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 50,532 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AREYOUHIGH | Sat Jul 29, 2023 | "What?! That's absurd!" | Sam Ezersky |
| BEBOPPER | Mon Jan 29, 2007 | Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie | Fred Piscop |
| BEVIN | Sun Jan 22, 1995 | British Labor leader Ernest | Frances Hansen |
| BILLYJOEL | Mon Jan 10, 2022 | Singer/songwriter nicknamed "Piano Man" | Lynn Lempel |
| BRIGHAMYOUNG | Thu Jun 5, 2014 | The "American Moses" | Ed Sessa |
| CLOSENESS | Tue Nov 11, 2003 | Proximity | M. Francis Vuolo |
| CRAZIEST | Tue Sep 24, 1996 | Most zany | S. Spadaccini |
| DUBLINOHIO | Wed Jan 7, 2009 | Host city of golf's Memorial Tournament | William Frank Macreery |
| EYESTONE | Sun Oct 9, 1994 | Ophthalmologist's implement | Bryant White |
| GYRATION | Fri May 14, 2010 | Belly dancer's move | Barry C. Silk |
| HASAPOINT | Thu Jun 22, 2006 | Argues sensibly | Christina Houlihan Kelly |
| HENNEPIN | Thu Apr 19, 2001 | Minneapolis's county | Manny Nosowsky |
| HOTOVER | Sat Feb 15, 1997 | Ticked off about | J. Clonick |
| HOWARDBAKER | Sun Dec 11, 1994 | Reagan chief of staff | Wayne Robert Williams |
| ISAMUNOGUCHI | Wed Oct 13, 2021 | "Red Cube" sculptor with an eponymous museum in New York | Brianne McManis |
| JEUX | Wed Mar 20, 2013 | ___ d'esprit (witticisms) | Raymond C. Young |
| LUSTRA | Tue Feb 8, 1994 | Five-year periods | Peter Gordon |
| MARESTAIL | Sat Feb 19, 2005 | Long, narrow cloud | Brad Wilber |
| MARIOPARTY | Sat Jun 19, 2021 | Nintendo offering with more than 10 installments | Sophia Maymudes |
| MCADAM | Sun Mar 18, 2012 | Scottish inventor and road builder John Loudon ___ | Mike Nothnagel and Byron Walden |
| MIXINONIONS | Thu Apr 1, 2004 | *Meat loaf recipe instruction | Byron Walden |
| MYLOU | Sun Dec 28, 2008 | "Skip to ___" | Patrick Berry |
| NEAPTIDES | Sun Jun 23, 2019 | Twice-monthly coastal phenomena | David Liben-Nowell and Victor Barocas |
| ONEILOVE | Sat Nov 11, 2000 | 1987 R.E.M. hit, with "The" | Randolph Ross |
| QUARTERLIES | Tue Apr 25, 2023 | "It's worth only 20 cents," "It has Abe Lincoln on it" and others? | Grant Boroughs |
| QUESTAFTER | Sun Jun 8, 2008 | Pursue | Will Nediger |
| RATTLERS | Sun Jul 13, 2014 | Ones that warn before they attack | Tom McCoy |
| RECORDHIGHS | Tue Apr 22, 2003 | Hundreds in New York, perhaps | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| REPAVING | Wed May 31, 1995 | Fixing the driveway | Jonathan Schmatzbach |
| SCHEDULINGCOORDINATOR | Sun Oct 13, 2019 | ... "Go ahead, make my day" | Erik Agard |
| SIGNALRED | Sun Feb 4, 2001 | Hue stronger than scarlet | Frank A. Longo |
| STARSHAKE | Fri Feb 19, 1999 | Timber defect extending from the middle outward | Dana Motley |
| STROY | Sun Dec 5, 1999 | Ruin, old-style | Joe DiPietro |
| SUNDOWNS | Sat Mar 25, 2006 | Regular settings | Byron Walden |
| TOOKABOW | Wed Aug 14, 2024 | Acknowledged applause | Samuel A. Donaldson |
| TOPMOST | Sun Aug 23, 1998 | Crowning | Nelson Hardy |
| TOTALASSETS | Sat May 11, 2024 | Measures of one's worth | Billy Bratton |
| WENTOUTTHEWINDOW | Thu Aug 24, 2023 | Suddenly fell through, as a plan | Robin Yu |
| WITHOUTADOUBT | Wed Oct 8, 2025 | Third time's the charm: "Will Ruby go to prom with me?" | Daniel Trujillo Diaz |
| YEYE | Mon May 22, 2006 | Style of 1960's French pop music with a repetitive name | Edgar R. Fontaine |