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 50,847 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACIDTABS | Sun Mar 16, 2025 | Doses of a certain hallucinogen | Paul Coulter |
| BATTERSBOX | Fri Jul 4, 2025 | Spot to swing from | Colin Adams |
| BETTERAT | Wed May 10, 2017 | More skilled in | Ned White |
| BRISKER | Thu Apr 19, 2007 | More invigorating | Henry Hook |
| BYNO | Mon Oct 12, 2009 | ___ means (not at all) | Richard Chisholm |
| CHINAROSE | Fri Jan 24, 1997 | Garden bloomer | D. J. Kahn |
| COWPATTY | Sat Mar 24, 2001 | Pasture item | Mark Diehl |
| DEFICIENCY | Fri Oct 16, 1998 | Shortfall | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| FLATCAP | Wed May 12, 2021 | Short-brimmed hat known as a bunnet in Scotland | Tracy Gray |
| FOLLICLE | Fri Feb 28, 2025 | Hair-raising thing? | Michael Lieberman |
| FORESEER | Fri Apr 8, 2005 | Chiromancer | Manny Nosowsky |
| FORTUNATE | Sun Jul 18, 2021 | Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth | Jesse Goldberg |
| HAIRPIECE | Sat Aug 13, 2005 | Overhead covering | Bob Peoples |
| HEDGEDIN | Thu Apr 25, 2024 | Surrounded | Hanh Huynh |
| HINKY | Sun Apr 28, 2024 | Suspicious, informally | Mike Ellison |
| HITBACK | Fri Mar 1, 2019 | Retaliate | Zhouqin Burnikel |
| HITSHOME | Fri Aug 15, 1997 | Has real relevance | Joe DiPietro |
| HRAPBROWN | Wed Oct 23, 1996 | Black activist of the 60's | R. Norris |
| JUMPSFOR | Sun Nov 29, 1998 | Tries to get by leaping | Matt Gaffney |
| KIASORENTO | Fri Jun 12, 2015 | Toyota Highlander alternative | David Steinberg |
| LIMBURGER | Thu Jul 21, 2011 | One trying to shake a leg, for instance? | Michael Sharp |
| LOOKIELOO | Tue Sep 16, 2025 | A shopper, not a buyer, informally | Jonathan Daly |
| LOWERING | Sun Aug 10, 2008 | Dimming | Will Nediger |
| MICHAELPHELPS | Wed Sep 3, 2008 | Subject of this puzzle | David J. Kahn |
| MICROBLADING | Fri Jul 31, 2020 | Eyebrow-filling technique | Claire Rimkus and Erik Agard |
| NOSUCHTHING | Fri Jul 24, 2009 | It doesn't exist | Patrick Berry |
| NOWIKNOWMYABCS | Thu Mar 29, 2012 | Words sung to the beginning of 41-/39-Across | Milo Beckman |
| OLIVETREES | Thu Apr 11, 2024 | Subjects in a series of van Gogh landscape paintings | Dan Caprera |
| PEGGING | Sun Mar 7, 1999 | Identifying | Randolph Ross |
| PREX | Thu Jun 19, 2014 | School head, slangily | Timothy Polin |
| REDHILLS | Sat Dec 24, 2005 | Prairie region in Kansas rich in gypsum and iron | Byron Walden |
| SAYGOODNIGHTGRACIE | Sun Nov 10, 2013 | George Burns | Alan Olschwang |
| SCLEROSIS | Tue Sep 11, 2012 | Medical hardening | Kenneth Leeser |
| SHAGGYDOG | Sat Jul 31, 2004 | Kind of story | Byron Walden |
| SHARKFIN | Sun May 31, 2015 | Seafood soup base | Tom McCoy |
| SONGCYCLE | Sat Jun 21, 2014 | Berlioz's "Les Nuits d'Été," e.g. | Brad Wilber and Byron Walden |
| SPELLINGBEE | Sat Jul 4, 2015 | Character-building event? | Sam Ezersky |
| TAKESABET | Sat Feb 14, 2026 | Puts one's money on the line | David Karp |
| THEPX | Tue Feb 16, 2021 | Where G.I.s go to shop | Johanna Fenimore |
| UNCOUNTED | Sun Oct 2, 2011 | Like invalid ballots | Eric Berlin |