They're sometimes picked for their rarity Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

RARITY (noun)
1. a rarified quality
2. noteworthy scarcity

Hint 2: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
EROS

More NYT Crossword (10/2/2026) Answers

Across

1. Important figure on staff?

5. Photographer's inits.

8. For real?

13. Funky-smelling

14. Sugar substitute?

16. Within

17. Core-focused workout in a humid room

18. Unit of sound intensity

19. Like Mitt Romney and Ken Jennings

20. Lead-in to "coin" for a major cryptocurrency

21. "Whew!"

23. Whose fault your mistake might be

25. Hybrid cat

26. Member of a noble family

28. Request after eating a habanero, perhaps

29. What comes from needing little, per Epictetus

31. Small dosage amts.

34. Question posed at the end of a successful job interview

37. Waze ways: Abbr.

38. Spends a long time in front of the mirror, maybe

39. Inkling

40. Word with cane or corn

41. Villainous expression

42. Home to the Basilica of St. Clare

45. Highly controlling?

48. Like a golf course, regularly

49. Snap crackle and pop

51. ___ Cup, tournament established in the 2020s

52. "Never been better!"

54. Site of a 1956 international conflict

55. Animal chased by Toto in "The Wizard of Oz"

56. Key in a chain

57. Figure with three faces, in Dante

58. Brief bit

59. They're stretched out before some workouts

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Down

1. Hard-shelled delicacies

2. Public eye

3. Written posts?

4. Stoked

5. Like some enemies

6. "I need to get a word in!"

7. Possible result of a default

8. Before

9. Not stop at the end of a chapter, say

10. Suffragist Harriet Taylor ___

11. One doing the lord's work?

12. Words of affirmation?

14. Skedaddle

15. Condition that can be caused by excess earwax

19. Debussy’s “La ___”

22. Jay ___, singer of the 2009 #1 hit "Down"

24. Sounds from fans

27. Clip follower

29. Some weather service messages

30. 'Wheat Capital' of Oklahoma

31. Label on some domestic products

32. Eco-friendly area around a city

33. Stares into space

35. Ones doing balancing acts?

36. Windows feature?

40. Pictures

41. Message that might be signaled with smoke

42. Off

43. European capital with layers of Thracian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman history

44. Beads for an athlete

46. Director Lee ___ Chung

47. Neighbor of an Estonian, historically

53. Wiseman who directed "Ballerina" and "Live Free or Die Hard"

54. ___City

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