Clues for the word "PRIMER"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Cryptic crossword on August 02, 2026.
Definition of primer
- n. - One who, or that which, primes
- n. - an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
- a. - First; original; primary.
- n. - Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
- n. - A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
- n. - A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
Referring Clues
- First-grade book
- Introductory reading
- First coat
- Undercoat
- Furniture cover
- Base coat
- It may be under enamel
- Grade-school text
- Introductory book
- First coat of paint, sometimes
- Easy reader
- Novice's text
- Body shop application
- McGuffey Reader, for one
- Beginner's book
- Grade school book
- Book with Dick and Jane, say
- First layer of furniture protection
- Simple text
- Easy read
- Introductory text
- ABC book
- First coat for a painter
- Early reader
- Paint in schoolbook?
- Paint a textbook
- Paint applied as a base
- Initial coat of paint
- Introduction to a stiffly formal ruler?
- Book someone who's got loaded
- A better book?
- Textbook
- Elementary text book
- First book or coat
- First coat – book
- Introductory textbook
- Paint book?
- Equip with information and right school book
- Brief introduction to revised textbook
- Hesitation after proper introduction
- Straitlaced queen depicted in schoolbook?
- It can give a student a start
- Is this book proper at mid-term?
- Exercise book
- Paint in schoolbook?
- A scholarly introduction
- Schoolbook
- Coat that goes on before paint
- Pre-foundation layer
- The student has an excellent right to read it
- School book
- A better book?
- Valuable property
- Part of a makeup routine
Last Seen In
- Daily Cryptic - August 02, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 10, 2025
- New York Times - January 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 01, 2024
- New York Times - April 11, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 08, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2023
- New York Times - August 01, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 01, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 08, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - November 04, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2022
- USA Today - August 19, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - August 01, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 14, 2022
- LA Times - December 31, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - December 08, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - December 08, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - September 28, 2017
- Mirror Quick - September 18, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 21, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - April 06, 2017
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