| Rare element in platinum ores | 29 |
| Rare event in horseracing | 25 |
| Rare first-date activity | 24 |
| Rare football game ending | 25 |
| Rare Himalayan sighting | 23 |
| Rare hit for a slow runner | 26 |
| Rare hit for most catchers | 26 |
| Rare instrumental grouping | 26 |
| Rare item in auction lots | 25 |
| Rare kind of ball game | 22 |
| Rare medical classification | 27 |
| Rare object, sometimes | 22 |
| Rare polit. designation | 23 |
| Rare rags-to-riches route | 25 |
| Rare rhinoceros or ape | 22 |
| Rare school requirement | 23 |
| Rare score on a golf hole | 25 |
| Rare Seattle pop-rock band? | 27 |
| Rare shoe specification | 23 |
| 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 site during Prohibition | 28 |
| Rare transports, nowadays | 25 |
| Rare trick-taking card | 22 |
| Rare tropical plants and such | 29 |
| Rare type of baseball game | 26 |
| Rare utterance from Mom? | 24 |
| Rare wedding response? | 22 |
| Rarely counterfeited bills | 26 |
| Rarely seen haircut nowadays | 28 |
| Rarely used computer key | 24 |
| Rarely used substitute | 22 |
| Rarely-used computer key | 24 |
| Rarer than rare Staind song? | 28 |
| Rarer than rare, steakwise | 26 |
| Rarest type of bank deposit? | 28 |
| Rarities for NFL tackles | 24 |
| Rarity for a century plant | 26 |
| Rarity for a mop-up man | 23 |
| Rarity for an A.L. pitcher | 26 |
| Rarity, to J. R. Lowell | 23 |
| Rascal (country group) -- | 25 |
| Rascal, from Italian farce | 26 |
| Rash maître d'? | 22 |
| Rash treatment, perhaps | 23 |
| Rash-people's pursuits | 26 |
| Raskolnikov's love | 22 |
| Rasp or straw attachment | 24 |
| Raspberries at the ballpark | 27 |
| Raspberries' Carmen | 23 |
| Raspberries' cousins | 24 |
| Raspberry and cherry, e.g. | 26 |
| Raspberry and strawberry | 24 |
| Raspberry drupelets, e.g. | 25 |
| Raspberry's cousin | 22 |
| Raspberry's relative | 24 |
| Rasputin's advisee | 22 |
| Rasputin's employer, e.g. | 29 |
| Rasputin's refusal | 22 |
| Rasputin's refusals | 23 |
| Rasputin's tea maker | 24 |
| Rasta's messiah Haile | 25 |
| Rastafari name for God | 22 |
| Rastafarian door opener? | 24 |
| Rastafarian identifier | 22 |
| Rastafarian's tresses | 25 |
| Rastafarianism messiah Haile | 28 |
| Rastafarianism, e.g.: Abbr. | 27 |
| Rat in a watering hole? | 23 |
| Rat Islands' native | 23 |
| Rat Pack cohort of Frank | 24 |
| Rat Pack crooner Martin | 23 |
| Rat Pack crooner ___ Martin | 27 |
| Rat preceder or follower | 24 |
| Rat race remedy, briefly | 24 |
| Rat race result, often | 22 |
| Rat smeller's words | 23 |
| Rat's fare in rhyme | 23 |
| Rat's learning place | 24 |
| Rat's milieu, maybe | 23 |
| Rat's milieu, perhaps | 25 |
| Rat-a-___ (drum sound) | 22 |
| Rat-filled town of legend | 25 |
| Rat-themed movie or song | 24 |
| Rat-__ (knocking sound) | 23 |
| Rat-___ (Tommy gun sound) | 25 |
| Ratatouille and hasenpfeffer | 28 |
| Ratatouille ingredient | 22 |
| Ratatouille requirement | 23 |
| Ratatouille, for example | 24 |
| Ratchet wheel catchers | 22 |
| Ratchet-wheel regulator | 23 |
| Rate for cheap tricks? | 22 |
| Rate in the financial pages | 27 |
| Rate of interest: Abbr. | 23 |
| Rate of return on investments | 29 |
| Rate of rotation, abbr. | 23 |