High-maintenance Crossword Clue

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PRISSY

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(adjective)
1. poor enough to need help from others
2. demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree
(noun)
1. needy people collectively

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MAINTENANCE (noun)
1. the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
2. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
HIGH (noun)
1. a high place
2. a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
HIGH (adjective)
1. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
2. happy and excited and energetic
HIGH (adverb)
1. in a rich manner
2. at a great altitude

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

PRISSY
(6 letters)

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