| Rare gymnastics score | 21 |
| Rare Himalayan sighting | 23 |
| Rare hit | 8 |
| Rare hit for a slow runner | 26 |
| Rare hit for most catchers | 26 |
| Rare imports, maybe | 19 |
| Rare indication? | 16 |
| Rare indicator? | 15 |
| Rare individual | 15 |
| Rare individuals | 16 |
| Rare instrumental grouping | 26 |
| Rare Italian violin | 19 |
| Rare Italian violins | 20 |
| Rare item in auction lots | 25 |
| Rare key in which a section of Chopin's "Polonaise Fantaisie" is written | 86 |
| Rare kind of ball game | 22 |
| Rare large white animal killed by hunters in Nova Scotia last fall, which sparked an outrage due to its sacred status to the Mi'kmaq people | 143 |
| Rare meat color | 15 |
| Rare medical classification | 27 |
| Rare medical service | 20 |
| Rare metallic element | 21 |
| Rare Monopoly rolls | 19 |
| Rare multiple birth | 19 |
| Rare museum display | 19 |
| Rare mushroom? | 14 |
| Rare NFL game ending | 20 |
| Rare NFL game result | 20 |
| Rare night sight | 16 |
| Rare object, sometimes | 22 |
| Rare objet d'art | 20 |
| Rare occasion | 13 |
| Rare occurrence at the U.S. Open on Father's Day that's a common occurrence at the U.S. Open on Labor Day | 113 |
| Rare offering during sweeps week | 32 |
| Rare one | 8 |
| Rare order, perhaps | 19 |
| Rare orders, perhaps | 20 |
| Rare person | 11 |
| Rare plants | 11 |
| Rare play | 9 |
| Rare pleasure | 13 |
| Rare polit. designation | 23 |
| Rare postage stamp with an upside-down airplane | 47 |
| Rare rags-to-riches route | 25 |
| Rare record hunter? | 19 |
| Rare rhino species | 18 |
| Rare rhinoceros or ape | 22 |
| Rare school requirement | 23 |
| Rare score note | 15 |
| Rare score on a golf hole | 25 |
| Rare Scrabble outcome | 21 |
| Rare Seattle pop-rock band? | 27 |
| Rare shoe specification | 23 |
| Rare shoe width | 15 |
| Rare shoebox marking | 20 |
| Rare sight at a singles bar | 27 |
| Rare sight at Daytona Beach | 27 |
| Rare sight on casual Friday | 27 |
| Rare sights in bars nowadays | 28 |
| Rare sights in nurseries | 24 |
| Rare sign? | 10 |
| Rare site during Prohibition | 28 |
| Rare sports result | 18 |
| Rare string | 11 |
| Rare strings | 12 |
| Rare talent | 11 |
| Rare thing, in London | 21 |
| Rare things | 11 |
| Rare time in hell | 17 |
| Rare time you might hit the horn? | 33 |
| Rare transports, nowadays | 25 |
| Rare treat, sometimes | 21 |
| Rare trick taker | 16 |
| Rare trick takers | 17 |
| Rare trick-taker | 16 |
| Rare trick-taking card | 22 |
| Rare tropical plants and such | 29 |
| Rare type of baseball game | 26 |
| Rare utterance from Mom? | 24 |
| Rare violin | 11 |
| Rare way for football games to end | 34 |
| Rare weather forecast | 21 |
| Rare wedding response? | 22 |
| Rare winner | 11 |
| Rare ___ (element of the lanthanide series) | 43 |
| Rare ___ just wanted to "Celebrate" | 45 |
| Rare-book binding | 17 |
| Rare-coin rating | 16 |
| Rare-earth element | 18 |
| Rare-earth metals | 17 |
| Rare-earth oxide | 16 |
| Rarebit base | 12 |
| Rarebit description | 19 |
| Rarebit ingredient | 18 |
| Rarebit or terrier | 18 |
| Raree | 5 |
| Rarefied | 8 |
| Rarefied air | 12 |
| Rarefied condition | 18 |
| Rarefies | 8 |
| Rarely | 6 |