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 50,499 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMERICANELM | Sat Mar 25, 2017 | Species of the Liberty Tree | Sam Ezersky and David Steinberg |
| ANGIETHOMAS | Fri Jul 26, 2024 | Best-selling author of 2017's "The Hate U Give" | Andy Kravis |
| ANIMALTRAINER | Tue Aug 7, 2018 | Job at a circus | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| ANSELS | Sun Jul 7, 2019 | Adams and Elgort | Jack Reuter |
| BRAPAD | Tue Jan 22, 2019 | Bikini insert | John E. Bennett and Jeff Chen |
| CAVORTED | Thu Jan 11, 2007 | Made merry | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| CELLOSUITES | Thu May 28, 2015 | Hits hard + famed spokescow = some Bach compositions | Jeff Chen |
| EVERLYBROTHERS | Tue Feb 27, 2018 | "All I Have to Do Is Dream" singers | Ross Trudeau |
| EXPANSIONTEAMS | Thu Oct 16, 2008 | 20-, 25- and 42-Across, so to speak | Ian Tullis |
| FINNISH | Sun Jul 28, 1996 | Like Sibelius | N. S. Wizer |
| GARYGYGAX | Thu Apr 2, 2009 | Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| GOLDRING | Tue Jan 8, 2019 | *Powerful object in "The Hobbit" | Freddie Cheng |
| GOODDOGGY | Fri May 31, 2019 | Praise that might be dispensed with a treat | Sam Ezersky |
| GULLIBLE | Tue Apr 30, 2019 | Fall-for-anything | Erik Agard |
| HOUSEBOATS | Thu Aug 19, 2021 | Mobile homes of a sort | Oliver Roeder |
| LINEATED | Tue Aug 5, 1997 | Striped | William Bernhardt |
| MAKESGOOD | Mon Sep 29, 2014 | What a local success story does | Eric Sydney Phillips |
| MEGASTAR | Sun Dec 10, 2017 | A-list topper | Erik Agard and Laura Braunstein |
| MELISSAMCCARTHY | Fri Dec 9, 2016 | Player of Molly on "Mike & Molly" | David Phillips |
| METHADONE | Fri Jul 4, 2014 | Addictive analgesic | Patrick Berry |
| MIDDLEWEIGHT | Fri Feb 14, 2003 | Hurricane Carter, for one | M. Francis Vuolo |
| MODERNDANCE | Fri Sep 5, 2014 | Alvin Ailey's field | Joe Krozel |
| NOTBY | Wed May 11, 2005 | ___ a long shot | Kumar Balani and Lou Sabin |
| ODORLESSGAS | Tue Dec 17, 2019 | _xygen _iflu_ _ide | David Levinson Wilk |
| OVERAWED | Sun Apr 11, 2004 | Too wowed for words | Patrick Merrell |
| POPPINGPILLS | Wed Mar 14, 2007 | Self-medicating excessively | Peter A. Collins |
| REDSHIRTS | Tue Dec 8, 2015 | Holds aside for a year, in college sports | Neville Fogarty |
| RIGHTPLACE | Mon Jan 6, 2003 | See 17-Across | Sarah Keller |
| SANFRAN | Sun Oct 8, 2017 | City by the Bay, informally | Erik Agard and Alex Briñas |
| SCHOOLRALLY | Thu Sep 10, 2020 | Event before a college football game [Ninth] | David J. Kahn |
| SPIRED | Sun Oct 9, 2011 | Like most churches | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| STRONGDRINKS | Sun Mar 22, 2015 | They can knock out lightweights | Jeremy Newton |
| TAKEFLIGHT | Fri May 31, 2013 | Get off the ground | Josh Knapp |
| TELETYPISTS | Sat Oct 9, 2004 | Old UPI employees | Byron Walden |
| THESHARPERIMAGE | Thu Mar 3, 2016 | High-tech home gadget company | Andrew Zhou |
| THRASHMETAL | Fri Nov 2, 2018 | Genre for Anthrax and Megadeth | David Steinberg |
| TREASURY | Fri Nov 10, 2017 | Cabinet department | Patrick Berry |
| TWOPARTYSYSTEMS | Tue Sep 3, 2024 | Political configurations suggested by the answers (and their circled letters) at 17-, 24-, 50- and 61-Across? | Alex Eaton-Salners |
| VARICOSE | Sun May 13, 2012 | Swollen, as veins | Ben Tausig |
| WORDORDER | Fri Sep 23, 2011 | Factor affecting Google search results | Mike Nothnagel |