The Clue
Like a compliant cat (4 letter answer)
The Answer
RARE
Tags
Notes
The answer RARE is very common and appears about once every 36 puzzles.
Related Clues
Choice
Distinctive
Exceptional
Infrequent
Precious
Recherché
Scarce
Singular
Thin
Underdone
Adjective for Jonson
Almost extinct
Excellent, as wine
Hardly seen
Like cerium
Like praseodymium
Meat request
Not dense
Numismatist's classification
Order to a chef
Red inside
Seldom seen
Of special excellence
Steak order
Unusually excellent
Word for Jonson
Like Ben Jonson
Like a blue lobster
Like a blue rose
Like certain books
Like "a day in June"
Like snow in Tampa
Like some hamburgers
Not well done
Opposite of well done
Still red, as a steak
Seen once in a blue moon
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"