE | Fri Mar 22, 2013 | Ice climbing hazard | Tim Croce |
| DOWNWARDFACINGDOG | Thu Apr 28, 2022 | Part of a sun salutation, in yoga | Pao Roy |
| ELECTRONICA | Fri Jan 17, 2020 | Genre that includes techno and house music | Ryan Patrick Smith |
| FATASAHOG | Sat May 31, 2008 | Porky | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FLOODWATER | Sat Feb 10, 1996 | Corps of Engineers concern | John R. Conrad |
| FLYSWATTERS | Wed Oct 28, 1998 | Pest control devices | Alan Arbesfeld |
| GASTRONOMY | Fri Jul 31, 2020 | Food-filled field | Claire Rimkus and Erik Agard |
| GAVEADAMN | Sat Jun 27, 2020 | Cared | Ryan Mccarty |
| GHOSTSHIP | Wed Oct 7, 2020 | Vessel found drifting without a crew | Ross Trudeau |
| GROWTHAREA | Sat Jul 27, 2019 | What a business might shift resources to | Byron Walden |
| GYMBOREE | Sun Mar 16, 2025 | Longtime children's clothing store with a portmanteau name | Paul Coulter |
| JUULPODS | Fri Jan 10, 2020 | Puff pieces? | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| LOOKINGAT | Sun Jan 30, 2005 | Eying [white] | Derrick Niederman |
| MIDDLENAME | Tue Oct 18, 2016 | What 50-Across is ... or a clue to 17-, 29-, 35- and 45-Across | Mary Lou Guizzo |
| OEILLADE | Sun May 7, 1995 | Amorous glance: Fr. | Bob Klahn |
| OMINE | Tue Mar 16, 1999 | "Mother ___" (old standard) | Fred Piscop |
| OUTDONE | Thu Jul 14, 2011 | Bested | Brendan Emmett Quigley and Ian Livengood |
| PAPERLION | Fri Jan 28, 2005 | George Plimpton book | Eric Berlin |
| PEGGING | Sun Mar 7, 1999 | Identifying | Randolph Ross |
| PEPPERMINTSTICK | Mon Aug 31, 1998 | Ice cream flavor #4 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PETBIRD | Sat Mar 10, 2018 | Iago vis-à-vis Jafar, in "Aladdin" | Ryan McCarty |
| PLAICE | Sun Feb 24, 2008 | Fish in fish and chips | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| PLANEGEOMETRY | Tue Dec 4, 2012 | Subject of a Euclidean treatise | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| POTSHARD | Fri Nov 7, 1997 | Dig discovery: Var. | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SIXPACKOFBEER | Tue Jan 21, 2020 | Party purchase ... or a hint to each circled letter set | Carl Larson |
| SNIPSOUT | Sat Sep 6, 1997 | Removes, as for a scrapbook | Rich Norris |
| TAKEILL | Sun Jul 10, 2016 | Catch something | Patrick Berry |
| TIMETOHITTHEHAY | Wed Jan 5, 2011 | With 43-Across, line spoken by the show's star | Mr. Ed Sessa |
| UNCALLEDFOR | Sat Jul 10, 1999 | Not justified | Rich Norris |
| UNCONSOLED | Fri Aug 24, 2007 | Feeling no better | Patrick Berry |
| WARMSUPTO | Sun Feb 6, 2022 | Begins to like | Stephen McCarthy |
| WETWILLY | Sun Jan 20, 2019 | Moistened finger in another's ear | Richard Crowe |
| YEEHAW | Sun Feb 5, 2023 | Cowboy's cry of excitement | Jeremy Newton |