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 50,377 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACTBIG | Sun Nov 7, 2021 | Put on pretensions | Sid Sivakumar |
| BLUEEYED | Sat Feb 10, 2001 | Like most Norwegians | Rich Norris |
| BODEGABAY | Sat Jan 14, 2012 | Coastal setting of "The Birds" | Mark Diehl |
| BYMERESTCHANCE | Sat Dec 17, 2005 | As luck would have it | Patrick Berry |
| CALLSTHETUNE | Fri Jan 13, 2006 | Is in charge | Eric Berlin |
| CONTEMNED | Wed Mar 14, 2007 | Treated with disdain | Peter A. Collins |
| FAMILYROOM | Fri Oct 10, 2008 | TV station? | Kyle Mahowald |
| FILMCRITIC | Sun Jun 27, 2010 | Irate | Michael J. Doran |
| FREEZERBURN | Sat Jun 1, 2024 | Kitchen concern with an oxymoronic name | Eric Warren |
| FRYBREAD | Tue Feb 5, 2019 | Naan-like Native American food | Erik Agard |
| GOTTABOUNCE | Sat Dec 7, 2019 | How a security guard might say goodbye? | Kevin G. Der and Erik Agard |
| HAVEDONE | Sat Jul 29, 2000 | Direct an aide to handle | Rich Norris |
| HEISTED | Thu Jun 9, 2022 | Did a job on | Dan Ziring |
| HEORSHE | Sun Mar 2, 2025 | Binary pronoun options | Adam Wagner |
| HINGEUPON | Mon Oct 3, 2022 | Be determined by | Sarah Sinclair |
| IRADES | Fri Feb 4, 1994 | Decrees | Joe Clonick |
| JUSTAVERAGELOOKING | Sun Feb 6, 2011 | <em>However, this man was balding, gray-haired and ...</em> | David J. Kahn |
| KITTYKELLEY | Sat Oct 19, 2013 | Biographer biographized in "Poison Pen" | Peter Wentz |
| LOWBORN | Sun Aug 31, 2003 | From humble beginnings | Fred Piscop |
| MALEGENES | Sat Jul 8, 1995 | They're on the Y chromosome | Randolph Ross |
| NOWWEARESIX | Sun Apr 23, 1995 | A.A. Milne title | Randolph Ross |
| ONIONDOMES | Wed Aug 5, 2020 | *Colorful architectural features of Moscow's St. Basil Cathedral | Michael Paleos |
| OVERSELL | Tue Apr 1, 2008 | Push too hard, as an argument | Manny Nosowsky |
| PACKSIN | Sun Sep 24, 1995 | Stuffs | Randolph Ross |
| PAULKERSEY | Thu Sep 20, 2001 | Charles Bronson's "Death Wish" role | David J. Kahn |
| PIANOROLLS | Thu Nov 30, 2023 | Cylinders like the 20,000+ housed in London's Musical Museum | Jeffrey Martinovic and Jeff Chen |
| PLAYBY | Sun Aug 28, 1994 | Pass, as on the golf course | Randolph Ross |
| PLAYSOUT | Sun Mar 13, 2011 | Finishes | Patrick Berry |
| PRETENDERS | Fri Mar 17, 2023 | Wannabes | Carter Cobb |
| PRISONCAMP | Sat Sep 27, 1997 | Geneva Convention concern | Matt Gaffney |
| ROLLONDEODORANT | Fri Aug 9, 1996 | Protection, of sorts | D. Tuller |
| SKYSCRAPER | Fri Sep 10, 1999 | Storied locale | Dana Motley |
| SNOOZEFESTS | Sat Dec 2, 2023 | Bores | Royce Ferguson |
| SPINCLASSES | Sun Apr 6, 2025 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues | Kareem Ayas |
| SWINGSHIFT | Sun Aug 13, 1995 | Batter's new strategy? (1984) | Nancy Salomon |
| TOPAZQUARTZ | Fri Sep 28, 2001 | Citrine | Peter Gordon |
| TRIESHARD | Sat Oct 4, 2008 | Strains | Matt Ginsberg |
| VINA | Thu Dec 26, 1996 | ___ del Mar, Chile | R. H. Burns |
| WILLINGLY | Tue Dec 14, 2010 | Without reluctance | Mark Feldman |
| YOYODIETING | Tue Nov 26, 2013 | Poor weight-loss practice | Don Gagliardo and Zhouqin Burnikel |