### Clue: Make rare gaffe initially being an outsider (8)
### Answer: UNDERDOG 
 ### Explanation: Definition: an outsider
 UNDERDO(what you might call "to make/cook, meat, say, under-done/less than well-done, ie. rare") + **1st letter of**(… initially) "gaffe".
Defn: …/a competitor with only an outside/little chance of winning.