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 50,540 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCLAIMS | Fri Jan 16, 2015 | Hails | Michael Wiesenberg |
| ARENOSE | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | Gritty | Frank Longo |
| ASSBACKWARDS | Sun Feb 23, 2025 | Totally the wrong way ... or what's found in 79-Across? | Daniel Grinberg and Rafael Musa |
| BAHAMAMAMA | Fri Feb 22, 2019 | Rum drink popular at beach bars | Daniel Nierenberg |
| BITSTREAM | Thu Feb 6, 2020 | Sequence of 0's and 1's | Jake Halperin |
| CARBARN | Fri Nov 6, 2015 | Bus and trolley shelter | Ian Livengood |
| DISGRACED | Sat Jun 8, 1996 | In the doghouse | M. Shenk |
| DOGKISS | Wed Aug 20, 2025 | Slobbery smooch | Victor Schmitt |
| DUMBANDDUMBERER | Sun Apr 26, 2009 | 2003 sequel to a popular 1994 comedy | Trip Payne |
| ELASTICBANDS | Sun Apr 1, 2018 | Stretchable wrappers | Sam Ezersky |
| EMPHASIZED | Sun Jul 25, 1999 | LIAR | Charles M. Deber |
| FEMMES | Fri Dec 24, 1999 | French women | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| FIVESTORYWALKUP | Tue Nov 7, 2000 | First residence (option 2) | David Levinson Wilk |
| GAMESHOWNETWORK | Sat Apr 30, 2022 | Its slogan "Get Smarter Now" matches its initials | Joe DiPietro |
| HONORING | Sat Jul 15, 2000 | Eulogist's activity | David J. Kahn |
| HORRORFLICK | Sat Nov 11, 2017 | What "It" is | George Barany and Michael Shteyman |
| HOTTEAS | Wed Sep 9, 2015 | Some brewed beverages | Michael Hawkins |
| IMAFOOL | Sat Sep 15, 2018 | "D'oh!" | David Liben-Nowell |
| JEWELLER | Sat Apr 23, 1994 | Glyptologist | Manny Nosowsky |
| KRAAL | Tue Sep 12, 2006 | Rural village in South Africa | James R. Leeds |
| LANOLINS | Sat Nov 8, 1997 | Wool fats | Jim Page |
| LASHEDINTO | Fri Jan 11, 2002 | Yelled at | Mark Diehl |
| LOVEINAMIST | Sun Dec 14, 2008 | Flower typically given to Neeson? | Trip Payne |
| LYNCHING | Wed Sep 11, 1996 | The Ox-Bow Incident, e.g. | B. E. Quigley |
| MCCANN | Wed Feb 27, 2002 | Broadway producer Liz, Tony winner for "Elephant Man" and "Amadeus" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| MINIMUMWAGE | Sun Jun 30, 2013 | Money raised by members of Congress? | Alex Vratsanos and Jeff Chen |
| NATURALRESOURCE | Fri Sep 26, 1997 | Timber or water, for instance | Chuck Deodene |
| NEWYORKMARATHON | Thu Nov 2, 2017 | Event held on the first Sunday in November, and whose path is recreated in this puzzle | Peter Sagal and Mike Selinker |
| NIMBUSCLOUD | Tue Mar 12, 2019 | Bringer of rain | Jules Markey |
| NONESUCH | Tue Apr 2, 2002 | Paragon | Janice M. Putney |
| PRECLUDED | Tue Nov 27, 2007 | Made impossible | Julie Ann Bowling |
| SCRUBSUITS | Sun Mar 31, 2019 | Outfits in the operating room | Andrew J. Ries |
| SHOTOFF | Tue Mar 27, 2018 | Launched, as a missile | Peter Koetters |
| SINGLESTREAMING | Mon Oct 23, 2023 | Recycling option that collects paper, plastics and metals together [2010s to present] | Stella Zawistowski |
| STOPSPLAY | Wed Dec 7, 2016 | Blows the whistle | David Steinberg |
| STROMBERG | Thu Feb 15, 2001 | "The Thin Man" producer Hunt ___ | David Ainslie Macleod |
| TODAYYEARSOLD | Fri Dec 5, 2025 | Age at which you just learned something you should have realized before, facetiously | James McCarron |
| VEEPSTAKES | Thu Sep 21, 2017 | Quadrennial U.S. occurrence | Matt Ginsberg |
| VESTMENTS | Sun Jul 6, 2008 | Clergy attire | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| VINERIES | Sat Dec 9, 2006 | Locales for trellises | Robert H. Wolfe |