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 50,389 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANALGESIA | Fri Nov 17, 2017 | One effect of marijuana | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| ASHOTINTHEDARK | Tue Oct 21, 2025 | Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? | Spencer Leach |
| ATTENDANTS | Sat Jul 21, 2007 | Retinue | Raymond C. Young |
| ATTENDON | Wed Apr 24, 2013 | Serve, as a maid would a lady | Clive Probert |
| BADINVESTMENTS | Wed Dec 15, 2021 | Speculations that don't pay off | Jessie Bullock and Ross Trudeau |
| BREATHED | Fri Dec 5, 2014 | Showed signs of life | Tim Croce |
| CARBONOFFSET | Tue Mar 30, 2021 | Compensating reduction of greenhouse gas emissions | Alex Rosen and Brad Wilber |
| CONSONANT | Thu Jun 20, 2019 | Something each of this puzzle's answers begins with | Trenton Charlson |
| COSECANT | Sun May 28, 2017 | Reciprocal in trigonometry | Andrew Zhou |
| CRUSADED | Fri Aug 20, 1999 | Fought with Richard the Lion-Hearted | Manny Nosowsky |
| DECORATIVE | Sun Nov 24, 2019 | Like some arts | Frank Longo |
| EASEOFFTHEGASPEDAL | Sun Mar 7, 2021 | ACC_L_RATOR | Celeste Watts and Jeff Chen |
| EGONS | Sat May 18, 2013 | Painter Schiele and composer Wellesz | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| GETOFFTRACK | Mon Aug 22, 2011 | Go astray | Milo Beckman |
| GREATUNCLE | Sat Feb 14, 2009 | Lionel to Drew Barrymore | Joe Krozel |
| HEDONISTS | Sun Aug 24, 2003 | Good-time Charlies | Patrick Berry |
| IFALLTOPIECES | Thu Oct 28, 2021 | Country music standard at zombie karaoke night? | Alan Massengill |
| JUSTMARRIED | Mon Jan 14, 2008 | Good sign on a car trunk | Robert Dillman |
| LOGGIA | Sun Feb 15, 2004 | Open-air arcade | Derrick Niederman |
| MEGHAN | Fri Sep 26, 2025 | Duchess of Sussex beginning in 2018 | Larry Snyder |
| MEMORANDA | Fri Jul 30, 2004 | Attorneys' productions | Manny Nosowsky |
| MESSEDUP | Sun May 28, 2017 | Really not O.K. | Andrew Zhou |
| NASCENCY | Sat Aug 3, 1996 | Early development | A. D. Cover |
| OUTWORE | Tue Nov 21, 2006 | Lasted longer than | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| OYSTERBAR | Fri Nov 14, 2003 | Where to get bluepoints | Myles Callum |
| RETACKLED | Sun Jul 21, 2002 | Took on again, as a problem | Trip Payne |
| ROLETTE | Sat Oct 7, 1995 | North Dakota town or county | Frank A. Longo |
| SKETCHING | Tue Aug 8, 2000 | Outlining | Joy L. Wouk |
| SLACKJAW | Fri May 22, 1998 | Part of an astonished expression | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| SLIDINGSCALE | Fri Feb 15, 2013 | Variable pay schedule | Tom Heilman |
| SLOPPING | Fri Feb 7, 2014 | Sty chore | Ned White |
| SOREHEADS | Wed Dec 10, 2003 | Bad losers | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| SQUIDINK | Sat Jul 13, 2013 | Main means of defense? | Byron Walden |
| TALA | Sun May 31, 1998 | Indian percussion rhythm | Cathy Millhauser |
| TENTACLES | Fri Dec 12, 2003 | Places where suckers are lined up | Manny Nosowsky |
| UNSHAPELY | Fri Apr 16, 2021 | Ill-proportioned | Tom Pepper |
| WATERPOWER | Sat Feb 10, 1996 | Turbine turner | John R. Conrad |
| WINSBYANOSE | Tue Apr 30, 2013 | *Triumphs, but barely | Lynn Lempel |
| WISHFUL | Sun Jul 16, 2017 | Like some thinking | Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller |
| YOUSAIDWHAT | Wed Aug 18, 2004 | Shocked response in conversation | Nancy Salomon and Levi Denham |