Horrify all puritanical people, acting licentiously to begin with (5) Crossword Clue

Here is the answer for the crossword clue Horrify all puritanical people, acting licentiously to begin with (5) featured in Guardian Quick Cryptic puzzle on September 26, 2026. We have found 40 possible answers for this clue in our database. Among them, one solution stands out with a 98% match which has a length of 5 letters. We think the likely answer to this clue is APPAL.

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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% APPAL Horrify all puritanical people, acting licentiously to begin with (5) (5) The Guardian Quick Cryptic Sep 26, 2026
5% WANTONLY Without justification or licentiously (8) The Telegraph Quick Sep 21, 2026
5% AGHAST Horrified (6) (6) The Guardian Quick Sep 15, 2026
4% THEME Those people beginning to explain motif (5) (5) The Sun Two Speed Sep 23, 2026
4% ORIGIN Beginning (6) LA Times Daily Sep 20, 2026
4% RELIC Souvenir of pure licentiousness (5) (5) Mirror Cryptic Sep 18, 2026
4% ONSET Beginning (5) The Telegraph Plusword Sep 18, 2026
4% SEERED Begin to boil (6) New York Times Sep 18, 2026
4% COTTONGIN *___ on to (beginning to understand) (9) Universal Sep 16, 2026
4% END Opposite of 'begin' (3) Puzzler Backwords Sep 16, 2026

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