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 50,873 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHIPOFFTHEOLDBLOCK | Sun Apr 1, 2012 | Wedge shot from a worn-out practice range platform? | Patrick Merrell |
| ADMITTING | Sat Jun 7, 1997 | Conceding | Martin Schneider |
| ANTIMONY | Sun Mar 22, 2026 | Sb, on the periodic table | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| ASMUCH | Wed Feb 14, 2024 | In the same quantity | Ella Dershowitz |
| ASSAULTED | Sun Jul 18, 2004 | Set upon | Seth A. Abel |
| AUVIN | Sat Oct 9, 2010 | Coq ___ | Joe Krozel |
| BADMOUTHS | Fri Jul 28, 2023 | Trashes | Rafael Musa and Hoang-Kim Vu |
| BEWAILS | Wed Apr 30, 1997 | Loudly laments | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| BLINDERS | Wed Dec 29, 2004 | Horse focuser | Jay Giess |
| BOSTONLETTUCE | Mon Nov 22, 2010 | Meal money in Massachusetts? | David Poole |
| BRANDNAMEPRODUCTS | Sun Nov 24, 2019 | Not generics | Frank Longo |
| CHICKENHEARTED | Tue Aug 20, 1996 | Yellow | S. Spadaccini |
| CHOOSERS | Tue Jul 30, 2002 | Picky people? | Sherry O. Blackard |
| DISLOCATION | Sun Dec 3, 2006 | Where we be? | Patrick Merrell |
| DOESASOLID | Sun Jan 26, 2025 | Helps, informally | Rich Proulx |
| DORBEETLE | Sun Jan 29, 1995 | June bug | Bryant White |
| DUSTINHOFFMAN | Thu Apr 8, 1999 | See 20-Across and 54-Across | David J. Kahn |
| EXCUSEZMOI | Sat Dec 14, 2024 | Cutesy expression borrowed from French | Owen Bergstein |
| FOURSEASONS | Sun Dec 31, 2006 | 1981 Alan Alda comedy, with "The" | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| INASCRAPE | Thu Mar 17, 2016 | Up the creek | David Woolf |
| LAXNESS | Sun Feb 4, 2001 | Inattention | Frank A. Longo |
| MARCHES | Wed Apr 19, 1995 | Subject of this puzzle | Alfio Micci |
| MEDIEVALROMANCE | Sat Aug 17, 2002 | Damsel-in-distress tale, maybe | Frank Longo |
| ONEBELOWPAR | Sun Mar 4, 2007 | *Where to find para in the dictionary | Randolph Ross |
| PATEK | Mon Apr 3, 2017 | ___ Philippe (Swiss watchmaker) | Agnes Davidson and Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PINKEST | Fri Feb 1, 2008 | Tickled the most? | Doug Peterson |
| PROACTIVE | Sat Feb 11, 1995 | On the offensive | Randolph Ross |
| PUTSINATRANCE | Wed Nov 12, 2008 | Hypnotizes | Peter A. Collins |
| PUTTOANEND | Sat Sep 5, 2015 | Halted | Byron Walden |
| QUIZZICALLOOK | Sat Feb 22, 2020 | Expression of one at sea, perhaps | Trenton Charlson |
| RAPTURED | Tue Mar 6, 2001 | Ecstatic | Ed Early |
| ROUTEMAN | Wed Apr 25, 2007 | Worker who makes rounds | John Farmer |
| SCARYFACE | Sun Apr 23, 2000 | Halloween mask? | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| SCOTTBAIO | Mon Mar 8, 2004 | Co-star of 36-Down | Allan E. Parrish |
| SHRIKES | Thu Dec 8, 2022 | Butcher birds | Grant Thackray |
| SMALTO | Fri Apr 6, 2001 | Colored glass used in mosaic | David J. Kahn |
| VEGANPIZZA | Thu Mar 9, 2017 | Pie made with dairy-free cheese, maybe | Jeremy Newton |
| WESLEYANGRADUATE | Thu Mar 25, 2004 | One who went to school in Middletown, Conn. | David Liben-Nowell and Ryan O'Donnell |
| WHOLELOTTALOVE | Tue Nov 11, 1997 | Led Zeppelin hit, 1969 | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| YOUOWEME | Fri May 17, 2013 | Favor doer's comment | Josh Knapp |