No-nonsense
The crossword clue "No-nonsense" is answered by STAID, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2005. 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
STAID
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STAID answer page.
Used 6 times across 3 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ALLBUSINESS (1 uses in xd)
- EMPHATIC (1 uses in xd)
- GETTOUGH (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for STAID
Every other clue in this collection answered by STAID, most used first.
- Sedate - used 55 times, most recently in 2025
- Prim and proper - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Sober - used 24 times, most recently in 2020
- Strait-laced - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Solemn - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Serious - used 20 times, most recently in 2024
- Decorous - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
- Composed - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Settled - used 13 times, most recently in 2009
- Unadventurous - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Dignified - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Reserved - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Conservative - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Far from flighty - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Grave - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Sedately dignified - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Serious-minded - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Sober-minded - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Straitlaced - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Not flighty - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Stiffly formal - 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.
- Nonsense - TRIPE, used 65 times
- "Nonsense!" - PSHAW, used 55 times
- Nonsense - HOOEY, used 46 times
- Nonsense - HOKUM, used 19 times
- Utter nonsense - TRIPE, used 19 times
- Nonsense - BILGE, used 16 times
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