Answer: PRIME
PRIME is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 94 times.
Referring Clues:
- 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
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - June 05, 2025
 - New York Times - March 21, 2025
 - USA Today - October 25, 2024
 - LA Times - October 24, 2024
 - USA Today - February 02, 2024
 - New York Times - August 07, 2023
 - USA Today - June 26, 2023
 - LA Times - May 18, 2023
 - USA Today - February 03, 2023
 - USA Today - September 16, 2022
 - USA Today - February 09, 2022
 - USA Today - September 16, 2021
 - New York Times - September 16, 2021
 - LA Times - May 10, 2021
 - New York Times - May 05, 2021
 - USA Today - April 12, 2021
 - Universal - December 20, 2020
 - Universal - December 06, 2020
 - Netword - September 21, 2020
 - Universal - June 03, 2020
 
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