Clues for the word "STRICT"
We've had 70 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 139 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on December 19, 2025.
Definition of strict
- a. - Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
- a. - Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
- a. - Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
- a. - Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
- a. - Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
- a. - Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Referring Clues
- Severe
- Narrow
- Absolute
- Unbending
- Precise
- Rigorous
- Inflexible about rules
- Like tough love
- Unyielding
- Rigid
- Inflexible about the rules
- Hard-and-fast
- Exacting
- Uncompromising
- Like disciplinarians
- Inflexible
- No-nonsense
- Stern about the rules
- By-the-book
- Meticulous
- Like a stern teacher
- Unforgiving
- Unrelenting
- Not lenient
- Harsh, severe
- Harsh
- Not lax at all
- Following rules exactly
- Stern
- Rigorous, as with rules
- Like a tough teacher
- Far from lenient
- Hard to bend
- Like a taskmaster
- Unwilling to bend
- Driven by rules
- Unwilling to negotiate
- To the letter
- Stern about rules
- Authoritarian
- Uncompromising way religious teaching gets to court
- Hard to control soldier leaving
- Austere
- Austere - rigid
- Scrupulously within the rules, but not totally restrictive
- Precise police officer leaving area
- Not allowing laxity
- Authoritarian detective's leaving the area
- Demanding
- Rigorous way to limit endless fiddle
- Rigorous in diagnosis of gastric trauma
- Severe internal gastric trouble
- Firm finds gimmick almost getting in the way
- Line I had otherwise abandoned, being intolerant of laxity
- When detective inspector leaves area, it becomes tough
- Authoritarian ploy mostly accepted by revered person
- Firm and unyielding
- Exact description of a martinet
- Severe, stern
- Before court cut short stir-crazy tough
- Severe Conservative dismissed by press
- Rigorous in maintaining discipline
- Tough
- Regularly use Tory in City firm
- Like a disciplinarian
- Such discipline necessitates some restrictions
- Not at all lenient
- Like parents who have many rules
- Rigid about rules
- Not allowing for variation
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - December 19, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 11, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 04, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 26, 2025
- Daily American - June 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 28, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 24, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 01, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2024
- USA Today - July 17, 2024
- Daily Quick - May 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 30, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 12, 2024
- Daily American - February 21, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 11, 2023
- New York Times - December 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 21, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 07, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 18, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - August 14, 2023
- LA Times - August 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 26, 2023
- Daily American - June 03, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - March 27, 2023
- USA Today - February 01, 2023
- Your Life Choices - January 26, 2023
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