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 50,634 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AARONITES | Sat Oct 15, 1994 | Descendants of Moses' brother | Randolph Ross |
| ANGLEPARKING | Sat Feb 1, 2020 | Option for downtown streets | Mark Diehl |
| ATQUE | Sat Aug 3, 1996 | And, to Caesar | A. D. Cover |
| BARITONECLEFS | Fri Sep 8, 1995 | Sheet music symbols | A.J. Santora |
| BSINGLES | Sun Apr 8, 2007 | Secondary competitions, in some tennis tournaments | Byron Walden |
| CHILDPRODIGY | Mon May 21, 2018 | Wunderkind | Hannah Slovut |
| CHOOKSUNGTAN | Sun Dec 25, 1994 | Season's greetings from Seoul | Randolph Ross |
| DUOLINGO | Wed Nov 22, 2023 | Learning app with an owl mascot | Will Pfadenhauer |
| FINSTA | Wed Sep 27, 2023 | Second social media account for posting private jokes and such, informally | Scott Koenig |
| FOOTBRAKE | Sat Jun 28, 1997 | It stops when it's depressed | Bob Klahn |
| FORGERS | Wed Oct 12, 2016 | Ones defrauding museums | Jeff Chen |
| FUNDY | Fri Dec 8, 2000 | Nova Scotia national park | Bob Klahn |
| GINKS | Sat Jul 16, 2005 | Eccentric guys, slangily | Michael Shteyman |
| HAMMED | Fri Jan 4, 2008 | Overplayed? | Raymond C. Young |
| HANDWRITTEN | Wed May 3, 2000 | Scribbled, e.g. | Nancy Salomon |
| HAROLDPINTER | Thu Jan 8, 2015 | 2005 Nobel-winning playwright | Jacob Stulberg |
| ICEHOCKEYTEAM | Wed Feb 14, 2007 | Hurricanes or Lightning | Paula Gamache |
| IHOPETOGOD | Fri Mar 27, 2020 | "Fingers and toes crossed ..." | Kyle Dolan |
| JOLLITY | Sat Dec 3, 2022 | Good cheer | Kate Hawkins |
| MEALSONWHEELS | Sun Aug 13, 2023 | Cookbook for rotelle lovers? | Manaal Mohammed |
| MONSTROSITY | Mon Nov 17, 2014 | Freak of nature | Tom McCoy |
| NANKIPOO | Fri Jan 9, 1998 | Yum-Yum lover in "The Mikado" | Manny Nosowsky |
| ONTOGENY | Sat Jul 30, 1994 | Development of an organism | Manny Nosowsky |
| OVERSTRESS | Fri Sep 12, 2014 | Put too much weight on | Michael Wiesenberg |
| PARCHED | Tue Apr 30, 2002 | More than thirsty | John F. Hughes |
| PEACEKEEPER | Mon Jan 27, 2014 | *One placed between warring parties | James Tuttle |
| PIANOSONATAS | Sun Jan 26, 2020 | Almost a score of Mozart compositions | Erik Agard |
| PREACHED | Mon Mar 17, 1997 | Delivered a sermon | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| PULLINHERE | Sat Jul 31, 2004 | Request to a cabby | Byron Walden |
| RIGHTTRACK | Sun Nov 27, 2022 | What you're on when you're making progress | Adam Wagner |
| ROSEAGAIN | Sun Sep 11, 2011 | Emulated the phoenix | Kay Anderson |
| RUTLEDGE | Wed Mar 17, 1999 | Lincoln's supposed fiancée Ann | Myles Callum |
| SBALOAN | Sun May 29, 2022 | Govt. aid for a mom-and-pop store | Daniel Bodily and Jeff Chen |
| SUPERIORS | Thu Jan 5, 2006 | Higher-ups | Victor Fleming |
| SWEDISHMEATBALLS | Sun Mar 14, 1999 | KÖTTBULLAR | Martin Schneider |
| THRILLEDTOBITS | Thu Sep 14, 2006 | See note | Karen M. Tracey |
| UNDECLARED | Sat May 25, 2013 | Like some majors and wars | David Steinberg |
| WAGELABORERS | Sat Jul 17, 2021 | Ones exploited in a capitalist system, per Marx | Ryan McCarty |
| WALTDISNEYWORLD | Sat Apr 26, 2014 | Home to Main Street, U.S.A. | Evan Birnholz |
| WIGOUT | Wed Feb 4, 2009 | Freak | Paula Gamache |