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Brad and Greg discovered off the beaten track (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rare

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'off the beaten track' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'brad and greg discovered' is the wordplay.
'brad' becomes 'ra' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'discovered' means to look at the middle letters (dis-covered - outer letters removed).
The centre of 'greg' is 're'.
'ra'+'re'='RARE'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for rare that I've seen before include "Exceptionable" , "Singular, infrequent" , "Very lightly cooked, meat say" , "Scarce or uncommon" , "may be bloody" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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