Clues for the word "RARE"
We've had 647 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1899 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of rare
- a. - Early.
- superl. - Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
- superl. - Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
- superl. - Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
- superl. - Thinly scattered; dispersed.
- superl. - Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
Referring Clues
- Steak order
- Seldom seen
- Lightly cooked
- Roast beef request
- Recherche
- Not easy to find
- Opposite of well
- Scarce
- Superfine
- Pinkish, as a steak
- Like hen's teeth
- Pink, as a steak
- Pink, so to speak
- Book classification
- Hard to come by
- Undone?
- Barely done
- Stamp designation
- Not well?
- Dictionary notation
- Pink
- Unusually excellent
- Uncommon
- Pinkish
- Hardly seen
- Like a no-hitter
- Like some coins
- 57-Down request
- Exceptional
- Hard to find
- Reddish, perhaps
- Not common
- Red in the middle
- Reddish
- Like a 1943 copper penny
- One-in-a-million
- Bibliophile's label
- Uncommonly good
- Infrequent
- Facing extinction
- Choice
- Of interest to collectors, say
- Scattered
- Coin classification
- Still pink
- Coin grade
- Medium-___
- Like a 52-Across
- Like a blue rose
- "___ as a winter swallow": Balzac
- Like a compliant cat
- Reddish pink
- Nearly unique in the world
- Seen once in a blue moon
- Not turning up much
- "Suddenly, as ___ things will, it vanished": E. B. Browning
- "For the ___ and radiant maiden": Poe
- Coin rating
- Unwonted
- Endangered
- Pretty pink
- ___ as a blue rose
- Like a white Bengal tiger
- Opposite of well done
- Like one in a million
- With 17-Across, one in a million
- "Bloody"
- Once-in-a-blue-moon
- Like an ivory-billed woodpecker
- Still red inside
- Numismatist's classification
- Pink, say
- Thin
- Barely cooked
- Few and far between
- Like white elephants
- Like a perfect game
- Bloody, so to speak
- Practically unheard-of
- Label in a bibliophile's catalog
- Pink inside
- Like a Liberty gold coin
- Burger order
- Pink, maybe
- Of particular interest to a completist
- Like proverbial hen's teeth
- Like some gases
- Like valuable old coins
- Like the first issue of "Action Comics"
- Order at the restaurant
- Roast beef order
- Hard-to-find
- Like a Mark McGwire triple
- Seldom encountered
- Like a blue moon
- Still mooing, so to speak
- "Still mooing," at a steakhouse
- Singular
- Steakhouse order
- Like a condor in the wild
- Far from frequent
- Barely broiled
- Like endangered species
- Barely grilled
- Collector's guide adjective
- Well alternative
- Endangered, perhaps
- Unusual
- Extraordinary
- Porterhouse order
- Not often observed
- Like terbium or erbium
- Thinly distributed
- How seared tuna is usually cooked
- Not often seen
- Pink, as steak
- Distinctive
- Sporadically spotted
- Like a cold day in August
- Pink in the middle
- Special
- Adjective on "Antiques Roadshow"
- Hardly ubiquitous
- Slightly cooked
- Red inside
- Hard to get
- Tuna orderer's option
- Steakhouse request
- Like collectible coins
- Steak orderer's option
- T-bone specification
- Steak specification
- "And what is so ___ as a day in June?": Lowell
- Tuna steak designation, often
- Ahi specification
- Porterhouse specification
- Briefly broiled
- Porterhouse preference, perhaps
- Tuna order
- Hardly well done
- Like inverted Jenny stamps
- Not at all well done
- Less than medium
- Like a collector's item
- Remarkable
- Steak order with a center like that of 17-, 24-, 38-, 48- and 61-Across
- Like compliments from a perfectionist
- Not seen much
- T-bone order
- Like valued old books
- Of value to collectors
- Steak preference
- Like a once-in-a-blue-moon event
- Like some collectible coins
- Like a 1909-S VDB penny
- Not easily found
- Extremely uncommon
- How some order steak
- One in a million
- Quite uncommon
- Pasta : al dente :: porterhouse : ___
- Very hard to find
- Like blue moons
- Very uncommon
- Unusually great
- Waiter's notation
- Nearly unobtainable
- "Cool in the center"
- Hardly spotted
- Collectible adjective
- More than scarce
- Out of the ordinary
- Far from plentiful
- Tough to get your hands on
- Out-of-print
- Like the spotted owl
- Well-done's opposite
- Almost extinct
- Pink, to a chef
- Almost unique
- Undercooked
- On the pink side
- "___, medium or well-done?"
- Undercooked, to some
- Book collector's category
- Well-done's opposite, in the kitchen
- At a premium
- Far from everyday
- Like praseodymium
- Nearly extinct
- Chophouse request
- Not well-done
- Roast beef request, perhaps
- Atypical
- Nearly unique
- Most uncommon
- "Still mooing," at a steakhouse
- Highly collectible
- Almost unobtainable
- Served raw
- Not well done
- Like a Bigfoot sighting
- Barely done, as steak
- Antiquarian's adjective
- Like barely broiled meat
- Underdone
- Steakhouse pink
- Once-in-a-lifetime
- Definitely not well-done
- Instruction for the chef
- Like an 1864 two cent piece
- Like a black pearl
- Pink or red, e.g.
- Like some finds
- Like hens' teeth
- Answer to a waiter, sometimes
- Like hens' teeth, so to speak
- Like holes-in-one
- Like a perfect game in baseball
- Unique
- Unusually fine
- Like 30 Across
- Way to cook steak
- Still red inside, as a steak
- Steakhouse specification
- "Still mooing"
- Like the Inverted Jenny stamp
- Seldom to be found
- Highly uncommon
- Red
- Like valuable stamps
- In short supply
- Like the T206 Honus Wagner baseball card
- Not quite raw
- Porterhouse request, sometimes
- Like a Liberty Head gold dollar
- Still red, as a steak
- Red on the inside
- Chophouse order
- Steak house specification
- Burger order specification
- Like a Gutenberg Bible
- More red than pink
- ___, medium or well-done
- Infrequently spotted
- Like white rhinos and black swans
- Bloody at the steakhouse
- Prime rib order
- Still red on the inside
- Like no-hitters
- Like once in a blue moon
- Not at all well-done
- Pasta : al dente :: porterhouse : ___
- "Cool in the center"
- Rib-eye request
- Red-to-pinkish
- Like coconuts in Antarctica
- Prime rib preference
- Like a total solar eclipse
- Far from well done
- Meat request
- A bit beyond raw
- Outback order
- With 43-Across, yttrium or scandium
- Like an inside-the-park home run
- Half-baked?
- Like a triple play
- Still pink inside
- Very infrequent
- Like a mint Mickey Mantle rookie card
- Not well-done at all
- Not frequent
- Newsworthy, perhaps
- Personas
- Porterhouse specification, sometimes
- Not frequent
- Like a steak with a red center
- Not medium or well-done
- "The ___ Breed" 1966 western
- Steak choice
- Steakhouse choice
- Quite unusual
- More than uncommon
- Almost raw
- Little-seen
- Like a California condor
- Like a blue lobster
- ___, medium or well done
- Delmonico's order
- Red, as a steak
- Like an unassisted triple play
- Barely cooked, as steak
- Steak option
- "Still mooing," as burgers go
- Very thinly distributed
- ___ bird
- Pinker than medium
- Like a four-leaf clover
- Tough to find
- Like holographic Charizard, in Pokemon
- Like lucid responses on Yahoo! Answers
- Seldom spotted
- Pink, in a steakhouse
- Red in the center
- Like a royal flush
- Like many collectibles
- In ___ form
- Kind of form
- Like a day in June, according to Lowell
- Like a sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker
- Once in a blue moon
- Not found in many stamp collections, say
- Like hurricanes in January
- Steak request
- Word that's music to a collector's ears
- Spotted infrequently
- Very pink
- Beef order
- Description on many eBay listings
- Like some sightings and steaks
- Specification with a steak order
- Order to a chef
- Undercooked, perhaps
- Broiled just a bit
- Medium alternative
- Like some collectibles
- Overused eBay adjective
- Extremely hard to find
- Like erbium or terbium
- Not at all typical
- Of interest to a collector, say
- Rather red
- Covetable to collectors
- Medium ___
- Roast beef request, sometimes
- Not customary
- Like years evenly divisible by four that are not leap years
- Like first editions, often
- Filet mignon order, sometimes
- Like triple plays
- Like some steaks
- Like a 1913 Liberty Head nickel
- In very short supply
- Undercooked, as meat
- Like unassisted triple plays
- Still red, say
- Hard to come across
- Tag in some dictionary definitions
- "Bloody," at a diner
- Undercooked, as steak
- Inimitable
- Still quite red
- "Still mooing," at a diner
- Order to a chef, sometimes
- "On the hoof," in diner lingo
- Of interest to collectors
- One way to serve a steak
- Like a pink steak
- Like black rhinos
- Not medium or well done
- Utterly uncommon
- Like Inverted Jenny postage stamps
- Like N.F.L. games ending in a tie
- Like tritium and triplets
- Prized by collectors
- Ruth's Chris request
- Very scarce
- Very unusual
- How some steaks are cooked
- Like "Inverted Jenny" stamps
- Like a 1909 S VDB penny
- Like walk-off touchdowns
- Highly atypical
- Like albinism
- Like things you don't see every day
- Like white panthers
- Hard to get hold of
- Like pink steak
- Cooked for just a short time
- Like barely cooked steak
- Far from well-done
- In danger of extinction, perhaps
- "Antiques Roadshow" adjective
- Almost never found
- Barbecue order
- Like Mantle rookie cards
- Like certain books
- Word from Old English for "lightly boiled"
- Like blue lobsters
- Like black sheep
- Incredibly hard to find
- Collectible
- U-turn from widely distributed
- Filet mignon order
- Hamburger order
- Occasional
- Isolated
- One way a steak may be prepared
- How some like their steaks cooked
- Opposite of well-done, for steaks
- How some people like their roast beef
- Not in abundance
- Steak style
- Not easy to collect
- Steak preference, for some
- In the pink?
- Pretty bloody
- Seriously pink
- Collectible status
- Like a lightly-cooked steak
- How steak may be cooked
- Real pink
- Just barely on the grill
- Extraordinarily hard to find
- Not an everyday occurrence
- Awfully bloody
- One in a million, e.g.
- Not abundant
- Very hard to collect
- Barely cooked, as a steak
- Seldom found
- Precious
- "I Just Want to Celebrate" band ___ Earth
- ___ Earth
- Out-of-print LPs
- Hard-to-find song
- Motown band ___ Earth
- "Get Ready" ___ Earth
- Obscure album
- Like out-of-print LPs
- (Of meat) red
- Bloody allied soldiers
- (Of meat) lightly cooked
- Excellent case of Rioja leads to riotous evening
- Not well done - extraordinary!
- Gunners and engineers are hard to find
- Artist again exceptional
- Not often seen - underdone
- Red inside like gold dust
- Bloody right - time to get up!
- Not overdone? That's fine!
- Not often still red?
- Bloody (of steaks)
- It's unusual not to be well done
- Occurring seldom
- Scarcely seen
- Turning time right back is almost unheard of
- Scarce as hen's teeth!
- Valuable to collectors, perhaps
- Excellent yet not well done
- What's thin and red in the middle?
- Unusually good
- Found at an antiquarian bookstore, perhaps
- Superb, but not well done?
- Bottom? Then second to bottom's exceptional
- Soldiers are by no means common
- How do you like your 2, almost 1 down?
- Poison without copper is not much done
- Unusual combination of destructive and constructive forces
- It's bloody unusual
- It's unusual to return right on time
- Combination of artist and engineer not often found
- Thin for choice
- Military units have not done well
- Having just been shown the pan is excellent
- Very red, like a blue moon?
- With low level of concentration, so not well done
- Like four-leaf clovers
- Hardly commonplace
- How some like their steak cooked
- Not garden-variety
- Far from common
- Far from abundantly available
- Outback request
- Like steel pennies
- Like a cold day in hell
- Cooked but not much
- Bloody, perhaps
- Recurring only intermittently
- So ___ (Jimmy Dorsey hit)
- Like natural pearls
- Like a double eagle in golf
- Unusual or undercooked (steak)
- Remarkably pink?
- Bloody unusual
- Unusual way to cook steak
- Unusual choice
- Hearts of pirate crew not widely known
- Unusual resistance to song being sung
- Unusual to expose rook rather than bishop
- Seldom seen underdone
- But not that unusual for roast beef?
- Bloody career's ending, time to retire
- Undone?
- Like steak that's been cooked less than "medium"
- Like barely cooked steaks
- Pink, at a steakhouse
- On the endangered species list
- Like white tigers
- Like red diamonds
- Red in the middle, as a steak
- Like $10 gold eagle coins
- Like a 1913 Liberty nickel
- Like a solar eclipse
- Highly infrequent
- Not plentiful at all
- On the endangered list, most likely
- Excellent way to cook steak, very thin
- Like a 1953 Aston Martin
- Like snow leopards
- Like red emeralds
- Occurring once in a blue moon
- Very seldom seen
- Prevalent? Not at all
- Still red in the middle
- Like signatures of William Shakespeare
- Desirable, to a collector
- Almost never encountered
- Like white lions
- Pink-to-red
- Like a steak that's "still mooing"
- Hardly ever spotted
- It's hard to find the right amount of land
- Like albino alligators
- Valuable, perhaps
- Seldom
- Steakhouse option
- More than pink
- Very lightly cooked
- Like the 1998 Pikachu Illustrator card
- Practically nonexistent
- Uncommon and not at all well done
- Undercooked (steak)
- Lightly cooked, as a steak
- Like 1943 copper pennies
- Marine otter descriptor
- Red in the middle, say
- Like some coins and stamps
- Like an exceptionally nice bit of cheese on toast
- Bright pink inside, perhaps
- Not fully cooked
- Thin, as air
- Exceptionally fine rear view
- "Still mooing," as steaks go
- Filet request
- Gunners and sappers are hard to find
- Very few are on the right
- Rawer than pink
- Difficult to find
- Like a Mantle rookie card
- Unlikely
- Like creatures we are running out of
- Like double eagles on links
- Regiment and corps of high quality
- Make a ___ appearance
- Red in the middle, as steak
- Like many old coins
- Not seen every day
- Like hens' teeth, idiomatically
- A bit hard to find in the food line?
- Unusually meaty?
- Not very common
- Cooking order
- Tough to catch
- Uncommon in the extreme
- Like Flying Eagle pennies
- Remarkably fine
- Like many valuable stamps
- Steakhouse spec
- Unusually little done
- Like royal flushes
- Far from ubiquitous
- Extremely scarce
- Like some expensive eBay items
- A long, long way from abundant
- Like mint-condition memorabilia, often
- Like "Amazing Spider-Man" No. 1
- Like getting a $2 bill in change
- Like an 1804 silver dollar
- How some like their steak
- Pink or close to it
- Like a one-in-a-million chance
- Like shark attacks
- Like white peacocks
- Like snow leopards and Siberian tigers
- Not commonplace
- Numismatic classification
- Hardly to be had
- Doneness option for a burger
- Are at the far end, which is not customary
- Like valuable coins
- Desirable to a collector, usually
- U-turn from "in abundance"
- Well's opposite
- Like valuable Pokemon cards
- Happening once in a blue moon
- A long way from being in abundance
- Word with earth or bird
- Half-baked?
- On the endangered list
- Not seen often
- Like a double rainbow
- Hardly well
- Like an 1821 first-edition book
- Like a 1972 Lincoln penny with a doubled die obverse
- Outback option
- Like a red steak
- Like a mint condition "Action Comics No. 1"
- Bloody, as steak
- Red inside, maybe
- Like a Pre-1965 Walking Liberty half dollar
- Like a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card
- Valuable to collectors, say
- Prized, perhaps
- Like a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rookie card
- A real artist, again, is hard to find
- Valuable to collectors
- Super uncommon
- "___ Birds"
- Like a Buffalo nickel
- 2020 Selena Gomez album
- Not in abundance at all
- Not well at all?
- Like heterochromia in eyes
- Like golden tigers
- Not plentiful
- Like a blood moon or a bloody steak
- Chophouse specification
- Like Shiny Pokemon
- Like a winning lottery ticket
- Plentiful? Oh, no
- Super hard to find
- Like a super blue moon
- Like holographic Pokémon cards
- Steak spec
- Deeply un-well?
- Not so common
- Red, like a steak
- Like a dragon egg in Minecraft
- Hardly cooked
- Like very pink steak
- Not in circulation, perhaps
- Like a steak with a very red center
- Not medium or well
- Like a $2 bill
- Thankless errata can be exceptional
- Redder than medium
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 25, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - February 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 14, 2026
- Daily American - February 10, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 09, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 06, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 28, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2026
- Daily American - January 24, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 23, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 20, 2026
- Daily American - January 13, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - January 06, 2026
- LA Times - January 04, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 03, 2026
- LA Times - January 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2025
- Daily American - December 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2025
- New York Times - December 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 17, 2025
- New York Times - December 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 07, 2025
- Daily American - December 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 21, 2025
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