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 51,141 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASEJUMPERS | Fri Jan 28, 2022 | Extreme athletes with parachutes | Jem Burch |
| BEEFHOTDOG | Sat Feb 29, 2020 | Frank type | Andrew J. Ries |
| BIGDOS | Sat Aug 4, 2007 | Galas | Byron Walden |
| BLANDLY | Tue Jul 17, 2012 | With lack of distinctiveness | Peter A. Collins |
| BLOWNGLASS | Tue Apr 5, 2022 | Fragile art form crafted with air and heat | Bruce Haight |
| CEREBELLUMS | Sun Jul 2, 2000 | They help maintain balance | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| CESARIAN | Wed May 25, 1994 | _____ section | Fred Piscop |
| CONGRESS | Sun Apr 7, 2024 | What "the Hill" is a metonym for | Tracy Gray |
| DARKENERGY | Thu Jul 23, 2026 | Proposed cosmological phenomenon that could make up 70% of the universe — and six squares in this puzzle's grid? | Damon Gulczynski |
| DIPSOMANIAC | Sat Dec 2, 2017 | Lush | Mark Diehl |
| DUMPSSTOCKS | Sun Dec 7, 2008 | *Participates in a bear market | Jim Page |
| EXPOW | Sun Aug 16, 2015 | John McCain, for one | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| FACETOWELS | Sun Jul 31, 2005 | Smallish items on rods | Mark Feldman |
| FANJET | Sun Jan 11, 2009 | Certain engine | David J. Kahn |
| FINITERESOURCE | Sun Sep 16, 2012 | Oil, for one | David Steinberg and Barry Haldiman |
| FOOTPADS | Sat Sep 9, 2023 | Thieves who targeted pedestrians, in historic parlance | Robert S. Gard |
| FROMTHETOP | Sat Aug 16, 2003 | Do-over command | Manny Nosowsky |
| HANGSTIGHT | Wed Dec 11, 2024 | Waits patiently | Kathy Bloomer and Jeff Chen |
| HIGHHATTER | Mon Feb 7, 2000 | Snob | Gregory E. Paul |
| HOWAREYA | Fri Jan 24, 2014 | "'Sup?" | Ian Livengood |
| HYPERSPACE | Wed Apr 27, 2011 | Four-dimensional realm | William I. Johnston |
| JULIAN | Fri Jan 6, 2017 | Kind of calendar | Jacob Stulberg |
| LASTCHANCE | Fri May 19, 2017 | "It's now or never" | Matthew Sewell |
| LAUNDERED | Sat Aug 27, 1994 | Cleaned | Joy L. Wouk |
| MEANINGLESS | Sat Sep 27, 2014 | Inane | Martin Ashwood-Smith and George Barany |
| MONOXIDES | Thu Apr 13, 2023 | Some compound gases | Robin Yu |
| OCTENNIAL | Sun Jan 12, 2003 | Occurring every other leap year, say | Patrick Berry |
| ONTHEVERGE | Wed Feb 4, 2026 | Facing an imminent prospect (of) | Hanh Huynh and Ted Mayer |
| ORINDA | Sun Nov 17, 1996 | Town near Oakland | N. N. Joline |
| RUMBLESEATS | Sun Oct 6, 2013 | Model A features | Patrick Berry |
| SAVETHEDATECARD | Sat May 18, 2024 | A wedding couple might be seen on one | Adrian Johnson |
| SOUTHEY | Thu Apr 28, 2016 | Contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge | Kurt Krauss |
| SOUTHSEA | Sun Jul 19, 2009 | From Polynesia and environs | Lynn Lempel |
| THANKER | Thu Apr 27, 2000 | Polite guest | Greg Staples |
| THEMARINERS | Sun Aug 21, 2022 | Seattle team | Brooke Husic and Will Nediger |
| THISISJEOPARDY | Sun Jun 9, 2024 | Classic game show intro | Zachary Schiff |
| TRIJETS | Sun Jan 7, 2018 | Three-engine planes | David Steinberg |
| UNLINKED | Thu Oct 15, 2015 | Not connected | Kevin G. Der |
| UNSTOPPED | Mon Aug 23, 1999 | Like a drain after a drain cleaner | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| WORKABLE | Fri Jul 5, 2002 | Not hopeless, as a plan | Manny Nosowsky |