Answer: PRIOR
PRIOR is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 72 times.
Referring Clues:
- Former
 - Rap sheet listing
 - Police record entry
 - Before, with "to"
 - Earlier
 - Abbey biggie
 - Blotch on one's record
 - Rap sheet entry
 - Preceding in time
 - Rap sheet info
 - Rap sheet item
 - Previous arrest
 - Record listing
 - Rap sheet datum
 - Record blemish
 - Earlier conviction
 - Earlier offense
 - Monastic head
 - Happening earlier
 - At an earlier time
 - Monastic officer
 - Part of a criminal record
 - Part of a perp's record
 - Previous
 - Monastery man
 - Abbot's underling
 - Before (with "to")
 - Conviction, maybe
 - Abbot's junior
 - Abovementioned
 - Monastery title
 - Preceding in order
 - Beforehand
 - Rap-sheet entry
 - Monastic leader
 - Monastic leaader
 - Anterior
 - Monastery officer
 - Police record listing
 - Rank below abbot
 - Earlier in time (with "to")
 - Earlier in time (with"to")
 - Preceding
 - Something that's on the record?
 - ___ to (before)
 - Poet Matthew buried in Westminster Abbey
 - Aforementioned
 - Old conviction
 - Previous arrest, on a rap sheet
 - Antecedent
 - Earlier in time
 - Rap-sheet blemish
 - English poet Matthew
 - Type of knowledge
 - Abbot's right-hand man
 - Abbot's aide
 - Earlier on
 - Before now
 - Rap sheet detail
 - Monastery figure below abbot
 - Previous conviction
 - ___ commitment
 - Record component
 - Abbot next-in-commands
 - Abbot's subordinate
 - Opposite of subsequent
 - Something that might lengthen a sentence?
 - Abbott's underling
 - "I have a ___ commitment"
 - Like some obligations
 - In the past
 - Like some knowledge and commitments
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 28, 2025
 - LA Times - August 21, 2025
 - LA Times - June 01, 2025
 - LA Times - December 08, 2024
 - LA Times - July 25, 2024
 - USA Today - May 31, 2024
 - LA Times - March 09, 2024
 - USA Today - November 24, 2023
 - LA Times - November 23, 2023
 - New York Times - June 23, 2023
 - LA Times - March 19, 2023
 - LA Times - January 02, 2023
 - USA Today - October 24, 2022
 - LA Times - May 01, 2022
 - New York Times - October 08, 2021
 - New York Times - August 29, 2021
 - USA Today - July 13, 2021
 - USA Today - July 06, 2021
 - New York Times - June 13, 2021
 - Universal - April 20, 2021
 
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