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 50,901 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AABATTERIES | Mon Dec 27, 2021 | *TV remote inserts, often | Adam Aaronson |
| ADDUCED | Sun Jun 27, 2004 | Offered as proof | Peter Abide and Steven Kahn |
| AMERICANSTUDIES | Sat Aug 4, 2007 | Interdisciplinary college major | Byron Walden |
| BLACKBEANCHILI | Mon Aug 14, 2017 | Meal option #3 | Rich Proulx |
| COHESIVELY | Fri Jun 16, 1995 | In a unified manner | Thomas W. Schier |
| DEMOMODE | Wed Aug 20, 2025 | Electronic setting on a floor model | Victor Schmitt |
| DIESOUT | Mon Apr 22, 2024 | Goes extinct | David J. Kahn |
| DISCIPLINE | Sat Mar 10, 2007 | Headmaster's faculty | Patrick Berry |
| DRIVEMECRAZY | Wed Feb 18, 2009 | 1999 Melissa Joan Hart movie | Susan Gelfand |
| EARTHED | Sun May 30, 2004 | Drove to hiding in the ground | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| EFAX | Fri Jan 21, 2011 | High-tech transmission | Pete Mitchell |
| EMPERORPALPATINE | Fri Jun 10, 2016 | Film villain who says "Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side" | David Steinberg |
| ENCROACH | Thu Dec 19, 2019 | Horn in (on) | Andy Kravis and Erik Agard |
| FASTBUCKARTISTS | Fri Nov 20, 1998 | Scammers | Manny Nosowsky |
| FRENCHKISS | Mon Apr 8, 1996 | 1995 Kline-Ryan comedy | S. B. Whitten |
| GROMMET | Sat Jul 19, 1997 | Eyelet | Robert H. Wolfe |
| HEARTTHROBS | Fri Feb 14, 1997 | Certain idols | J. R. Conrad |
| HIMMEL | Sun Jul 24, 1994 | Where Gott resides | Matt Gaffney |
| LEGACY | Sun Dec 21, 2003 | Inheritance | Frances Hansen |
| LITTLERHODY | Tue Feb 23, 2016 | Another nickname for the Ocean State | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| MACRONS | Sun Aug 27, 1995 | Diacritical marks | Martin Schneider |
| MIXTURE | Fri Jan 3, 2014 | Salmagundi | Barry C. Silk and Brad Wilber |
| MUSICALTHEATER | Sat Aug 14, 2021 | Background for someone who's good with numbers | Nam Jin Yoon |
| NICOTINELOZENGE | Sat Aug 4, 2007 | Patch alternative | Byron Walden |
| OILBOOMS | Sun Mar 3, 2024 | High times for the petroleum industry | Hoang-Kim Vu |
| ONESTONE | Sun Feb 9, 2003 | British unit equal to 14 pounds | David J. Kahn |
| OUTSCORES | Fri Sep 29, 2023 | Does a better job than at making points | Malaika Handa |
| OZARKER | Sun Sep 17, 1995 | Northern Arkansan | Stanley Newman |
| REPUBLICAN | Thu Feb 11, 2010 | See 62-Down | Peter A. Collins |
| RINGLETS | Mon Aug 22, 1994 | Hair curls | Sidney L. Robbins |
| ROBERTMCNAMARA | Sun Jan 18, 2009 | *Kennedy/Johnson cabinet member | Randolph Ross |
| ROTARIAN | Sat Jan 1, 2005 | Civic club member | Raymond C. Young |
| SAHARAS | Fri Apr 11, 2008 | Vast arid wastes | Manny Nosowsky |
| SIMKA | Fri Mar 20, 2009 | Carol Kane's role on "Taxi" | David Levinson Wilk |
| SIMOLEONS | Sun Nov 11, 2018 | Bucks | Eric Berlin |
| STATIONWAGON | Sun Apr 19, 2015 | Plus-size model? | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| TOOLSETS | Sun Aug 14, 2016 | Some True Value purchases | Ian Livengood |
| UNDETERMINED | Tue Mar 17, 2015 | Up in the air | David Phillips |
| WHITERHINO | Sat Dec 6, 2025 | Endangered African grazer | Marshal Herrmann |
| YOUTHFULINDISCRETIONS | Sun May 10, 2026 | Wild cats | Rachel Fabi and Adam Wagner |