Clues for the word "PRIME"
We've had 126 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 181 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on March 12, 2026.
Definition of prime
- # - Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
- a. - First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.
- a. - First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.
- a. - First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.
- a. - Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- a. - Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
- a. - Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.
- n. - The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.
- n. - The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.
- n. - That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.
- a. - The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.
- a. - The first of the chief guards.
- a. - Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
- a. - A prime number. See under Prime, a.
- a. - An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.
- a. - To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.
- a. - To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.
- a. - To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.
- a. - To trim or prune, as trees.
- a. - To mark with a prime mark.
- v. i. - To be renewed, or as at first.
- v. i. - To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- v. i. - To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.
Referring Clues
- Best rate
- Second to none
- Two, for one
- Choice
- Ready
- In the ___ of life
- Prepare the engine
- Apply a basecoat to
- Top quality, as beef
- Word before cut or time
- Most important
- Highest grade?
- Like 2 or 7, but not 27
- Like top-quality beef
- 2 or 3, but not 4
- Much-watched interest rate
- First-rate
- ___ minister
- Time of your life
- Rate in the financial pages
- Rate in the news
- Highest-quality
- Principal
- Word before number or rate
- Prepare for painting
- Kind of minister or suspect
- Grade of beef
- Of superior grade
- Of the highest grade
- Beef designation
- Kind of rate or suspect
- Word with time or suspect
- Type of time or minister
- Best-quality
- Steak designation
- Steak rating, and word that can precede the first words of the answers to starred clues
- High-quality
- ___ minister
- 7 or 11
- Interest rate benchmark
- ______ time
- Of the highest quality
- Beef rating
- Top-rated
- Meat rating
- Like 3, 5, and 7
- Meryl Streep movie
- First-quality
- First-rate
- Most fundamental
- Get ready
- Heyday
- Kind of minister or mover
- First in quality
- Peak years
- Springtime of life
- Type of rib
- Like standing rib roast
- Cut of beef
- Fed concern
- High beef rating
- With 70-Across, prized programming slot ... or a hint to the first two parts of the answers to starred clues
- First in degree
- Kind of number
- Amazon offering
- ___ minister (British leader)
- Optimum
- Peak
- Preceder of rate and time
- High-quality, as beef
- Type of minister
- Numbers like 3,7,11 or 13
- Numbers like 3, 7, 11 or 13
- USDA term
- Select a number with no factors
- Fundamental
- Adjective for 2017 (but not 2018)
- Top quality
- What you're in at height of your career
- Best - get ready
- Prepare to fire two or three, for instance
- Like 3, 13 and 17, in first of poems by Frost
- Prepare a formal note
- First empire almost to be destroyed
- Fundamental - of highest quality
- To be demure, sweetheart, is most important
- In brief, first-class
- So are these!
- Amazon offering, and a hint to a replacement in the starred clues
- Metropolitan dropped at the office
- Like 2017
- Chief's brief
- Prepare for cardinal
- ___ the pump
- Like 8675309, say
- Excellent number with no factors
- Chief
- Like 2017 but not 2018
- Essential
- First-class
- First among ministers
- Frost on the third of September? That's first-rate!
- Like 11 and 17
- Best
- Superior beef grade
- Superior beef rating
- Best of all
- Resident at Ottawa's 24 Sussex Drive
- Foremost
- Like the number 19
- Chief, most important
- Highest grade of steak
- Like 3 and 5, but not 35
- Like three and seven
- Like 3, 5, and 7, but not 1
- Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
- Like 2 and 5 but not 25
- Sort of numbers to learn first?
- Like the number 17
- Like the numbers 11, 13 and 17
- Grade A
- Like the number of this clue
- Word with number or time
- Amazon option
- Do such numbers relate to quality?
- Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - March 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 12, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - December 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 23, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 16, 2025
- New York Times - June 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2025
- New York Times - March 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 03, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - November 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 14, 2024
- USA Today - October 25, 2024
- LA Times - October 24, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 29, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - August 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - April 10, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - March 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 26, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - November 22, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 14, 2023
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