Punctilious one
The crossword clue "Punctilious one" is answered by PRIG, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1955. 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
PRIG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PRIG answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2005; first recorded in 1955. 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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Every other clue in this collection answered by PRIG, most used first.
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