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 50,346 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATAMANS | Sun Dec 11, 1994 | Cossacks chiefs | Wayne Robert Williams |
| ATRICE | Fri Aug 1, 2003 | Instantly, after "in" | Manny Nosowsky |
| BEDANDBOARD | Mon Jan 17, 2005 | Rooming house offering | Alison Donald |
| BIGCOMPANY | Tue Oct 2, 2018 | Megacorporation? [1996, 1970] | Paul Coulter |
| BOUFFANT | Mon Oct 19, 2009 | *Teased hairdo | Lynn Lempel |
| BROCASAREA | Tue May 7, 2019 | Brain region linked to speech | Ross Trudeau |
| CANARYYELLOW | Mon Feb 3, 2014 | Bright color | Sean Dobbin |
| CHINESEAMERICAN | Sat Aug 4, 2001 | Maya Lin or I. M. Pei | Randolph Ross |
| CLOSEKNIT | Fri Mar 6, 2020 | Tight | Caitlin Reid |
| CONOID | Sat Jan 14, 2012 | Dunce-cap-shaped | Mark Diehl |
| DAMENELLIEMELBA | Fri Jan 2, 2004 | Toasted singer? | Sherry O. Blackard |
| DIFFERENTLY | Thu Mar 10, 2011 | See 16-Across | Matt Ginsberg |
| FUTUREPERFECT | Sun Jan 15, 2017 | Utopia? | Joel Fagliano |
| GOANNA | Sat Oct 29, 2016 | Australian monitor lizard | Patrick Berry |
| GOHAYWIRE | Mon Feb 6, 2012 | Malfunction | Tom Pepper |
| GROENING | Fri Aug 12, 2011 | Creator of "The Simpsons" | Julian Lim |
| HELPMENUS | Sun Dec 28, 2014 | Some computer aids | Joe Krozel |
| KITTENHEELS | Fri Jun 26, 2020 | They can give you a bit of a lift | Robyn Weintraub |
| LIVINLAVIDALOCA | Fri Apr 10, 2015 | Ricky Martin hit sung by Puss in Boots and Donkey at the end of "Shrek 2" | David Phillips |
| MINDBOGGLING | Fri Mar 14, 2025 | Beyond comprehension | Brandon Koppy |
| MORAINES | Wed Jan 20, 2016 | Deposits of glacial debris | Herre Schouwerwou |
| NAZCALINES | Sat Apr 20, 2024 | Mysterious ancient geoglyphs in the Peruvian desert | Garrett Chalfin and Andrew Kingsley |
| NEGAWATTS | Tue Dec 11, 2018 | Units of power saved, in modern lingo | Amanda Chung and Karl Ni |
| NEUN | Thu Jul 7, 1994 | Acht, ____, zehn | Ed Early |
| OGDENNASH | Tue Dec 27, 2016 | Humorist who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker" | Herre Schouwerwou |
| ONALLFOURS | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | Crawling, say | Mangesh Ghogre and Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| PERCHES | Fri Aug 27, 2004 | Bar stools, e.g. | Manny Nosowsky |
| PLAGES | Sat Sep 16, 2000 | Bathing beaches | Robert H. Wolfe |
| PLAINES | Sun Jan 21, 1996 | Des___ | R. Wolfe |
| PRINCEFIELDER | Wed Apr 20, 2022 | <em>Aptly named six-time All-Star first baseman</em> | Joseph Greenbaum |
| RAWUMBER | Sun Sep 24, 2006 | Bygone Crayola color | Mark Diehl and Kevin McCann |
| RETURNKEY | Fri Dec 17, 2004 | It enters things | Manny Nosowsky |
| SCHOOLED | Tue Jul 4, 2000 | Taught | Tyler Hinman |
| TANKTOPS | Mon Jul 23, 2007 | Sleeveless shirts | Randall J. Hartman |
| THEBIGBANG | Sat Aug 26, 2017 | Explosive theory? | Peter Wentz |
| THINGSFALLAPART | Sat Nov 26, 2022 | Chinua Achebe novel that's a response to "Heart of Darkness" | Kanyin Ajayi |
| UNCLEBEN | Thu Dec 31, 2015 | Spider-Man's surrogate father | Ben Tausig |
| VENTUREDOUT | Sun Dec 10, 2023 | Went trekking, say | Zachary David Levy and Jeff Chen |
| WORLDSERIESGAME | Wed Oct 7, 2009 | See 57-Across | Tim Wescott |
| YOUNAMEIT | Fri Oct 11, 2024 | "I'll do whatever" | Billy Bratton |