Answer: ANAL
ANAL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 74 times.
Referring Clues:
- Psychological work: Abbr.
 - ___-retentive
 - Fussy, in slang
 - Uptight
 - Sex column topic
 - Tightly wound
 - Concerned about every last detail
 - Apt to sweat the small stuff
 - Excessively orderly, informally
 - Stuffy, as it were
 - In the rear
 - Obsessive-compulsive
 - Really OCD, as it were
 - Freudian stage
 - Chem. assay
 - Uptight, informally
 - Type of beads found in a dungeon, say
 - Section in some porn shops
 - Retentive, in a way
 - A Freudian stage
 - Up tight
 - Butt-related
 - Like a control freak
 - Like some condoms
 - Fastidious to a fault
 - ___ -retentive
 - Obsessive, say
 - Overly attentive to details
 - Extremely fussy
 - Like neatniks and clean freaks
 - Excessively focused on something
 - Rigidly uptight
 - Like a neat freak
 - Meticulous to a fault
 - Frustratingly fastidious
 - 39-Across, informally
 - Way too uptight
 - Overly fussy
 - Annoyingly focused
 - Hypermeticulous
 - Fussy to a fault
 - Beyond stuffy
 - Seriously uptight
 - Compulsively neat, say
 - Like neat freaks
 - Obsessive to a fault
 - Super-uptight
 - Obsessive about details
 - Highly persnickety
 - Really uptight
 - Nitpicky
 - Overly neat, say
 - Fussy to excess
 - Like Felix Unger, e.g.
 - Compulsively particular, say
 - Overly fussy, say
 - Organized to a fault
 - Punctilious to the extreme
 - Overly fussy, informally
 - Like neatniks
 - Obsessive about little details
 - Fussy in the extreme
 - Excessively exacting
 - Particularly particular
 - ___ stage (concept in psychosexual development)
 - Painfully particular
 - Like many a fussbudget
 - Overly meticulous
 - Ultrafastidious
 - Beyond uptight
 - Overly fastidious
 - Fussbudgety
 - Tending to get fixated, say
 - Fussy about details
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 20, 2025
 - USA Today - September 18, 2025
 - New York Times - September 15, 2025
 - New York Times - May 03, 2025
 - New York Times - March 04, 2025
 - New York Times - December 06, 2024
 - New York Times - September 30, 2024
 - New York Times - September 16, 2024
 - New York Times - June 19, 2024
 - New York Times - June 03, 2024
 - New York Times - April 01, 2024
 - USA Today - January 30, 2024
 - New York Times - October 31, 2023
 - New York Times - July 13, 2023
 - New York Times - June 27, 2023
 - New York Times - February 11, 2023
 - New York Times - February 02, 2023
 - New York Times - October 25, 2022
 - New York Times - October 19, 2022
 - New York Times - May 04, 2022
 
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