| ___ and proper (very formal and prudish) |
|
|
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
21 Mar 2026 |
| Demure |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Feb 2026 |
| Overly formal |
Newsday |
24 Feb 2026 |
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Proper |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Strait-laced |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Jan 2026 |
| *Straight-laced or stiffly neat |
|
|
| Strait-laced, prissy |
The Times Concise |
15 Dec 2025 |
| Overly proper |
USA Today |
13 Dec 2025 |
| Overly formal |
USA Today |
29 Nov 2025 |
| ___ and proper (very formal and prudish) |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Oct 2025 |
| Two or three? Not quite precise |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Sep 2025 |
| Straitlaced |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Aug 2025 |
| Proper partner |
LA Times Daily |
20 Aug 2025 |
| ___ and proper |
Universal |
15 Aug 2025 |
| Stiffly proper |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
09 Aug 2025 |
| *Straight-laced or stiffly neat |
|
|
| Stiffly demure |
New York Times |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Oh-so-proper |
Premier Sunday |
13 Jul 2025 |
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Starched |
New York Times |
21 Jun 2025 |
| Overly proper |
Newsday |
02 Jun 2025 |
| Proper partner? |
Family Time |
01 Jun 2025 |
| Demure ancient king leaving area (4) |
|
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| Poshly refined in manner |
|
|
| ___ and proper (appropriately behaved) |
|
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| Overly proper |
Family Time |
12 May 2025 |
| Proper soft edge (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
07 May 2025 |
| Quiet lip is somewhat pmdish (4) |
|
|
| - and proper |
|
|
| Particular about behaving decorously |
|
|
| Like an etiquette coach, perhaps |
LA Times Daily |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Fastidiously proper |
New York Times Mini |
04 Apr 2025 |
| Starchy edge soft at first (4) |
|
|
| Overly proper |
Newsday |
10 Mar 2025 |
| Proper partner |
LA Times Daily |
09 Feb 2025 |
| Proper |
|
|
| Overly proper |
Universal |
16 Jan 2025 |
| Stiffly formal first person's behind pair |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
14 Jan 2025 |
| Stiffly proper |
USA Today |
28 Dec 2024 |
| ___ and proper (very formal) |
|
|
| Prudish Penny on edge (4) |
|
|
| Stiffly formal, strait-laced |
The Sun Mini |
14 Dec 2024 |
| Affectedly precise |
|
|
| Proper partner? |
Universal |
23 Nov 2024 |
| Formal in behaviour |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
14 Nov 2024 |
| It's proper for a coin to have a milling to it (4) |
|
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| Very demure, very mindful |
|
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| Stiff and proper (4) |
|
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| Stiffly formal pair I am following (4) |
|
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| Proper partner? |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Oct 2024 |
| Prudishly disapproving (4) |
|
|
| Too formal |
USA Today |
09 Oct 2024 |
| Stiffly proper |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Overly starchy |
Newsday |
04 Oct 2024 |
| Demure and quiet, on edge (4) |
|
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| Demure; proper (4) |
|
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| ____ and proper |
|
|
| Demure, ... and proper |
|
|
| *Straight-laced or stiffly neat |
|
|
| Most important to remove end when stuffy (4) |
|
|
| Stiffly proper |
USA Today |
17 Jul 2024 |
| Formally prudish (4) |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
24 Jun 2024 |
| Proper way to behave, to be exact (4) |
|
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| Over-demure (4) |
|
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| High in starch |
Newsday |
25 May 2024 |
| Prissy, proper (4) |
|
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| Formal and then some |
|
|
| Almost the first to be staid (4) |
|
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| Prudish Penny goes to the edge (4) |
|
|
| First, not the last - to be precise |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
Commuter |
22 Mar 2024 |
| Affectedly proper |
The Times Concise |
06 Mar 2024 |
| Prudish |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Mar 2024 |
| Originally particularly right in manners (4) |
|
|
| It's for Public Relations I'm |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
Newsday |
09 Feb 2024 |
| Too formal |
Universal |
09 Feb 2024 |
| Soft edge is proper fashion (4) |
|
|
| Quiet lip is somewhat prudish (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
04 Feb 2024 |
| Excessively demure (4) |
|
|
| ___ and proper (well-behaved) |
|
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| Strait-laced chief finished early (4) |
|
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| Rather formal chief fails to finish |
The Guardian Cryptic |
12 Jan 2024 |
| Rather formal chief fails to finish (4) |
|
|
| Leaders of powerful religions identify mostly as prudish |
|
|
| Overly proper |
New York Times |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Ever so proper |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2023 |
| Affectedly proper |
The Guardian Speedy |
24 Dec 2023 |
| Staid and moral |
|
|
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Dec 2023 |
| Overly proper |
New York Times |
28 Nov 2023 |
| Overly proper |
TV |
26 Nov 2023 |
| Overly formal |
USA Today |
09 Nov 2023 |
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
Newsday |
12 Oct 2023 |
| ___ and proper (well-behaved) |
|
|
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Aug 2023 |
| Strait-laced |
New York Times |
21 Aug 2023 |
| Schoolmarmish |
New York Times |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Stiffly respectable |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Jul 2023 |
| Straight-laced |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jul 2023 |
| Stiffly formal |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Jun 2023 |
| ___ and proper |
USA Today |
18 Jun 2023 |
| Starchy |
Newsday |
29 Apr 2023 |
| Overly formal |
Newsday |
25 Apr 2023 |
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Feb 2023 |
| Too formal |
Newsday |
24 Feb 2023 |
| Overly proper |
Newsday |
15 Feb 2023 |
| Straight-laced |
Universal |
18 Jan 2023 |
| __ and proper |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2022 |
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| Buttoned-up |
LA Times Daily |
11 Dec 2022 |
| Puritanical |
New York Times |
25 Nov 2022 |
| __ and proper |
LA Times Daily |
17 Nov 2022 |
| Overly formal |
USA Today |
27 Oct 2022 |
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2022 |
| Proper's partner |
Universal |
04 Sep 2022 |
| ___ and proper |
USA Today |
01 Sep 2022 |
| Stiffly proper |
LA Times Daily |
22 Aug 2022 |
| Proper politician put up to defend religious instruction |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Aug 2022 |
| Stiffly formal |
Premier Sunday |
14 Aug 2022 |
| Niminy-piminy |
New York Times |
15 Jul 2022 |
| __ and proper |
LA Times Daily |
04 Jul 2022 |
| Overly proper |
Universal |
03 Jul 2022 |
| Strait-laced |
LA Times Daily |
29 Jun 2022 |
| Proper partner? |
New York Times |
26 Jun 2022 |
| Straight-laced |
The Guardian Quick |
16 May 2022 |
| "___ and proper" (very formal) |
|
|
| Overly proper |
Newsday |
10 Apr 2022 |
| Proper's partner |
USA Today |
02 Apr 2022 |
| Hardly libertine |
|
|
| Hardly libertine |
LA Times Daily |
25 Mar 2022 |
| Straight-laced |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Mar 2022 |
| Strait-laced |
New York Times |
08 Mar 2022 |
| Proper partner? |
Universal |
07 Mar 2022 |
| ___ and proper (very correctly behaved) |
|
|
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Feb 2022 |
| Demure being almost nineteen, maybe |
The Times Cryptic |
14 Dec 2021 |
| Very proper |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
LA Times Daily |
24 Nov 2021 |
| Victorian is nearly ready |
|
|
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Sep 2021 |
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Stuffy |
Newsday |
03 Jul 2021 |
| Prudish |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Jul 2021 |
| Prissy |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 Jun 2021 |
| Victorian |
New York Times |
16 Jun 2021 |
| Stiffly proper |
Newsday |
28 Apr 2021 |
| Overly formal |
Newsday |
20 Apr 2021 |
| Prissy |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
USA Today |
22 Feb 2021 |
| ___ and proper (very formal) |
|
|
| Overly proper |
Universal |
14 Jan 2021 |
| Stiffly formal |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2021 |
| Stiffly proper |
|
|
| Stiffly proper |
LA Times Daily |
27 Dec 2020 |
| Proper's partner |
USA Today |
08 Dec 2020 |
| Like a pearl-clutcher |
New York Times |
15 Nov 2020 |
| Overly formal |
|
|
| Strait-laced Puritan leader outside |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Stiffly proper |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Aug 2020 |
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jul 2020 |
| Particularly proper |
|
|
| Stiffly correct |
The Times Concise |
15 May 2020 |
| Kat's sister in 'The Hunger Games' |
|
|
| Kat's sister in "The Hunger Games" |
LA Times Daily |
26 Apr 2020 |
| Like schoolmarms, stereotypically |
Family Time |
15 Mar 2020 |
| Partner of proper |
|
|
| Partner of proper |
New York Times |
25 Dec 2019 |
| Fastidious setter's following promising leads |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Nov 2019 |
| Proper partner? |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Oct 2019 |
| Stiffly correct |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Oct 2019 |
| Unlikely to belch in public, say |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Oct 2019 |
| Highly proper |
Newsday |
18 Sep 2019 |
| ___ and proper (very formal) |
|
|
| Proper partner |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jul 2019 |
| Proper partner |
|
|
| ___ and proper (very formal) |
|
|
| Prudish |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Jul 2019 |
| Old-maidish |
USA Today |
04 Jul 2019 |
| . Hypatia is following tips from paper, to be precise |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
Universal |
07 Jun 2019 |
| Overly proper |
Wall Street Journal |
28 May 2019 |
| Formally proper |
Newsday |
20 May 2019 |
| Overly proper |
Newsday |
09 May 2019 |
| Straitlaced |
Universal |
15 Apr 2019 |
| Overly proper |
New York Times |
18 Mar 2019 |
| ___ and proper (correctly behaved) |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Demure |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Feb 2019 |
| ___ and proper |
New York Times |
04 Feb 2019 |
| Like a goody two-shoes |
USA Today |
30 Jan 2019 |
| Proper companion? |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Jan 2019 |
| Stiffly formal |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Unlikely to belch in public, say |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Overly proper |
|
|
| Demure |
|
|
| Old-maidish |
|
|
| Like a goody two-shoes |
|
|
| Straitlaced |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| Overly proper |
|
|
| ___ and proper (very formal and prudish) |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
USA Today |
03 Dec 2018 |
| Highly proper |
Family Time |
19 Nov 2018 |
| Starchy |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Nov 2018 |
| Stiffly formal |
Newsday |
23 Sep 2018 |
| Strait-laced |
Newsday |
12 Sep 2018 |
| Highly proper |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
Family Time |
15 Jul 2018 |
| Goody-goody |
USA Today |
29 May 2018 |
| Parking by the verge is proper |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
New York Times |
11 Feb 2018 |
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
LA Times Daily |
14 Jan 2018 |
| Goody-goody |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Starchy |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Adhering to old-fashioned modesty |
New York Times |
25 Dec 2017 |
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Partner of proper |
USA Today |
03 Sep 2017 |
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Stuffy |
LA Times Daily |
13 Jul 2017 |
| Partner of proper |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jul 2017 |
| Partner of proper |
|
|
| __ and proper (overly formal) |
Newsday |
03 Jul 2017 |
| Rigidly formal |
Newsday |
13 Jun 2017 |
| To behave in a very sophisticated manner |
|
|
| Eager |
New York Times |
13 Apr 2017 |
| Penny's on edge, being prudish |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Apr 2017 |
| Formally proper |
Family Time |
06 Mar 2017 |
| Straitlaced |
USA Today |
13 Feb 2017 |
| Demure |
|
|
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Partner of proper |
|
|
| Partner of proper |
|
|
| Adhering to old-fashioned modesty |
|
|
| Punctilious Trojan king has no answer |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Overly formal chief cut short |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Nov 2016 |
| Like a bluenose |
USA Today |
09 Nov 2016 |
| Page, reserved initially, I am finding formal |
|
|
| __ and proper (strait-laced) |
Newsday |
22 Aug 2016 |
| Stiffly formal |
The Guardian Quick |
09 Jul 2016 |
| Strait-laced |
USA Today |
20 May 2016 |
| Ignoring odd characters, upbraid maiden, being starchy |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 May 2016 |
| Straitlaced |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
The Guardian Speedy |
17 Jan 2016 |
| Strait-laced |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Jan 2016 |
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Very proper |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Dec 2015 |
| Stiff |
LA Times Daily |
11 Dec 2015 |
| Prudish |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Sep 2015 |
| Overly proper |
USA Today |
07 Aug 2015 |
| Chief, endlessly formal |
|
|
| Proper companion? |
LA Times Daily |
19 Jul 2015 |
| High in starch? |
Newsday |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Intolerant of impropriety |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Jun 2015 |
| Affectedly dainty or refined |
|
|
| Victorian |
LA Times Daily |
08 Apr 2015 |
| Rigidly formal |
Premier Sunday |
01 Mar 2015 |
| Stiffly neat |
USA Today |
28 Feb 2015 |
| Formally proper |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jan 2015 |
| Overly proper |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Rigidly formal |
|
|
| Proper companion? |
|
|
| Overly proper |
|
|
| Stiff |
|
|
| Overly formal |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
|
|
| Victorian |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Formally proper |
|
|
| Victorian |
|
|
| High in starch? |
|
|
| Fifth off 2 or 3 perhaps, to be formal |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Puritanical |
|
|
| Rigidly formal |
|
|
| Overly formal |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Quiet, on edge and rather demure |
|
|
| __ and proper |
|
|
| Proper companion? |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Rigid |
|
|
| Dainty |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Ever so proper |
|
|
| "Proper" companion? |
|
|
| Rigid |
|
|
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Dainty |
|
|
| Ever so proper |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| Extremely proper |
|
|
| Stiff |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Wanting everything just so |
|
|
| ___ and proper |
|
|
| Starchy |
|
|
| Puritanical |
|
|
| Not at all loose |
|
|
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Overly demure |
|
|
| Far from freewheeling |
|
|
| Puritanical |
|
|
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Proper partner? |
|
|
| Like Miss Manners |
|
|
| A proper partner? |
|
|
| Like Miss Manners |
|
|
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Rigidly formal |
|
|
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Straight-laced |
|
|
| With 10-Down and "and," rigidly formal |
|
|
| Overly decorous |
|
|
| Rigidly ceremonious |
|
|
| Highly proper |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| With 10-Down and "and," rigidly formal |
|
|
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Like schoolmarms, stereotypically |
|
|
| Wearing a long dress and a collar buttoned to the top, maybe |
|
|
| Square-toed |
|
|
| Governessy |
|
|
| Ever so proper |
|
|
| Prissy |
|
|
| Rigidly formal |
|
|
| Rigidly formal |
|
|
| Straitlaced |
|
|
| Puritanical |
|
|
| Partner of proper |
|
|
| Prudish |
|
|
| Formally proper |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Like a bluenose |
|
|
| Perhaps a little too neat |
|
|
| Rigid |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Not fond of blue humor |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Excessively polite and restrained |
|
|
| Straitlaced |
|
|
| Wanting everything just so |
|
|
| Square-toed |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Like Miss Marple |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
|
|
| Square-toed |
|
|
| Stiffly formal |
|
|
| Prudish |
|
|
| Formal |
|
|
| Proper mate |
|
|
| Overly decorous |
|
|
| Proper |
|
|
| __ and proper |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Proper mate |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Proper mate |
|
|
| Overly stiff |
|
|
| Not fond of dirty jokes, surely |
|
|
| First part |
|
|
| Victorian |
|
|
| Bluenosed |
|
|
| Decorous |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Straitlaced |
|
|
| Prudish |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Proper companion? |
|
|
| Decorous |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Proper |
|
|
| Formally precise |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Like schoolmarms |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Rigidly formal |
|
|
| Like Miss Manners |
|
|
| Formal |
|
|
| Inhibited |
|
|
| Like schoolmarms |
|
|
| Formal |
|
|
| Puritanical |
|
|
| Formal |
|
|
| Prudish |
|
|
| Straightlaced |
|
|
| Prissy |
|
|
| Straight-laced |
|
|
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Extremely proper |
|
|
| Proper's companion |
|
|
| Buttoned-up all the way |
|
|
| Victorian |
|
|
| Puritanical |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Very correct |
|
|
| Demure |
|
|
| Straightlaced |
|
|
| Stiffly neat |
|
|
| Most proper |
|
|
| Stiffly precise |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Proper |
|
|
| Schoolmarmish |
|
|
| Proper's partner |
|
|
| Straightlaced |
|
|
| Prudish |
|
|
| Sedate |
|
|
| Decorous |
|
|
| Proper's companion |
|
|
| Oh so proper |
|
|
| Prudish |
|
|
| Formal |
|
|
| Very proper |
|
|
| Proper |
|
|
| Proper partner |
|
|
| Shrub used for hedges |
|
|
| Stiffly proper |
|
|
| Stuffy |
|
|
| Stiffly precise |
|
|
| Kind of rose PAth? |
|
|
| Staid |
|
|
| Precise or prudish |
|
|
| Properly Victorian |
|
|
| Fussy |
|
|
| Old-maidish |
|
|
| Nice-Nelly |
|
|
| Sedate |
|
|
| Stiffly decorous |
|
|
| Neat |
|
|
| Precise. |
|
|
| Prissy. |
|
|
| Stiffly decorous. |
|
|
| Decorous. |
|
|
| Overprecise. |
|
|
| Strait-laced. |
|
|
| Old-maidish. |
|
|
| Stiffly neat. |
|
|
| Proper or formal. |
|
|
| Quaker host to Simon Pure. |
|
|
| Very decorous. |
|
|
| Strait-laced |
|
|
| Overly formal |
|
|
| Affectedly nice. |
|
|
| Affectedly proper. |
|
|
| Unbending. |
|
|
| Mid-Victorian. |
|
|
| Like a mid-Victorian. |
|
|
| Proper. |
|
|
| Neat and proper. |
|
|
| Stiffly formal. |
|
|
| Very proper. |
|
|
| Smugly nice. |
|
|
| Victorian. |
|
|
| Overmodest. |
|
|
| Demure. |
|
|
| Formally neat. |
|
|
| Descriptive of a Victorian lady. |
|
|