Strait-laced sort Crossword Clue

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Strait-laced sort Crossword Answer

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PRIG

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(noun)
1. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

STRAIT-LACED (adjective)
1. exaggeratedly proper
STRAIT (noun)
1. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
2. a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
STRAIT (adjective)
1. narrow

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

PRIG
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
DRUPE

More WSJ Crossword (12/9/2024) Answers

Across

1. Shoe brand with a leaping cat logo

5. Renown

9. Zodiac sign between Twins and Lion

13. Agate used for cameos

14. Slightly

16. Openings in a TV schedule

18. Gives for a while

19. Pig's place

20. Washed out

21. Argue

22. Places for piercings, perhaps

24. Nation with the most coastline

27. Behind

28. Like the Sahara

29. Julianne of "Still Alice"

31. Yes, in Yokohama

34. Overnight repeats, of sorts

38. Shaggy-haired ox

39. Moves cautiously

40. Plant with soothing properties

41. Base's counterpart

42. Any drive or putt, in golf

44. Canine cross-breeds

49. Oak droppings

50. Barking beast

51. Compete

54. Deck for divination

55. Postpones until final stages, as contract costs, and a hint to the circled parts

57. Ships’ staffs

58. Mean creature

59. Egyptian goddess of fertility

60. Gas brand with toy trucks

61. Ottoman governors

62. Snap-together block brand

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Down

1. Cooking containers

2. Foot, fathom or furlong

3. What have we here?

4. Chopping tool

5. Carol refrain

6. Ring-shaped reef

7. Pirate address

8. Mag workers

9. Bring into being

10. Cost as much as

11. Yogurt shop option

12. Outperforms

15. Scheming sort

17. Went like lightning

21. Museum worker

22. “Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY)” singer Erykah

23. Online journals

24. Grant of “North by Northwest”

25. Vicinity

26. Shaving goof

29. Screw up

30. Count starter

31. Angelic glow

32. Frenzied

33. "Ah, understood"

35. Withdraws, as testimony

36. Forays

37. They’re pointy on Vulcans

41. Quiver contents

42. Quenches

43. Be a snitch

44. Gate feature

45. Without ___ in the world

46. Tiresome talkers

47. Missouri tribe

48. Publicly condemn

51. Bud holder

52. "Got it, daddy-o"

53. Gas brand north of the border

55. Hope of comedy

56. Gusher output

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