Answer: DEMURE
DEMURE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 20 times.
Referring Clues:
- Shy and modest
 - Reserved
 - Shy
 - Modest
 - Like an ingenue
 - BASHFUL
 - Shyly modest
 - Coyly decorous
 - Quiet and modest
 - Coy
 - Express doubts
 - Affectedly reserved
 - Characterized by modesty
 - Playfully shy
 - Retiring
 - Decorous
 - Modest, as clothing
 - Like a lot of the attire in "The Handmaid's Tale"
 - Modest and shy
 - "Very ___, very mindful"
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - September 23, 2025
 - New York Times - October 26, 2021
 - New York Times - December 31, 2020
 - USA Today - December 17, 2020
 - Netword - December 04, 2019
 - New York Times - June 02, 2018
 - Netword - November 20, 2016
 - LA Times - February 07, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 09, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - June 28, 2015
 - Netword - July 24, 2013
 - Washington Post - May 11, 2013
 - LA Times - February 22, 2013
 - Washington Post - November 17, 2012
 - USA Today - February 17, 2012
 - LA Times - December 11, 2011
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 28, 2011
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 04, 2011
 - Universal - October 15, 2010
 - LA Times - May 09, 2010
 
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