The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PRIME which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1962.
Of first quality crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters | 
|---|---|---|
| PRIME | 50 % | 5 | 
| AONE | 50 % | 4 | 
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Of first quality
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- prime
 - capital
 - choo
 - chopped
 - primed
 - second class
 - taster
 - unselfishness
 - boss
 - first-rate
 - premier
 - primeness
 
Crossword Answer definitions
PRIME noun- The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
 - The religious service appointed to this hour.
 - The early morning generally.
 - The earliest stage of something.
 - The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
 - The chief or best individual or part.
 - The first note or tone of a musical scale.
 - The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
 - A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
 - A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
 - Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
 - The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
 - Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
 - An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
 - The priming in a flintlock.
 - Contraction of prime lens, a film lens
 
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
 - First in time, order, or sequence.
 - First in excellence, quality, or value.
 - (lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
 - Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
 - Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
 - Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
 - Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
 - Lecherous, lewd, lustful.
 
- To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
 - To apply a coat of primer paint to.
 - To be renewed.
 - To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
 - (of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
 - To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
 - To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
 - To trim or prune.
 - To mark with a prime mark.
 
- An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
 
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