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 51,133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APCARTER | Sat Mar 25, 2006 | Patriarch of the "First Family of Country Music" | Byron Walden |
| BEAVERHAT | Sun Apr 11, 2021 | Frontiersman's headgear | Dick Shlakman and Will Nediger |
| CABLEGUY | Sun Dec 7, 2025 | Samuel Morse? | Kate Jensen |
| CHANGEOFADDRESS | Sun Apr 1, 2012 | Golf club repositioning? | Patrick Merrell |
| CRAFTPROJECT | Fri Sep 16, 2022 | Making paper flowers, e.g. | Juliana Tringali Golden |
| DEVILRAYS | Wed Jul 22, 2015 | Tropicana Field team renamed in 2008 | Peter A. Collins |
| DEVILSADVOCATE | Sun Dec 12, 1993 | Hades newspaper? | Cathy Millhauser |
| DOWNCOMFORTER | Tue Jun 14, 2011 | Thick alternative to a blanket | Doug Peterson and Angela Olson Halsted |
| DRINKME | Sat Mar 18, 2006 | Label obeyed by Alice | Patrick Berry |
| ECOLIBACTERIA | Tue Jun 18, 1996 | Dangerous strain | E. C. Gorski |
| GOBBLEUP | Wed Aug 27, 2025 | Devour | Zhou Zhang |
| GRIZZLIES | Tue Jan 30, 2007 | Scary bears | Nancy Salomon |
| INENGLISH | Sat Dec 12, 2015 | How the operas "Artaxerxes" and "Iolanthe" are usually performed | Byron Walden |
| INTHECLEARING | Thu Jan 29, 1998 | 1962 Robert Frost collection | Frances Hansen |
| LESSEROF | Thu Jan 5, 2012 | ___ two evils | Dan Schmiedeler |
| LIVEDJ | Sun Oct 1, 2023 | Entertainment at many a wedding | Jeffrey Lease |
| MAPO | Mon Aug 17, 2026 | ___ tofu (Sichuan dish) | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| MEDIOCRE | Sat Apr 6, 2024 | Nothing to write home about | Byron Walden |
| NINETYFIVE | Tue Oct 14, 2008 | See 20-Across | Lucy Gardner Anderson |
| NODDEDAT | Mon Dec 4, 2023 | Silently greeted | Sean Ziebarth |
| OPTICKS | Sun Sep 25, 2022 | Sir Isaac Newton work on the fundamentals of light | Meghan Morris |
| PACKLIGHT | Mon Apr 26, 2010 | Common advice to travelers | Lynn Lempel |
| PERSONNELFILE | Sun Dec 24, 2023 | Record kept on an employee | Drew Schmenner |
| PILOTSCRIPT | Fri Oct 13, 2017 | Initial challenge for certain screenwriters | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| PRACTICABLE | Thu Aug 4, 2016 | Realistic | Jonathan M. Kaye |
| RAILROADSTATIONS | Sat Jun 21, 2025 | Training facilities? | Christina Iverson and Doug Peterson |
| RECOILLESSRIFLE | Sat Jul 12, 2003 | Lightweight antitank gun | Manny Nosowsky |
| SNEAKPEEKS | Fri Aug 30, 2019 | Previews | Trent H. Evans |
| SNOOKERCUE | Sun Nov 22, 2015 | British pool stick | Samuel A. Donaldson and Jeff Chen |
| SPRINGHASSPRUNG | Wed Mar 6, 2019 | Cry when warmer weather returns | Mary Lou Guizzo and Erik Agard |
| STOCKERS | Fri May 4, 2001 | Grocery store workers | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| TAKESLIBERTIES | Sun Jun 6, 1999 | Isn't cautious (with) | David J. Kahn |
| TEETERONTHEEDGE | Fri Aug 24, 2018 | Flirt with disaster | Roland Huget |
| THEEI | Sat Mar 18, 1995 | "Of _____ Sing" | Manny Nosowsky |
| THEGOP | Tue Apr 21, 2020 | Republicans, collectively | Andrew Kingsley |
| THEREANDBACKAGAIN | Sun Dec 1, 2013 | Round trip ... or the subtitle of "The Hobbit" | Alan DerKazarian |
| TURNSTILES | Sun Mar 21, 2010 | Prepares to play Scrabble? | Adam Fromm |
| UNLIMITEDBUDGET | Thu Jun 10, 2010 | 9-Across + 26-Down | Mike Nothnagel |
| WHATDOYOUEXPECT | Sat Aug 10, 2019 | Response to someone with unrealistic hopes | Anna Gundlach and Erik Agard |
| WOODROW | Thu Feb 20, 2014 | First name of a former president ... or, read another way, what each of the shaded lines is | Zhouqin Burnikel and Don Gagliardo |