| 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 |
| Rarely a reformer | 17 |
| Rarely affected by hurricanes, say | 34 |
| Rarely counterfeited bills | 26 |
| Rarely encountered | 18 |
| Rarely entered parts of today's addresses | 45 |
| Rarely granted gift request to Santa | 36 |
| Rarely photographed half of the moon | 36 |
| Rarely rained on | 16 |
| Rarely read e-mail | 18 |
| Rarely read letters | 19 |
| Rarely read messages | 20 |
| Rarely seen animal | 18 |
| Rarely seen bills | 17 |
| Rarely seen film about scaly anteaters? | 39 |
| Rarely seen haircut nowadays | 28 |
| Rarely successful diamond play | 30 |
| Rarely used choice for driving | 30 |
| Rarely used computer key | 24 |
| Rarely used golf club | 21 |
| Rarely used greenback | 21 |
| Rarely used subs | 16 |
| Rarely used substitute | 22 |
| Rarely visited room | 19 |
| Rarely written-out Latin phrase | 31 |
| Rarely, old style | 17 |
| Rarely-met goal | 15 |
| Rarely-used computer key | 24 |
| Rarer than rare | 15 |
| Rarer than rare Staind song? | 28 |
| Rarer than rare, steakwise | 26 |
| Rarer than rare? | 16 |
| Rarest of the main blood types in the U.S. | 42 |