The Clue
Kind of earth (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RARE
Tags
Notes
The answer RARE is very common and appears about once every 36 puzzles.
Related Clues
Admirable
Choice
Exceptional
Infrequent
One-in-a- million
One-in-a-million
Pinkish
Recherche
Scarce
Singular
Thin
Uncommon
Almost red
Almost unique
Barely done
Choice for steak
Dictionary notation
Facing extinction
Hard to find
Hardly seen
Lightly cooked
Like cerium
Pink, say
Pink, as a steak
Seldom seen
Sought by bibliomaniacs
Stamp designation
Steak order
Thin, as air
Unusually excellent
Bloody, so to speak
Few and far between
Like Ben Jonson
Like a day in June
Like a perfect game
Like some birds
Nearly unique in the world
Once-in-a-blue-moon
Pink, so to speak
Still red, as a steak
Word for Ben Jonson
On the hoof, in lunch counter lingo
How some like their steak
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"