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 50,256 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLIWANTTODO | Fri Mar 13, 2015 | 2008 crossover hit for the country duo Sugarland | Victor Fleming |
| APOLOG | Tue Dec 27, 1994 | Moral fable: Var. | Ernie Furtado |
| BLACKICE | Thu May 4, 2017 | Winter driving hazard ... or a literal hint to four squares in this puzzle | Loren Muse Smith and Tracy Gray |
| BLOCKLETTERS | Tue Jan 18, 2000 | Features of many signs | Nancy Salomon |
| BOXOFFICEHIT | Wed Sep 12, 2007 | Smash | Alan Arbesfeld |
| BPICTURES | Fri Oct 30, 2015 | Minor additions to the bill? | Patrick Berry |
| CAMPOUTS | Fri Sep 18, 2020 | In-tents experiences? | Anne and Daniel Larsen |
| CATBIRDSEAT | Sun Apr 25, 2004 | Favorable position | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| CLOCKTOWERS | Wed Aug 14, 2019 | Structures in some old town squares | David J. Kahn |
| CROWSFEET | Mon Oct 9, 1995 | Wrinkles | Gregory E. Paul |
| CURTAINTIME | Sat Sep 10, 2022 | When one might start to make a scene | Kameron Austin Collins |
| DEPOSERS | Sun Dec 6, 1998 | Testifiers | Marjorie Richter |
| DOUAY | Fri May 2, 1997 | Catholic Bible version | Matthew L. Jones |
| EKINGOUT | Sat Jul 3, 2010 | Struggling to get | Joe Krozel |
| FEELSO | Sat Jan 10, 1998 | Elvis's "I ___ Bad" | Mark Diehl |
| FOLIEADEUX | Sat Aug 17, 2019 | Shared delusion, from the French | Michael Hawkins |
| GETPAST | Thu Jul 24, 2014 | Overlook, as someone's flaws | David Phillips |
| HARDANDFAST | Tue Sep 29, 2009 | *Inviolable, as rules | Paula Gamache |
| HOWHIGHTHEMOON | Sun Apr 23, 2017 | Signature tune of 68-/70-Across | Olivia Mitra Framke |
| INTHEOFFING | Tue Sep 29, 2009 | *Likely to happen | Paula Gamache |
| MILLINER | Sun Dec 24, 2017 | Hatmaker | Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen |
| NOTINTUNE | Fri May 9, 1997 | Discordant | Richard Hughes |
| OUSELS | Wed Mar 12, 2003 | Diving birds: Var. | Myles Callum |
| PANCAKEDAY | Sat Mar 8, 2008 | Mardi Gras, in the U.K. | Brad Wilber |
| PUTUPJOBS | Tue Jul 5, 2022 | Well-orchestrated ruses | Malgorzata Nowakowska and Eileen Williams |
| REJOICER | Mon Mar 18, 2002 | Celebrant | John Greenman |
| ROUGHRIDERS | Mon May 15, 2000 | Theodore Roosevelt's group | Gregory E. Paul |
| SADDLESORE | Sun Aug 18, 2013 | Real pain in the butt? | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SECCOS | Thu Jul 13, 1995 | Some murals | A.J. Santora |
| SLIPCOVERED | Thu Mar 31, 2011 | Saved, as a seat? | Jeremy Horwitz and Tyler Hinman |
| SPACEMARK | Thu May 29, 2014 | #3 | Anna Shechtman |
| SPIRACLE | Sun Feb 3, 2013 | Insect's opening for air | Dan Schoenholz |
| SUNSCREENS | Sat Dec 28, 1996 | Lifeguards wear them | N. Joline |
| TAINA | Sun Sep 23, 2012 | 2001-02 Nickelodeon sitcom | Matt Ginsberg |
| TROMPES | Sun Dec 29, 1996 | Blast furnace apparatuses | B. White |
| TURNKEY | Thu Dec 11, 2008 | Fully equipped and ready to go | Jim Hilger |
| VINYASA | Sun Sep 8, 2024 | Flowing movement between yoga poses | Meghan Morris |
| VIRTUESIGNALING | Sat Sep 14, 2019 | Sharing of a moral viewpoint to gain social approval | Peter A. Collins |
| WHIMWHAM | Fri Mar 23, 2007 | Gimcrack | Manny Nosowsky |
| WORKINGCOUPLES | Sun Sep 23, 2001 | Terkel/Updike book about two-income families? | Randolph Ross |