Answer: SOBER
SOBER is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 105 times.
Referring Clues:
- Clearheaded
 - Judicious
 - Temperate
 - Like a designated driver
 - Dried out
 - Sedate
 - Unlit?
 - Off the sauce
 - Dry
 - Able to walk the line
 - Like a designated driver, presumably
 - On the wagon
 - Not lit
 - ___ as a judge
 - Unloaded?
 - Good thing to be behind the wheel
 - Like a judge?
 - Like a judge, presumably
 - Not intoxicated
 - "On the wagon"
 - Like a judge, in a saying
 - Not even tipsy
 - Solemn
 - Serious
 - Not loaded
 - Not lit?
 - Judgelike?
 - Not wasted at all
 - No longer smashed
 - Not plastered
 - No longer loaded?
 - Sensible
 - Not flashy
 - AA-approved
 - Clean partner
 - Like a judge, proverbially
 - Like the designated driver
 - "Clean and ___" (1988)
 - Not pickled
 - Judgelike
 - Clear-thinking
 - Like a teetotaler
 - Cool-headed
 - Unlooped?
 - Humorless
 - Not loaded?
 - Clear-headed
 - Neither stewed nor pickled?
 - Matter-of-fact
 - Able to walk a straight line
 - Uninfluenced?
 - Quite serious
 - Grave
 - Very serious
 - Hardly frivolous
 - Rational
 - Not drunk
 - Uninebriated
 - Hardly hammered
 - Subdued
 - Not inebriated
 - Drab as colors
 - Drab, as colors
 - Far from loaded
 - Serious or solemn
 - Reserved and rational
 - Not at all tipsy
 - Far from drunk
 - Having a BAC of zero
 - Ultra-serious
 - Ultra serious
 - Off the bottle
 - Not given to frivolity
 - Not ripped
 - No longer lit?
 - Earnestly thoughtful
 - Unintoxicated
 - Unemotional
 - Not even a little drunk
 - Not yet bombed
 - Not high
 - Able to walk the line?
 - Sombre in manner
 - Not wasted
 - Lacking sauce?
 - Like the designated driver, by design
 - Moderate and well balanced
 - Having a 0 percent BAC
 - Prudent
 - Fit to drive
 - No longer drinking
 - What a designated driver should be
 - Clear-eyed
 - Self-controlled
 - Abstemious
 - Not at all wasted?
 - Not at all high
 - Serious-minded
 - Not at all wasted
 - Far from wasted
 - What designated drivers should be
 - Staid
 - Like a designated driver, optimally
 - Composed
 - California ___ (abstaining from everything but cannabis, say)
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - June 25, 2025
 - LA Times - March 17, 2025
 - New York Times - August 09, 2024
 - LA Times - June 17, 2024
 - LA Times - June 08, 2024
 - USA Today - April 30, 2024
 - LA Times - March 24, 2024
 - New York Times - March 22, 2024
 - USA Today - March 04, 2024
 - USA Today - May 05, 2023
 - New York Times - March 05, 2023
 - USA Today - February 23, 2023
 - New York Times - January 24, 2023
 - New York Times - January 16, 2023
 - New York Times - September 26, 2022
 - USA Today - September 05, 2022
 - LA Times - August 03, 2022
 - New York Times - December 31, 2021
 - LA Times - December 06, 2021
 - USA Today - August 25, 2021
 
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