The Clue
Not turning up much (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
Excellent
Exceptional
Fine
Infrequent
Medium-___
Recherché
Scarce
Uncommon
Underdone
Unusual
Almost unique
___ as a blue rose
Cooked slightly
Excellent, as wine
Hard to find
Pink inside
Practically unheard-of
Red inside
Reddish, perhaps
Steak order
Still pink
Unusually excellent
Very unusual
Descriptive of Ben Jonson
Earth or bit preceder
Like a compliant cat
Like snow in Tampa
Like an underdone steak
Like white elephants
Once-in-a-blue-moon
"For the ___ and radiant maiden": Poe
Roast beef request
Still red inside
Word for Ben Jonson
Description on many eBay listings
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"