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 50,911 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACADIE | Sat Sep 10, 2005 | Settlement in le Nouveau Monde | David J. Kahn |
| ATEANDRAN | Thu Apr 13, 2023 | Made a fast break after breakfast, say | Robin Yu |
| BINGEEATER | Sat Jul 27, 2019 | Certain obsessive-compulsive | Byron Walden |
| BURKA | Thu Sep 1, 2022 | Head-to-toe garment | John Wrenholt |
| CURLEW | Sat Apr 26, 2008 | Cousin of the sandpiper | Brad Wilber |
| DEADBODY | Thu Oct 10, 2013 | Nonspeaking role on "CSI" | Jeffrey Wechsler |
| DICKVANDYKE | Mon Oct 27, 2014 | Eponymous star of a 1960s sitcom, the only American TV star with his three initials | Stanley Newman |
| DIRECTOR | Mon Oct 7, 2019 | Person who calls "Action!" | Keiran King |
| ELAPSING | Fri Feb 1, 2008 | Going by | Doug Peterson |
| ENERGIZER | Fri May 17, 1996 | Certain bunny | J. DiPietro |
| FROWNEDUPON | Tue Jul 18, 2017 | Discouraged | Michael Hawkins |
| GETSRIDOF | Fri Jul 7, 2017 | Deep-sixes | Andy Kravis |
| HANDWARMER | Sun Oct 11, 2015 | Muff, e.g. (2005-13) | David J. Kahn |
| IRONOUTTHEKINKS | Wed Jan 8, 2003 | Improve one's golf game? | James Rogers |
| KEYBISCAYNE | Mon Nov 1, 2010 | Nixon's Florida home | Holden Baker |
| KNOXVILLE | Sun Jan 23, 2005 | City served by McGhee Tyson Airport | Joe DiPietro |
| LAVORIS | Fri Sep 13, 2013 | Mouthwash with the patented ingredient Zantrate | Patrick Berry |
| LUPINES | Fri May 29, 1998 | Bluebonnets | Fred Piscop |
| MASTERCOPY | Sat Jul 2, 2022 | Something kept in a Hollywood archive | Evan Kalish |
| NEAME | Fri Oct 3, 2014 | Ronald who directed "The Poseidon Adventure" | Tracy Bennett |
| NERDCULTURE | Sat Dec 31, 2016 | Cosplay and fanfic are parts of it | Jeff Chen |
| OXTONGUE | Fri Aug 26, 2011 | Kind of stew | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PAYFREEZE | Mon Dec 11, 2017 | Action taken by a company in distress | Brian Thomas |
| PEYO | Sat Jan 17, 2009 | One-named Belgian cartoonist who created the Smurfs | Brad Wilber |
| PINELOGS | Sat Aug 26, 2023 | Aromatic fire feeders | Adrian Johnson |
| POPUPSTORES | Fri Jun 27, 2025 | Shops for a short time? | Carolyn Davies Lynch |
| RANGO | Sun Jan 31, 2016 | Title chameleon of a 2011 animated film | Yaakov Bendavid |
| RENEEZELLWEGER | Mon Jun 27, 2016 | Actress with the classic line "You had me at hello" | Kevan Choset |
| SECRETRECIPES | Sat Jan 11, 2020 | Things that might be kept covered in a kitchen | Andrew J. Ries |
| SETHMEYERS | Fri Dec 18, 2015 | TV host who succeeded Jimmy Fallon on "Late Night" | Andrew Zhou |
| SILVAN | Fri Apr 2, 1999 | Wooded: Var. | Jim Page |
| SLANTWISE | Tue Feb 18, 1997 | Obliquely | F. Piscop |
| SOUSCHEF | Mon Feb 10, 2014 | Second-in-command in a kitchen | C. W. Stewart |
| SUPREMELEADER | Sun Jan 3, 2021 | Title for Iran's Ali Khamenei | Paolo Pasco |
| TANT | Sat Sep 18, 2010 | "___ pis!" ("Too bad!," in France) | Natan Last, Brown University '12 |
| THATANSWERSTHAT | Fri Jun 20, 2025 | "Looks like it's settled!" | Adrianne Baik |
| THERESNOTURNINGBACK | Thu Nov 9, 2017 | Comment upon making a fateful decision | Bruce Haight |
| THREEDOG | Fri Jun 5, 2020 | Like a very cold night, idiomatically | John Wrenholt |
| TRIMLY | Sun Apr 2, 2000 | In a well-kept way | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
| TRYITOUT | Sun Apr 12, 2015 | Experiment with something | Jeff Chen |