Clues for the word "PRIM"
We've had 101 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 350 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on February 19, 2026.
Definition of prim
- n. - The privet.
- a. - Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
- v. t. - To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
- v. i. - To dress or act smartly.
Referring Clues
- Proper's partner
- Stiffly neat
- Victorian
- Schoolmarmish
- Buttoned-up all the way
- Strait-laced
- Prissy
- Governessy
- Inhibited
- First part
- Overly stiff
- Not fond of dirty jokes, surely
- Perhaps a little too neat
- Wearing a long dress and a collar buttoned to the top, maybe
- ___ and proper
- Proper companion?
- Formal
- Puritanical
- Decorous
- Proper mate
- Ever so proper
- Stiffly formal
- Prudish
- Proper partner
- Square-toed
- Rigidly formal
- Stuffy
- Overly decorous
- With 10-Down and "and," rigidly formal
- Excessively polite and restrained
- Rigid
- ___ and proper
- Formally proper
- Overly formal
- Straitlaced
- Partner of proper
- Proper
- Like schoolmarms, stereotypically
- Dainty
- Highly proper
- A proper partner?
- Straight-laced
- Like a bluenose
- Proper partner?
- Like Miss Manners
- Overly proper
- Far from freewheeling
- Not at all loose
- Overly demure
- Stiffly proper
- Starchy
- Wanting everything just so
- Wanting evrything just so
- Extremely proper
- Stiff
- 7 or 11, e.g.
- "Proper" companion?
- Demure
- Affectedly dainty
- Excessively proper
- High in starch?
- Very proper
- ___ and proper (strait-laced)
- ___ and proper (overly formal)
- Old-maidish
- Adhering to old-fashioned modesty
- Orderly
- Too proper
- Punctilious, detailed 11, 13 or 17?
- Formally prudish
- Quiet, on edge and rather demure
- Fifth off 2 or 3 perhaps, to be formal
- Proper (type of rose?)
- A proper rose?
- Very formal
- Strait-laced - prudish
- 28 19, the proper one?
- Affectedly formal
- Stiffly formal, but with a soft edge
- Formal choice seen shortly
- Prudish Mr Blair takes religious instruction to heart
- Prudish, formal
- Prudish, proper
- Parking by the verge is proper
- Goody-goody
- Reserved
- Like a goody two-shoes
- Unlikely to belch in public, say
- Proper, priggish
- Kat's sister in "The Hunger Games"
- Like a pearl-clutcher
- Hardly libertine
- Staid
- Proper partner?
- Niminy-piminy
- Buttoned-up
- Too formal
- Precise
- Like an etiquette coach, perhaps
- Starched
- Stiffly demure
Last Seen In
- Daily American - February 19, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 13, 2026
- Daily American - December 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 30, 2025
- LA Times - August 20, 2025
- Daily American - August 11, 2025
- New York Times - July 29, 2025
- New York Times - June 21, 2025
- Daily American - June 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 12, 2025
- LA Times - April 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 04, 2025
- LA Times - February 09, 2025
- USA Today - December 28, 2024
- Daily American - November 18, 2024
- USA Today - October 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 05, 2024
- USA Today - July 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 03, 2024
- Mirror Mini - April 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 05, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 26, 2024
- Daily American - February 19, 2024
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