Answer: PRIME
PRIME is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 94 times.
- Best rate
- Second to none
- Two, for one
- Choice
- Ready
- In the ___ of life
- Prepare the engine
- Apply a basecoat to
- Top quality, as beef
- Word before cut or time
- Most important
- Highest grade?
- Like 2 or 7, but not 27
- Like top-quality beef
- 2 or 3, but not 4
- Much-watched interest rate
- First-rate
- __ minister
- Time of your life
- Rate in the financial pages
- Rate in the news
- Highest-quality
- Principal
- Word before number or rate
- Prepare for painting
- Kind of minister or suspect
- Grade of beef
- Of superior grade
- Of the highest grade
- Beef designation
- Kind of rate or suspect
- Word with time or suspect
- Type of time or minister
- Best-quality
- Steak designation
- Steak rating, and word that can precede the first words of the answers to starred clues
- High-quality
- ___ minister
- 7 or 11
- Interest rate benchmark
- ______ time
- Of the highest quality
- Beef rating
- Top-rated
- Meat rating
- Like 3, 5, and 7
- Meryl Streep movie
- First-quality
- First-rate
- Most fundamental
- Get ready
- Heyday
- Kind of minister or mover
- First in quality
- Peak years
- Springtime of life
- Type of rib
- Like standing rib roast
- Cut of beef
- Fed concern
- High beef rating
- With 70-Across, prized programming slot ... or a hint to the first two parts of the answers to starred clues
- First in degree
- Kind of number
- Amazon offering
- ___ minister (British leader)
- Optimum
- Peak
- Preceder of rate and time
- High-quality, as beef
- Type of minister
- Coach
- Time preceder
- Like 11 and 17
- Superior beef grade
- Superior beef rating
- Best of all
- Resident at Ottawa's 24 Sussex Drive
- Like the number 19
- Highest grade of steak
- Like three and seven
- Like 3, 5, and 7, but not 1
- Top-notch
- Like the two 40-Across in the grid for this answer
- Like 2 and 5 but not 25
- Like 2017 and 2027
- Like the number 17
- Like the numbers 11, 13 and 17
- Word with number or time
- Top-quality, as beef
- Like 2, 3 and 23
- Amazon option
- Top-quality
- Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025