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 50,357 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTINIC | Sun Mar 15, 2015 | Like light that causes chemical change | Dan Feyer |
| ADOZENREDROSES | Wed Feb 11, 1998 | Valentine present? | Nancy S. Ross |
| ASPERSION | Tue Mar 17, 1998 | Slanderous insinuation | Nancy Salomon and Bob Klahn |
| AWHECK | Sun Feb 19, 2017 | "Rats!" | Bruce Haight |
| BENDOREGON | Tue Jul 29, 2025 | Western city hinted at seven times in this puzzle's circled letters | Peter Gorman |
| BICHROME | Sun Jul 24, 2022 | Two-colored | Jessie Trudeau and Ross Trudeau |
| CAMILLO | Sat Mar 6, 2004 | Physician Golgi, for whom Golgi bodies are named | Ed Early |
| CAPTION | Sun May 15, 2022 | Underwriting? | Daniel Mauer |
| DIANAPRINCE | Mon Jan 4, 2021 | Identity of 61-Across | Kathy Wienberg |
| DOTHEHUSTLE | Fri Jun 15, 2018 | Perform a disco dance | Sam Ezersky |
| FAKEDEEP | Tue Apr 30, 2019 | Pretentious, in modern lingo | Erik Agard |
| FALLSAPART | Mon May 8, 1995 | With 29 Down, unravels | Deborah Trombley |
| FIGHTCLUB | Mon May 14, 2018 | 1999 Brad Pitt movie hinted at by the beginnings of 17-, 21-, 39- and 52-Across | Andrea Carla Michaels |
| GUMERASER | Wed May 28, 2008 | Artist's smudge remover | C. W. Stewart |
| HOWISITPOSSIBLE | Sat Mar 25, 2000 | With 58-Across, a query from George Carlin | David J. Kahn |
| INABOX | Tue Oct 25, 2022 | How breakfast cereal is usually packaged | Ashleigh Silveira and Nick Shephard |
| KEYSTONES | Fri Dec 17, 2004 | Linchpins | Manny Nosowsky |
| LASTHOPE | Tue Jan 16, 2024 | If this is exhausted, all is lost | Marshal Herrmann |
| LIBYANS | Sun Jan 26, 2014 | "Back to the Future" villains | Daniel A. Finan |
| MAKEA | Mon Mar 25, 1996 | ___face (grimace) | F. & L. Sabin |
| MOUNTAIN | Mon Apr 1, 2024 | Alpinist's activity, literally? | Alan Arbesfeld |
| MRNA | Sat Dec 28, 2024 | Kind of vaccine | Sam Berriman |
| NONTRADITIONAL | Sun Oct 18, 2009 | Like 43-Down's design for 23-/29-Across | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| NOONECARES | Sat Mar 16, 2024 | "Let me play the world's smallest violin for you" | Carly Schuna |
| OUTLAWRY | Mon Sep 11, 2006 | Criminal activity | Lynn Lempel |
| PAYASYOUGO | Sat Oct 8, 2016 | Type of mobile phone plan | Julian Lim |
| PEPI | Sun Dec 21, 1997 | Name of two ancient Egyptian kings | Frances Hansen |
| PHOTOSYNTHESIZE | Fri Apr 22, 2022 | Soak up the sun, say | Daniel Sheremeta |
| PIQUANT | Mon Jan 1, 2018 | Pleasingly tangy | Matthew Sewell |
| REDDAISY | Sat Apr 11, 1998 | Plant also known as orange hawkweed | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| REGNANT | Fri Jul 25, 2025 | Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla | Fritz Juhnke |
| RINGPOPS | Mon Jun 18, 2018 | Candy suckers in the form of jewelry | Ross Trudeau |
| SENIORMOMENTS | Fri Dec 8, 2023 | What old memories often cause | Robert Logan |
| SOLDIEROFFORTUNE | Thu Jan 30, 2025 | Mercenary | Joe Marquez |
| SOUGHED | Sun Apr 4, 1999 | Murmured softly | Richard Silvestri |
| THANKSATON | Thu Oct 28, 2021 | "I really appreciate it!" | Alan Massengill |
| THERA | Thu Feb 16, 1995 | Volcanic island in the Aegean | Christopher Hurt |
| TOURDATE | Tue Jun 5, 2018 | Line on a band T-shirt, maybe | Peter Gordon |
| TRACKEDDOWN | Sat Oct 30, 2021 | Found through searching | Michael Hawkins |
| VALERA | Thu Feb 22, 1996 | Irish statesman Eamon De___ | C. Deodene |