| Dorky one |
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| Uncool sort |
LA Times Daily |
01 Apr 2024 |
| Nerdy one |
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| Nerdy American girl coming out holding The Times |
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| Nerdy sort |
LA Times Mini |
10 Mar 2024 |
| Geek |
LA Times Daily |
18 Feb 2024 |
| Square |
New York Times |
25 Jan 2024 |
| You and I tucked in debutante's American anorak (5) |
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| You and I tucked in debutante's American anorak |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Jan 2024 |
| You and I getting into bed upset nerd |
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| In double bed initially, diminutive nerd (5) |
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| In double bed initially, diminutive nerd |
The Guardian Cryptic |
27 Nov 2023 |
| Nerdy type |
LA Times Daily |
09 Nov 2023 |
| Dorky sort |
LA Times Daily |
26 Oct 2023 |
| Socially inept sort |
LA Times Daily |
17 Oct 2023 |
| Dorky sort |
LA Times Daily |
28 Sep 2023 |
| One rocking a pocket protector |
LA Times Daily |
15 Sep 2023 |
| American nerd |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Aug 2023 |
| Doofus |
USA Today |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Nerd |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Jul 2023 |
| Fool across the pond first to decry little book |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
20 Apr 2023 |
| Nerd |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Mar 2023 |
| American fool |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Mar 2023 |
| Socially inept sort |
New York Times |
09 Jan 2023 |
| In America, a slight girl coming out clutching the Guardian |
The Guardian Cryptic |
06 Jan 2023 |
| Geeky type |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2022 |
| Bookish misfit |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Dec 2022 |
| Nerd |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Sep 2022 |
| American swot — bedew (anag) |
The Guardian Quick |
07 May 2022 |
| Socially awkward sort |
Wall Street Journal |
04 May 2022 |
| Nerdy person |
Family Time |
28 Mar 2022 |
| Informal term for a socially awkward person |
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| Zero-to-hero character, in film tropes |
The Washington Post Sunday |
19 Dec 2021 |
| Dork, slangily |
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| Nerd |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Nov 2021 |
| 'Adorkable' one, maybe |
New York Times |
11 Aug 2021 |
| Dorky person |
USA Today |
25 Jul 2021 |
| Dorky sort |
The Washington Post Sunday |
04 Jul 2021 |
| Uncool one |
Newsday |
28 Mar 2021 |
| Social misfit |
Universal |
05 Feb 2021 |
| Uncool one [#2 of 7] |
Newsday |
05 Feb 2021 |
| Doofus |
USA Today |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Nerd |
Universal |
07 Nov 2020 |
| Nerd |
New York Times |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Anorak too small to wear, don't bother initially |
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| Geeky sort |
LA Times Daily |
09 Aug 2020 |
| Geeky sort |
The Washington Post |
09 Aug 2020 |
| Poindexter |
LA Times Daily |
14 Jul 2020 |
| Poindexter |
The Washington Post |
14 Jul 2020 |
| Uncool dude |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2020 |
| Not-so-popular sort |
Universal |
06 Jul 2020 |
| Socially inept sort |
The Washington Post |
05 Jun 2020 |
| Socially inept sort |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jun 2020 |
| One royal society girl hugs is a nerd |
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| Nerd |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 Apr 2020 |
| Dork relative |
Family Time |
29 Mar 2020 |
| Dork |
New York Times |
15 Mar 2020 |
| Dumbo: Disney's brainchild initially bringing in little? |
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| Pejorative term used in high school comedies |
The Washington Post Sunday |
02 Feb 2020 |
| Nerd |
Canadiana |
20 Jan 2020 |
| Foreign weed given to British fool |
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| Dimwitted "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" dinosaur |
LA Times Daily |
15 Dec 2019 |
| Dimwitted 'We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story' dinosaur |
The Washington Post |
15 Dec 2019 |
| Geeky type |
The Washington Post |
27 Nov 2019 |
| Geeky type |
LA Times Daily |
27 Nov 2019 |
| Social misfit |
LA Times Daily |
17 Nov 2019 |
| Social misfit |
The Washington Post |
17 Nov 2019 |
| Fool in NY is first to diss small book |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jul 2019 |
| Loser |
New York Times |
12 Jul 2019 |
| Poindexter |
New York Times |
05 Jul 2019 |
| Socially awkward type |
The Washington Post Sunday |
21 Apr 2019 |
| Hardly Joe Cool |
New York Times |
06 Apr 2019 |
| Jerk knocking insect on hollow wood over |
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| Nerdy sort |
The Washington Post |
27 Feb 2019 |
| Nerdy sort |
LA Times Daily |
27 Feb 2019 |
| Total nerdburger |
New York Times |
13 Jan 2019 |
| Dork (slang) |
|
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| Hardly Joe Cool |
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| Poindexter |
|
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| Nerdy sort |
|
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| Total nerdburger |
|
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| Loser |
|
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| American jerk seeing worker maybe with daughter, bowled over |
|
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| Uncool one |
New York Times |
11 Nov 2018 |
| Geek to go on date with bachelor |
|
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| Inadequate person finally found new life, some job |
|
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| Uncool sort |
New York Times |
19 Aug 2018 |
| Informal term for a socially awkward person |
|
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| Nerd's associate |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Feb 2018 |
| Uncool sort |
Jonesin |
09 Jan 2018 |
| Uncool one |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Brainy introvert |
Newsday |
21 Dec 2017 |
| Dork |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
22 Sep 2017 |
| Level of noise overwhelms little nerd |
|
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| A geeky type or a social misfit |
|
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| American fool, first person to be taken in by posh female |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Jul 2017 |
| Social misfit |
New York Times |
17 Apr 2017 |
| Socially goofy one |
Universal |
16 Apr 2017 |
| Uncool dude |
USA Today |
27 Mar 2017 |
| Square, nerdy sort |
Universal |
08 Mar 2017 |
| Nerdy guy |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Feb 2017 |
| Social misfit |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| Socially goofy one |
|
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| Square, nerdy sort |
|
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| Square since the '80s |
Newsday |
31 Dec 2016 |
| Twerp |
Newsday |
25 Dec 2016 |
| Socially inept sort |
USA Today |
06 Nov 2016 |
| Uncool type |
Premier Sunday |
16 Oct 2016 |
| Uncool sort |
USA Today |
04 Oct 2016 |
| Geek |
Universal |
09 Aug 2016 |
| Dead small and born a fool |
|
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| Nerd relative |
Premier Sunday |
17 Apr 2016 |
| Democrat sites collectively hacked into by European geek |
The Telegraph Toughie |
06 Apr 2016 |
| The nerd departs with a small book |
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| Nerdy sort |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Mar 2016 |
| Dorky person |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Feb 2016 |
| Girl coming out we must stop is a jerk |
The Times Cryptic |
07 Jan 2016 |
| Uncool sort |
|
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| Socially inept sort |
|
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| Geek |
|
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| Little is taken in by dumb vacant nerd |
|
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| Uncool sort |
The Washington Post |
24 Nov 2015 |
| Kin of 49-Across |
Universal |
27 Sep 2015 |
| Nerd starts to doubt whether erudition excites babes |
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| Nerd one |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Apr 2015 |
| Hardly Mr. Cool |
USA Today |
22 Feb 2015 |
| Geek |
New York Times |
20 Jan 2015 |
| Dorky sort |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Social misfit |
|
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| Geek |
|
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| Hardly Mr. Cool |
|
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| Kin of 49-Across |
|
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| Social misfit |
|
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| Nerd or nebbish |
|
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| One who may be "adorkable" |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Square peg, socially speaking |
|
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| Poindexter |
|
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| Nerd observing partners between the sheets, lying back |
|
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| Nerdy type |
|
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| Screech Powers, famously |
|
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| Nerd's kin |
|
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| Hardly Mr. Cool |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Nerdy type |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Geekazoid |
|
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| Antisocial guy finally read short book |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| Mr. Cool's opposite |
|
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| One in with the out-crowd |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| One in with the out-crowd |
|
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| Weenie |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| Social misfit |
|
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| Brainy misfit |
|
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| Nerdy sort |
|
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| Uncool one |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Doofus |
|
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| Bully's victim |
|
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| Nerdy sort |
|
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| Squarepants |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| One who's definitely not in the in-crowd |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| Geek |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Twerp |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Uncool sort |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Twerp |
|
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| Nerdy sort |
|
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| Uncool person |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Nerdy type |
|
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| Dorky sort |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| Social misfit |
|
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| Nerdy guy |
|
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| Geek |
|
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| One of the out-crowd? |
|
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| One of the out-crowd? |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Loser |
|
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| Nerdish guy |
|
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| Nerdy guy |
|
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| Loser |
|
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| Socially inept person |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Loser |
|
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| Yes-man |
|
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| Future physicist, perhaps |
|
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| Nerd's peer |
|
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| Flunky |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Propeller-head |
|
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| Relationship of power that restricts little American nerd |
|
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| Nerdy guy |
|
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| Nerd |
|
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| Wimp |
|
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| Dork |
|
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| Live action role player, likely |
|
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| Tinder reject, likely |
|
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| Taped-glasses type |
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