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 49,109 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLROOMDANCING | Fri Oct 28, 1994 | Pastime for two | Bryant White |
| BARGINGINON | Fri Jun 10, 2022 | Rudely interrupting | Blake Slonecker |
| BLITZKRIEGBOP | Wed Jun 7, 2017 | Classic 1976 Ramones song that begins "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" | Timothy Polin |
| BROWNDERBY | Tue Jun 11, 1996 | Famed Hollywood eatery, with "the" | G. E. Paul |
| ELDON | Fri Feb 9, 2018 | Iowa town where Grant Wood's "American Gothic" is set | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| ELECTRICITY | Tue Mar 4, 2014 | See 16-Across | Bruce Haight and Peter A. Collins |
| EMAJORETUDE | Tue Jun 18, 1996 | Part of Chopin's Opus 10 | E. C. Gorski |
| EPERGNES | Sat Jul 13, 2002 | Ornate centerpieces | Randolph Ross |
| GENERALMANAGERS | Fri Feb 27, 2009 | Trading posts? | Joe DiPietro |
| GETSWITH | Thu Feb 21, 2019 | Becomes involved in | Sam Trabucco |
| HAPPENUPON | Sat May 8, 2004 | Run into | Bob Peoples |
| HYGIENES | Tue Sep 5, 2000 | Cleanliness regimens | Chris Sallade |
| ISSURETO | Sun Jun 22, 2003 | Definitely will | John Duschatko |
| JOHNI | Wed Mar 14, 2018 | First in a line of 23 popes | Jeff Chen |
| LASTLETTERS | Sat Apr 4, 2009 | Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues | Matt Ginsberg |
| LATINTEST | Fri Dec 12, 2003 | "Amare" might be conjugated on it | Manny Nosowsky |
| LICKED | Sun Mar 8, 2015 | Trounced | Tom McCoy |
| LOIRET | Thu Jun 22, 1995 | Orléans department | Cathy Millhauser |
| MAGNETIZED | Sun Mar 22, 2009 | Made more attractive? | Joon Pahk and Matt Matera |
| MILLING | Sat Apr 5, 2003 | Wandering aimlessly | Patrick Berry |
| MRPERSONALITY | Wed Nov 8, 2006 | Upbeat, outgoing sort | Lee Glickstein and Nancy Salomon |
| NEARDISASTER | Fri Oct 24, 1997 | Close call | Frank Longo |
| ONITSEND | Fri Nov 8, 2019 | How a sofa might be turned for moving | Peter Wentz |
| PUNJABI | Thu Apr 16, 1998 | Language in Rawalpindi | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| RAGINCAJUNS | Fri Apr 5, 2019 | Athletes at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Ryan McCarty |
| RENEWABLE | Fri Mar 18, 2011 | Like wind and solar energy | Patrick Merrell |
| REVAMPS | Sun Jul 16, 2017 | Overhauls | Andrea Carla Michaels and Pete Muller |
| RONDELS | Wed May 18, 1994 | Short poems | Daniel R. Stark |
| ROUGHLY | Mon Jun 7, 2010 | More or less | Lynn Lempel |
| SAFEENVIRONMENT | Wed Jul 22, 2020 | People are protected when they're in it | Peter A. Collins |
| SCAPULAS | Thu Jan 21, 2010 | Shoulder blades | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| SHOWSOMELEG | Wed Oct 26, 2016 | Not dress overmodestly ... or what 18-, 25- and 43-Across each do? | Scott Yut |
| SLICESERVE | Sun May 8, 2016 | Tricky start to a tennis rally | David J. Kahn |
| SOROSIS | Sat Jul 9, 1994 | Women's society | Gerald R. Ferguson |
| THINKINGEVIL | Sat Dec 24, 2005 | Demonizing, with "of" | Byron Walden |
| THUMBONESNOSE | Fri Oct 27, 1995 | Show disdain | Mark Diehl |
| TRAMSTOP | Thu Oct 11, 2012 | Pickup point at an amusement park | Byron Walden |
| URBANITE | Fri Sep 26, 2003 | No provincial | Eric Berlin |
| VAUDEVILLE | Mon Aug 9, 1999 | Old-style entertainment | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| WILIEST | Wed May 18, 2011 | Most slippery | David J. Kahn |