The Clue
Kind of treat (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RARE
Tags
Notes
The answer RARE is very common and appears about once every 36 puzzles.
Related Clues
Choice
Exceptional
Infrequent
One-in-a-million
Recherche
Scarce
Tenuous
Thin
Uncommon
Undone?
Unusual
Almost extinct
Barely done
Burger order
Coin rating
Cooked slightly
Dictionary notation
Hard to find
Like cerium
Like praseodymium
Numismatist's classification
Pink, as a steak
Pink, as steak
Practically unheard-of
Precious, in a way
Seldom seen
Sought by bibliomaniacs
Stamp designation
Steak order
Unusually excellent
Very unusual
Earth or bit preceder
Label in a bibliophile's catalog
Like snow in Tampa
Nearly unique in the world
Of particular interest to a completist
Red on the inside, as a steak
Like a sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker
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"