Puritan
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

RED
Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

4 letters

DOUR
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

FIRM
The members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"

HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

IRON
A golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head

PRIM
Contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"

YOGI
United States baseball player (born 1925)

PRIG
A person regarded as arrogant and annoying

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PRUDE
A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

ETHIC
The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; "the Puritan ethic"; "a person with old-fashioned values"

YOGIN

FAKIR
A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man

REBEL
Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

RIGID
Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

STERN
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

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GRUNDY

HERMIT
One retired from society for religious reasons

MAOIST
An advocate of Maoism

PROPER
Limited to the thing specified; "the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper"

PURIST
Someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

SEVERE
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

STRICT
Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

YANKIE

YANKEE
An American (especially to non-Americans)

ZEALOT
A fervent and even militant proponent of something

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ASCETIC
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

AUSTERE
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

BIGOTED
Blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

CHARLEY

DERVISH
An ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements

FANATIC
A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill

JACOBIN
A member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

KILLJOY
Someone who spoils the pleasure of others

MARXIST
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

OLDMAID
A card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')

PIETIST

PRUDISH
Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

UPTIGHT
Being in a tense state

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HARDLINE
Firm and uncompromising; "a hard-line policy"

IRONCLAD
A wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor

OBDURATE
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

ORTHODOX
Adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"

PURISTIC

RIGORIST

RIGOROUS
Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

SANNYASI
A Hindu religious mendicant

STUBBORN
Not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

TRAPPIST
Member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence

BLUENOSE
A native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia

MORALIST
Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

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ABSTAINER
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

ANARCHIST
An advocate of anarchism

ANCHORITE
One retired from society for religious reasons

BOLSHEVIK
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

CATHARIST

COMMUNIST
A socialist who advocates communism

HARDNOSED

HIDEBOUND
Stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded

IMPLIABLE

IRONBOUND

MENDICANT
A pauper who lives by begging

OBSTINATE
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

PIETISTIC
Of or relating to Pietism; "the Pietistic movement"

PURITANIC
Morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

ROCKBOUND
Abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps; "the rock-ribbed coast of Maine"

TERRORIST
A radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

UNBENDING
Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"

VICTORIAN
A person who lived during the reign of Victoria

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FLAGELLANT
A person who whips himself as a religious penance

FRANCISCAN
A Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order

GOODYGOODY

INEXORABLE
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

INFLEXIBLE
Incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"

INTOLERANT
Narrow-minded about cherished opinions

IRONHANDED

MORALISTIC
Narrowly and conventionally moral

RELENTLESS
Never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"

RIGORISTIC

SUBVERSIVE
A radical supporter of political or social revolution

UNYIELDING
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

WALDENSIAN

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ALBIGENSIAN
Of or relating to Albigenses or Albigensianism

MUSCLEBOUND

PROCRUSTIAN

PURITANICAL
Morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"

RELIGIONIST
A person addicted to religion or a religious zealot

SABBATARIAN
One who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism)

SANSCULOTTE

STIFFNECKED

STRAITLACED
Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

UNRELENTING
Harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter"

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DISAPPROVING
Expressing or manifesting disapproval

MIDVICTORIAN

NARROWMINDED

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REVOLUTIONARY
A radical supporter of political or social revolution

REVOLUTIONIST
A radical supporter of political or social revolution

STRAIGHTLACED
Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

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FUNDAMENTALIST
A supporter of fundamentalism