Answer: PRIM
PRIM is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 77 times.
Referring Clues:
- Proper's partner
- Stiffly neat
- Victorian
- Schoolmarmish
- Buttoned-up all the way
- Strait-laced
- Prissy
- Governessy
- Inhibited
- First part
- Overly stiff
- Not fond of dirty jokes, surely
- Perhaps a little too neat
- Wearing a long dress and a collar buttoned to the top, maybe
- ___ and proper
- Proper companion?
- Formal
- Puritanical
- Decorous
- Proper mate
- Ever so proper
- Stiffly formal
- Prudish
- Proper partner
- Square-toed
- Rigidly formal
- Stuffy
- Overly decorous
- With 10-Down and "and," rigidly formal
- Excessively polite and restrained
- Rigid
- __ and proper
- Formally proper
- Overly formal
- Straitlaced
- Partner of proper
- Proper
- Like schoolmarms, stereotypically
- Dainty
- Highly proper
- A proper partner?
- Straight-laced
- Like a bluenose
- Proper partner?
- Like Miss Manners
- Overly proper
- Far from freewheeling
- Not at all loose
- Overly demure
- Stiffly proper
- Starchy
- Wanting everything just so
- Wanting evrything just so
- Extremely proper
- Stiff
- 7 or 11, e.g.
- "Proper" companion?
- Demure
- Affectedly dainty
- Excessively proper
- High in starch?
- Very proper
- ___ and proper (strait-laced)
- ___ and proper (overly formal)
- Old-maidish
- Adhering to old-fashioned modesty
- Goody-goody
- Like a goody two-shoes
- Kat's sister in "The Hunger Games"
- Like a pearl-clutcher
- Hardly libertine
- Niminy-piminy
- Buttoned-up
- Too formal
- Like an etiquette coach, perhaps
- Starched
- Stiffly demure
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - August 20, 2025
- New York Times - July 29, 2025
- New York Times - June 21, 2025
- LA Times - April 21, 2025
- LA Times - February 09, 2025
- USA Today - October 09, 2024
- USA Today - July 17, 2024
- New York Times - January 09, 2024
- New York Times - November 28, 2023
- USA Today - November 09, 2023
- New York Times - July 25, 2023
- LA Times - July 09, 2023
- LA Times - December 27, 2022
- LA Times - December 11, 2022
- New York Times - November 25, 2022
- LA Times - November 17, 2022
- USA Today - October 27, 2022
- USA Today - October 17, 2022
- USA Today - September 01, 2022
- LA Times - August 22, 2022
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