| Stickler, of a sort |
New York Times |
03 Oct 2025 |
| Scholarly show-off |
Newsday |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Excellent sort of person to be a copy editor |
New York Times |
31 Jul 2025 |
| Nitpicker troubled and in bad mood |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Jul 2025 |
| Nitpicker |
Universal |
15 Jun 2025 |
| High-level fighter cuffed by special person who likes to get things right (6) |
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| Nitpicker seen removing third link from necklace (6) |
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| Extremely precise poet, almost purist |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
06 Jun 2025 |
| Shattered Dane in gym is a stickler for detail (6) |
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| Nitpicker |
New York Times |
12 May 2025 |
| One concerned with insignificant details (6) |
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| Stickler |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Apr 2025 |
| One showing off academic knowledge subtly name-dropped Antony Flew |
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| Person who nitpicks your grammar, for example |
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| Department renewing this academic's term (6) |
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| "Shut up!" Bill's back interrupting nitpicker |
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| One strict on rules, repressed around US prosecutor (6) |
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| Household animal bites Daniel as he picks nits (6) |
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| The quibbler gets Dan in a temper |
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| Scholastic quibbler (6) |
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| Adept corrected welcomes new stickler |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
30 Sep 2024 |
| Lawyer looking into exercise books revealing a parader of knowledge (6) |
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| Dogmatist (6) |
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| Academic nitpicker |
Universal |
09 Jul 2024 |
| One who displays a slavish attention to rules and regulations (6) |
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| Person whose learning is excessively formal (6) |
Puzzler |
07 Jul 2024 |
| A know-all gets Dan in a temper (6) |
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| Longed to promote journalist (stickler for accuracy) |
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| Stuffy scholar |
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| How he panted! That's what you get for being over-smart! |
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| Know-it-all scholar |
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| He parades his knowledge of Shakespeare's schoolmaster (6) |
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| Precise person (6) |
Puzzler |
14 Apr 2024 |
| One who parades his knowledge |
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| Stickler and pet going out |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Apr 2024 |
| Nitpicker |
The Sun Two Speed |
04 Apr 2024 |
| One's obsessed with tiny details |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Mar 2024 |
| Scholar unusually adept about a certain point (6) |
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| Journalist involved in wheeze to reveal stickler (6) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
21 Feb 2024 |
| The know-all gets Dan in a temper (6) |
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| Nitpicking scholar |
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| Fussy person (6) |
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| Shut up about father being such a stickler |
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| American lawyer, inside, shut up dogmatist (6) |
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| Nit-picker in strop about book (6) |
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| Well-educated showoff |
Family Time |
11 Dec 2023 |
| One overly concerned with detail |
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| Desperate chap bitten by dog perhaps a former teacher |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jul 2023 |
| One concerned with trivial points of detail |
The Times Concise |
15 May 2023 |
| Exercise US prosecutor books? He'll still find fault with it |
The Guardian Quiptic |
09 Jan 2023 |
| Intellectual showoff |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Jan 2023 |
| Intellectual stickler |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Dec 2022 |
| Hairsplitter |
Universal |
02 Dec 2022 |
| Perfectionist exercises Italian poet endlessly |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Oct 2022 |
| Mount Etna deposits somewhat academic |
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| One's scrupulous editor under pressure with a set of books |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Aug 2022 |
| One particular exercise poet doesn't finish |
The Guardian Quiptic |
14 Feb 2022 |
| One particular exercise poet doesn't finish |
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| Bookish sort |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Jan 2022 |
| Quibbler |
The Guardian Quick |
03 Nov 2021 |
| Bookish sort |
Thomas Joseph |
27 Oct 2021 |
| Editor punches mostly rubbish nit-picker |
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| Stickler in bad mood about Bible book |
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| Person who's picky, upset and in a bad mood |
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| Particular person in prison will be visited by US lawyer |
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| Stickler Daniel in bad mood |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Nov 2020 |
| Nitpicker |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Nov 2020 |
| Intellectual nitpicker |
LA Times Daily |
01 Nov 2020 |
| Intellectual nitpicker |
The Washington Post |
01 Nov 2020 |
| Lover of minor detail |
The Times Concise |
30 Oct 2020 |
| Person prone to nitpicking |
USA Today |
23 Sep 2020 |
| One is overly-concerned with detail |
Irish Times Simplex |
21 Aug 2020 |
| Stickler |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Dogmatist and pet going out |
The Sun Two Speed |
12 Aug 2020 |
| Stickler died in training soldier |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 May 2020 |
| Stickler enraged and in bad mood |
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| Old teacher favoured pupil circumventing grade of proficiency |
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| Quibbler longed to displace editor |
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| Stickler for the rules gasped following editor's promotion |
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| Nit-picker removing end of chain from necklace |
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| Stickler |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Sep 2019 |
| She picks nits and distractedly feeds goldfish, perhaps |
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| Purist, extremely discriminating and not tolerant initially |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Jun 2019 |
| One picking nits from pet and dancing |
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| Stopped Anthony arresting quibbler |
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| Nitpicky know-it-all |
New York Times |
12 Aug 2018 |
| Write about lawyer — model quibbler |
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| Know-it-all |
LA Times Daily |
13 May 2018 |
| Know-it-all |
The Washington Post |
13 May 2018 |
| Perfectionist, sophist |
The Guardian Speedy |
21 Apr 2018 |
| Quiet worker detaining journalist is fussy sort |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Mar 2018 |
| Nit-picker |
The Telegraph Quick |
07 Mar 2018 |
| Know-it-all |
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| Nitpicky know-it-all |
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| Quiet editor, worker who pays attention to good grammar? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Oct 2017 |
| Nitpicker |
New York Times |
13 Jul 2017 |
| Person everyone describes as nit-picking type, for starters? |
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| Nitpicker |
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| I like to pick a rabbit say and put in for boiling |
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| Bookish sort |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Dec 2016 |
| Academically fussy person |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Nov 2016 |
| Intellectual stickler |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Nit-picker to kiss and cuddle, adopting fighter's standard |
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| Educated show-off |
Universal |
16 Aug 2016 |
| Intellectual showoff |
Thomas Joseph |
02 Aug 2016 |
| Member of the grammar police, e.g |
New York Times |
02 Apr 2016 |
| Educated show-off |
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| He's a know-all and goes round in a temper |
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| Holofernes for one gets nothing out of faulty notepad |
The Times Cryptic |
03 Dec 2015 |
| Huff and puff about editor being a dogmatic person? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Aug 2015 |
| Educated show-off |
USA Today |
13 Aug 2015 |
| One excessively concerned with detail |
The Times Concise |
09 Jul 2015 |
| Show-off scholar |
Universal |
30 May 2015 |
| Quibbler quietly meets poet, putting final point first |
The Times Cryptic |
25 May 2015 |
| Stickler for accuracy training and working out before beginning of tournament |
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| Educated show-off |
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| Show-off scholar |
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| Particular person long enthralling editor |
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| Expert briefly returns books for formalist |
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| Grammar stickler, e.g. |
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| One fussy about minor details |
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| Dogmatic teacher |
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| Nit-picker takes notes in exercise books |
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| Nitpicky know-it-all |
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| Intellectual nitpicker |
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| Intellectual show-off |
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| Scholastic exhibitionist |
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| Hairsplitter |
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| Nit-picking type |
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| Intellectual showoff |
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| Intellectual showoff |
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| Nit-picking type |
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| Educated showoff |
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| Book-smart person |
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| Intellectual nitpicker |
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| Educated show-off |
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| Stickler |
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| One who shows off his education |
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| Show-offish know-it-all |
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| Intellectual nitpicker |
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| Strict teacher |
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| One who goes strictly by the book |
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| Intellectual show-off |
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| Scholastic exhibitionist |
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| Academic |
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| Intellectual showoff |
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| Nitpicking one |
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| Petty point maker |
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| Stickler for detail |
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| Trivia master |
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| Hairsplitting scholastic |
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| Educated show-off |
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| Bookish sort |
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| Educated show-off |
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| Bookworm |
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| Tyrannical teacher? |
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| Know-it-all |
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| Nit-picker |
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| Teacher that goes strictly by the book |
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| Know-it-all type |
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| Hairsplitter |
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| Stuffed shirt |
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| Nit--picker |
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| Dogmatic teacher |
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| Dryasdust |
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| Show-off scholar |
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| Overdone egghead |
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| Hairsplitter |
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| Prig |
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| Bookish one |
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| Professorial showoff |
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| Doctrinaire |
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| Formalist |
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| One who goes strictly by the book |
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| Formalist in teaching |
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| Academic formalist |
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| Narrow-minded teacher |
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| Bluestocking |
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| Certain stickler |
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| Petty academic |
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| Pompous parader of knowledge |
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| Dogmatic teacher |
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| Bookish bore |
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| Precisionist |
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| Grandiloquent one |
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| He knows he knows |
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| Tiresome scholar |
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| Academic bore |
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| Scholar. |
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| Nit-picking scholar. |
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| Petty scholar. |
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| Teacher of a sort. |
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| Narrow-minded one. |
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| Bluestocking's cousin. |
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| Finical scholar. |
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| Overly erudite one. |
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| Know-it-all. |
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| Precise pedagogue. |
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| Scholarly showoff. |
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| Learned show-off. |
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| Intellectual snob. |
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| Learned one. |
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| Bluestocking. |
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