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 50,606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALDEBARAN | Sun Jan 29, 1995 | Brilliant orange star of the northern sky | Bryant White |
| BELZER | Sun Jun 2, 2002 | Actor/comedian Richard | Frank Longo |
| CABOVER | Wed Jul 8, 2009 | Style of truck with a vertical front | Tim Wescott |
| CAUSATION | Sun Dec 2, 2001 | Reason why | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| CHARACTERARCS | Wed May 14, 2025 | Heroes' journeys, say ... or a description of this answer's shaded letters? | Rebecca Goldstein and Adam Wagner |
| CLOGDANCE | Fri Feb 21, 2014 | Stamp act? | Patrick Berry |
| CONDS | Thu Oct 3, 1996 | Orch. leaders | J. R. Leeds |
| COPAS | Wed Dec 7, 1994 | Country singer Cowboy _____ | Chet Currier |
| CRAWDADDY | Fri Jan 5, 2018 | Crustacean in Creole cuisine | Ned White |
| DECAMETER | Fri Oct 13, 2006 | 32.81 feet | Eric Berlin |
| DEEPTHREAT | Sun Jun 24, 2018 | Speedy wide receiver, perhaps | Timothy Polin |
| DOUGHNUTHOLE | Tue Apr 7, 2015 | Petite sweet treat | David J. Lieb |
| DWINDLE | Wed Apr 9, 2025 | Fall off | Aidan Deshong and Oren Hartstein |
| ECIGARETTE | Sat Sep 27, 2014 | Smoke without fire? | Martin Ashwood-Smith and George Barany |
| EUCALYPTUS | Fri Oct 29, 2004 | Source of heavy timber wood | Sherry O. Blackard |
| FALLCOLLECTIONS | Fri Jan 2, 1998 | Designers' lines | Alex K. Justin |
| GORYDETAIL | Thu Mar 5, 2015 | Part of a story you might not want to know | Jim Peredo |
| HAMLETSOLILOQUY | Thu Jul 24, 1997 | Shakespeare classic | Randall J. Hartman |
| HEAVYHAND | Wed Dec 6, 2023 | Harsh rule, metaphorically | Peter A. Collins and Bruce Haight |
| IMMATURE | Sun Aug 10, 1997 | GREEN | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| LAGALAXY | Mon Sep 7, 2020 | California soccer club | Gareth Bain |
| LANDAT | Thu Apr 20, 2017 | Reach by air | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| LEADSHOT | Mon Feb 3, 2014 | Air rifle pellets | Sean Dobbin |
| MARSHLANDS | Sun Apr 14, 2002 | Where bulrushes grow | David J. Kahn |
| MIXINS | Sat Jan 17, 2026 | Toppings blended with ice cream | Adam Aaronson |
| MUTATIONS | Sat Nov 15, 2003 | Evolutionary shifts | Patrick Berry |
| NAGOYA | Sun Sep 13, 2020 | Japanese city where Lexus is headquartered | MaryEllen Uthlaut |
| ORALREPORT | Fri Sep 12, 2025 | Classroom delivery, perhaps | Joe Marquez |
| OVERDUBS | Tue Jul 22, 1997 | Recording studio add-ins | Fred Piscop |
| POSTALCODE | Sat Oct 22, 2022 | Santa's is H0H 0H0, in Canada | Brooke Husic and Yacob Yonas |
| PREEXPOSE | Fri May 16, 1997 | Condition ahead of time, as film | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PREHISTORICPERIODS | Sun Mar 30, 2025 | ... Ancient | Simeon Seigel |
| PROACTIVE | Sat Feb 11, 1995 | On the offensive | Randolph Ross |
| RETRACES | Sun Aug 18, 2002 | Goes back over | Michael Ashley |
| SEAPINE | Fri Apr 5, 1996 | Maritime tree | J. Page |
| TOLDOF | Mon Jan 23, 2017 | Described, as something in the past | Bruce Haight |
| TRACTORS | Fri May 28, 2004 | Caterpillars, maybe | Manny Nosowsky |
| WACKADOODLE | Sun Dec 3, 2023 | Super-sillyous? | Tracy Bennett |
| WALTONS | Fri Apr 9, 2021 | The world's wealthiest family | Jamey Smith |
| WORSECONDITIONS | Mon Jul 2, 2007 | More rain and less light, e.g., to a pilot | Peter A. Collins |