The Clue
___ as a blue rose (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RARE
Tags
Notes
The answer RARE is very common and appears about once every 36 puzzles.
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Atypical
Infrequent
One-in-a- million
Recherché
Scarce
Thin
Uncommon
Underdone
Unusual
Almost unique
Beef order
Hard to come by
Hard to find
Highly unusual
Opposite of well
Pink, say
Pink, as a steak
Precious, in a way
Seldom seen
Steak order
Still pink
Very unusual
Word for Jonson
Adjective for a whooping crane
Like Ben Jonson
Like snow in Tampa
Like some coins
Order for roast beef
"For the ___ and radiant maiden": Poe
Red on the inside, as a steak
Still red inside
Word for Ben Jonson
On the hoof, in lunch counter lingo
Like a 1943 copper penny
Like an ivory-billed woodpecker
Like a Liberty gold coin
"So ___" (Jimmy Dorsey hit)
Definition
RARE as an adjective:
1. not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books"
2. recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
3. not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"
4. (rare, uncommon) = marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"
5. (rare, rarefied, rarified) = having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
6. (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast beef"