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The Clue
Most charming (9 letter answer)
The Answer
QUAINTEST
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The answer QUAINTEST is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
QUAINT as an adjective:
1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
2. very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
3. (old-time, quaint, olde worlde) = attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"