Stiffly neat
The crossword clue "Stiffly neat" is answered by PRIM, a 4-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
PRIM
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PRIM answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1951. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for PRIM
Every other clue in this collection answered by PRIM, most used first.
- Strait-laced - used 54 times, most recently in 2026
- Overly proper - used 46 times, most recently in 2026
- ___ and proper - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
- Proper partner - used 43 times, most recently in 2025
- Prudish - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Stiffly formal - used 28 times, most recently in 2024
- Schoolmarmish - used 23 times, most recently in 2023
- Proper's partner - used 21 times, most recently in 2022
- Overly formal - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Stiffly proper - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Straitlaced - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Demure. - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Decorous - used 15 times, most recently in 2003
- Proper - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
- Puritanical - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Straight-laced - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Stuffy - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Victorian - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Prissy - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Proper companion? - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Ever so proper - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Highly proper - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Rigidly formal - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Very proper - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
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.
- Neat as ___ - APIN, used 124 times
- Neat - TIDY, used 86 times
- As neat as __ - APIN, used 23 times
- Neat - TRIM, used 16 times
- Neat as a pin - TIDY, used 16 times
- Neat and orderly - TIDY, used 15 times
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