Closer to extinction
The crossword clue "Closer to extinction" is answered by RARER, a 5-letter entry. Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
RARER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the RARER answer page.
Used 13 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for RARER
Every other clue in this collection answered by RARER, most used first.
- Less common - used 151 times, most recently in 2026
- Harder to find - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- More unusual - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
- More uncommon - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Not as common - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Less frequent - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
- Harder to come by - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- More scarce - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Thinner. - used 15 times, most recently in 1982
- Less plentiful - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
- Less cooked - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Not as prevalent - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Less well done - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Not as well-done - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Harder to locate - used 10 times, most recently in 2013
- More infrequent - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Pinker inside - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Less done - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Less prevalent - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Less seen - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Less available - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
- Less likely - used 8 times, most recently in 2012
- Less typical - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Not so well done - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Tougher to find - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Less abundant - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Less usual - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- More atypical - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Not so common - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Pinker in the middle - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Scarcer - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Thinner, as air - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Gets closer to - NEARS, used 79 times
- Comes closer - NEARS, used 28 times
- Gets closer - NEARS, used 27 times
- Gate closer - LATCH, used 15 times
- Draws closer - NEARS, used 11 times
- Door closer - LATCH, used 8 times
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