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 50,620 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AFRICANANTELOPE | Thu Feb 13, 1997 | What's GNU? | F. Longo |
| AMINOGROUP | Thu Aug 10, 2017 | -NH2 attachment, in chemistry | John E. Bennett and Jeff Chen |
| ASDRYASABONE | Sun May 27, 2012 | Severely parched | Byron Walden |
| AXILLAS | Sun Apr 4, 2010 | Armpits | Bob Klahn |
| BALLTHEJACK | Fri Jun 7, 2013 | Go for broke | Ed Sessa |
| BOYPROBLEMS | Sun Jan 3, 2021 | Subject of some teen gossip sessions | Paolo Pasco |
| CRENNAS | Thu May 15, 1997 | "Rambo" actor Richard and kin | Mark Elliot Skolsky |
| CRUISESBY | Sun Feb 8, 2015 | Easily defeats, in sports | Jeremy Newton |
| DRESSDOWNDAYS | Tue Oct 17, 2023 | Casual office occasions | Dominic Grillo |
| ETTAJAMES | Mon Sep 23, 2024 | "At Last" jazz singer | Freddie Cheng |
| FAILINGSTUDENTS | Fri Oct 16, 2015 | One measure of a school's success | Joe Krozel |
| FLAMINGOS | Wed Sep 30, 1998 | Tropical waders | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| FOOLSSELDOMDIFFER | Sun Aug 30, 2015 | "Great minds think alike, but ..." | Lee Taylor |
| FUDDY | Fri Sep 30, 2005 | Stuffy sort, in slang | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| GRANDFORKS | Tue Aug 22, 2017 | Red River Valley city in the upper Midwest | Timothy Polin |
| GRIZZLY | Wed Sep 8, 2010 | Yellowstone sighting | Tracy Gray |
| HADABIT | Wed Apr 23, 2008 | Ate, but not much | Stephen Edward Anderson |
| HELLOSTRANGER | Mon Oct 30, 2006 | Comment upon bumping into an old friend, #1 | Nancy Salomon |
| JOHNMCENROE | Sat Dec 12, 2015 | German-born American tennis star who won 17 Grand Slam singles and doubles titles | Byron Walden |
| KEELEY | Sun Mar 6, 2022 | P.R. consultant on "Ted Lasso" | Matthew Stock and Will Nediger |
| KRISTINSCOTTTHOMAS | Sun Mar 10, 2024 | "The English Patient" actress | Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock |
| LIFEBELTS | Thu Apr 24, 2014 | Flotation gear | Stanley Newman |
| MELTEDCHOCOLATE | Fri Dec 6, 2013 | Ganache ingredient | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| MILETIME | Wed Mar 22, 2023 | Important number for a middle-distance runner | Madeline Kaplan |
| MOOSECALLS | Sat Sep 10, 2005 | Hunters' decoys | David J. Kahn |
| MULATTO | Sat Jul 26, 2014 | Eliza in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," e.g. | Julian Lim |
| NOISECANCELLING | Fri Jul 2, 2021 | Like some headphones | Brooke Husic and Ada Nicolle |
| PLAYERPIANO | Sun Jun 6, 1999 | Old-time entertainer | David J. Kahn |
| RAPTURED | Tue Mar 6, 2001 | Ecstatic | Ed Early |
| ROSELEAVES | Sat Jul 17, 2010 | Bouquet greenery | Mark Diehl |
| SHAKEITUP | Tue Nov 22, 2005 | Beatles command, baby, in "Twist and Shout" | Nancy Salomon |
| STATEMOTTOS | Fri Oct 12, 2018 | "Hope" and "Friendship," for two | Erik Agard and Bruce Haight |
| TENURETRACK | Fri Jun 3, 2022 | Path at a university | Robyn Weintraub |
| THEPIEDPIPEROFHAMELIN | Sun Jun 20, 2004 | Leader of the pack hidden in this puzzle? | Manny Nosowsky |
| TOERAG | Mon Dec 31, 2018 | Scoundrel, in British slang | Brian Thomas |
| TREETAGS | Sat Jul 17, 2010 | Nursery IDs | Mark Diehl |
| TRUMPETERSWAN | Thu Feb 29, 2024 | Esha Datta | |
| UFOLOGISTS | Sat Apr 15, 2023 | Ones tracking disc-overies? | Kameron Austin Collins |
| WEIGHER | Sun Dec 30, 2012 | Scale | Steve Savoy |
| XXXIX | Wed Mar 20, 2013 | Super Bowl played in 2005 | Raymond C. Young |