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 50,732 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGEDCHEESE | Sat May 3, 2025 | Manchego curado or Asiago d'allevo | Michael Lieberman |
| ANDNOT | Sun May 16, 2010 | Excepting | Matt Ginsberg |
| BACKORDERED | Tue Oct 20, 2020 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues | Jeff Chen |
| BIGRAMS | Sun Jan 30, 2011 | Two-letter combinations | Kevin G. Der and Jessica A. Hui |
| BRUNCHMENU | Fri May 19, 2023 | Its offerings end around 2 p.m. | David Distenfeld |
| BUYAMERICAN | Tue Nov 12, 2019 | Stick with U.S.-made products | Gabrielle Friedman and Jakob Weisblat |
| CANONIC | Sat Apr 2, 1994 | Authorized, in a way | Manny Nosowsky |
| CASUIST | Sun Apr 29, 2012 | Student of morality | Tracy Gray |
| CHARTAE | Sat Dec 25, 1993 | Medicinal paper strips | Rand H. Burns |
| COUNTRY | Sun May 11, 2014 | Mother ___ | Peter A. Collins |
| CRANKIT | Sun Jun 16, 2024 | "Turn up the volume!" | Chandi Deitmer and Wyna Liu |
| DATACENTER | Fri Apr 21, 2023 | Where servers work around the clock | Erica Hsiung Wojcik and Matthew Stock |
| DOBEDOBEDO | Wed Feb 5, 2020 | Nonsense line sung by Frank Sinatra in "Strangers in the Night" | Ross Trudeau |
| DUMBWAITERS | Sun May 8, 1994 | Kitchen contraptions | Ralph G. Beaman |
| EDMUNDHILLARY | Sun Sep 4, 2022 | *Mount Everest scaler | Tracy Gray |
| EMOPHILIPS | Thu May 3, 2001 | Speaker of the quip starting at 20-Across | Trip Payne |
| ETAGES | Sun May 22, 1994 | French stories | Randolph Ross |
| FAKESMILE | Sat Aug 20, 2011 | Something one might be forced to wear at work | Byron Walden |
| GAOLBREAK | Sat Oct 14, 2006 | Reading event? | Byron Walden |
| GEOCENTRICORBIT | Sat Apr 16, 2022 | Travel around the world | Hemant Mehta |
| GETOFFONTHERIGHTFOOT | Sun Nov 20, 2022 | Dextropodophiles ... | Joe Deeney |
| GOODGUESS | Mon Aug 23, 2021 | "You were close with that response" | Bruce Haight |
| HARASSMENT | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | Badgering | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| INFESTERS | Sun Apr 1, 2001 | Vermin | Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon |
| LEGALTEAMS | Mon Sep 1, 2014 | Groups hired for high-profile cases | Allan E. Parrish |
| LETTERBOX | Sat Sep 13, 2014 | TV screen format | Josh Knapp |
| MAHJONGTILE | Mon Jul 13, 2020 | Game piece on which 20-, 33- or 39-Across might be pictured | Erik Agard |
| MAKESWORSE | Fri Apr 23, 2004 | Aggravates | Alan Olschwang |
| MAKINGARUNFORIT | Fri Apr 12, 2013 | In flight? | Patrick Berry |
| NEUTRONS | Fri Aug 29, 1997 | Atomic bits | Mark Diehl |
| OUTOFSTEP | Fri May 26, 2006 | Marching sloppily | Mike Torch |
| PERCENTSIGN | Thu Jan 6, 2011 | *Symbol above a 5 | Mike Nothnagel |
| PORKPIEHAT | Sat Apr 16, 2011 | Buster Keaton trademark | Robert H. Wolfe |
| SCHOLARSHIP | Fri May 26, 2023 | Knowledge, or a means to acquire it | Hemant Mehta |
| SHOOTEM | Thu Feb 3, 1994 | _____-up (film genre) | A.J. Santora |
| SLABBING | Mon Jul 24, 2017 | Applying thickly, with "on" | Peter Gordon |
| SURECURE | Sat Jan 11, 2025 | Well, that works! | Ryan McCarty |
| TAXFREE | Wed Dec 13, 2017 | Like income from municipal bonds, usually | Benjamin Kramer |
| TOSAM | Sun Jul 16, 2017 | "Life According ___" (Emmy-winning documentary) | Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller |
| TREEFUL | Wed Dec 27, 1995 | Whole lot of apples | David J. Kahn |