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 50,791 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFROPUNK | Fri Mar 23, 2018 | Alternative music subgenre | Erik Agard |
| AFTERNOON | Sat Jan 21, 2006 | It has many soap slots | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ALLURING | Thu Sep 26, 2019 | Seductive | Doug Peterson |
| BEYONDQUESTION | Sun Sep 28, 1997 | ? X | Robert H. Wolfe |
| BOOLEANOPERATOR | Fri Mar 24, 2023 | AND, OR or NOT, in logic | Blake Slonecker |
| CARAVANS | Sat Dec 13, 1997 | Desert groups | Richard Silvestri |
| CLIMBABOARD | Tue Nov 18, 2003 | Prepare to surf? | Denise M. Neuendorf |
| CUSH | Sat Feb 14, 2026 | Like a nepo baby's life, perhaps | David Karp |
| DIGITALCOMPUTER | Sun Jun 6, 1999 | Performer of complicated operations | David J. Kahn |
| DYSPEPSIA | Sat Apr 30, 2016 | Upset | Mark Diehl |
| FIRMAMENT | Wed Feb 25, 1998 | Heavens | Robert H. Wolfe |
| FLIESAWAY | Tue Jun 23, 1998 | Takes to the air | Rich Norris |
| FLYINGINSECTS | Sun Jun 29, 2003 | Religious groups' traveling together? | Rich Norris |
| GODMOTHERS | Wed Aug 13, 2003 | Some bringers of baby gifts | Charles E. Gersch |
| HARRYBELAFONTE | Sun Jun 19, 1994 | SHARI'S | Nancy Scandrett Ross |
| HAUDENOSAUNEE | Sat Mar 28, 2020 | Native name for the Iroquois Confederacy | Erik Agard |
| IDEOLOGICAL | Fri Mar 8, 1996 | Like a propaganda war | R. Ross |
| ISOMORPH | Sun Oct 4, 2020 | Organism that structurally resembles another organism | Sam Ezersky |
| KOY | Wed Sep 17, 2025 | Comedian Jo | Jackson Matz |
| LAMINAE | Sun Jan 7, 2018 | Thin layers | David Steinberg |
| LIKEASISTER | Sat Jun 16, 2001 | One way to love someone | Dana Motley |
| NOWLETSSEE | Fri May 3, 2024 | "Hmm ..." | Eli Cotham |
| OPENHOUSES | Fri Jul 16, 2004 | Events for potential bidders | Craig Kasper |
| OVERWORK | Sat Apr 11, 1998 | Exhaust | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| PIESHELL | Thu Sep 21, 2017 | Dessert component often bought premade | Matt Ginsberg |
| PONTIACS | Sun Dec 8, 2024 | Firebirds and Fieros | John Kugelman |
| POPLIN | Mon Aug 14, 1995 | Ribbed fabric | Ben Wheelock |
| POTFARMS | Sat Dec 20, 2014 | Where much grass grows | Kevin G. Der and Ian Livengood |
| RAILBARONS | Sat Mar 8, 2008 | Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould | Brad Wilber |
| REHEALED | Sat Jul 9, 2005 | Like chronic injuries | Patrick Berry |
| REPROOFS | Sat Aug 20, 2011 | Reprimands | Byron Walden |
| SHIMMERED | Sat Oct 29, 1994 | Luminesced | Frank A. Longo |
| SODALYE | Sun Oct 19, 2008 | Soap-making solution | Joe DiPietro |
| SPORTING | Sun Sep 27, 1998 | Kind of chance | Randolph Ross |
| SPUNKY | Mon Jul 8, 2002 | Spirited | Sheldon Benardo |
| TOREDOWN | Sun Jul 11, 2010 | Razed | Ed Sessa |
| TRIPINSURANCE | Sat Sep 19, 2009 | Fall guy's protection when traveling | Mel Taub |
| WEAKNESSES | Sun Feb 3, 2008 | Failings | Matt Ginsberg |
| WEHAVETOMAKETHISQUICK | Sun Aug 3, 2025 | "Our window is closing for escape w-elocity!," as [circled letters] might say | Jeremy Newton |
| YOUPROBLEM | Sat Aug 10, 2024 | Another's issue, in modern lingo | Spencer Leach |