Dress carefully
The crossword clue "Dress carefully" is answered by PREEN, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PREEN
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PREEN answer page.
Used 18 times across 17 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1956. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for PREEN
Every other clue in this collection answered by PREEN, most used first.
- Primp - used 84 times, most recently in 2025
- Hog the mirror - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Get gussied up - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Dress smartly - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Fuss in front of a mirror - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Fuss over oneself - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Dress up - used 15 times, most recently in 2011
- Gussy up - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Doll up - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Fuss at the mirror - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Prink. - used 9 times, most recently in 1989
- Fuss with feathers - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Groom carefully - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Spruce up - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Groom - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Clean one's feathers - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Fuss at a mirror - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Spruce oneself up - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Dress style - ALINE, used 93 times
- Flared dress - ALINE, used 41 times
- Flared dress style - ALINE, used 34 times
- Dress with a flare - ALINE, used 25 times
- Dress up - ADORN, used 23 times
- Dress down - SCOLD, used 22 times
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