Hair-splitting makes Ted panic Downawfully (8) |
|
|
Picky, precise |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jul 2025 |
Petty intellectual |
|
|
Literal-minded (8) |
Puzzler |
09 May 2025 |
Another tip - dance is too formal (8) |
|
|
Fond of nit-picking |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Mar 2025 |
Meticulous exercise by head of department, on a foolish escapade |
|
|
Overly exact (8) |
|
|
Unusual portrayal of Dante in picture is stilted (8) |
|
|
Insistently precise (8) |
|
|
Too detail-oriented |
|
|
Fussily precise (8) |
|
|
Washington taking against following games in particular |
The Telegraph Toughie |
20 Nov 2024 |
Insisting on accuracy, with film about Italian poet being back to front |
|
|
Overly concerned with rules and details (8) |
|
|
Hoped to have the House go against Conservative hairsplitting |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Sep 2024 |
Schoolmasterly; fussy as to speech (8) |
|
|
Depict an injury as overly precise (8) |
|
|
Schoolmasterly pen, and cad it converted (8) |
|
|
Nice muscle covering girl boxing soldier, perhaps |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Jun 2024 |
Ted in a panic tends to become schoolmasterly (8) |
|
|
Precise and particular |
|
|
Overly exact constable to detain awkwardly inside (8) |
|
|
Schoolmasterly (8) |
|
|
Making an excessive show of learning |
|
|
Insistent on formal rules |
|
|
Typical of a know-all, I see (8) |
|
|
Hair-splitting makes Ted panic awfully (8) |
|
|
Over concerned with correctness, engineer cited a new paper at first (8) |
|
|
Making an excessive show of the rules of language (8) |
|
|
Like the grammar police |
New York Times |
25 Jun 2022 |
Nit-picking |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Jul 2021 |
Dance tip sort of formal |
|
|
Overly fussy writer with a selection of good books in photo |
Irish Times Crosaire |
03 Jun 2020 |
Over-concerned with minor details |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Feb 2020 |
Like teacher, editor and social worker featured in illustration |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Nov 2019 |
Excessively scrupulous |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Sep 2019 |
Pompous prince, tad unhinged, kills dissenter at last |
|
|
Nit-picking |
Universal |
16 Sep 2018 |
Hung up on minor academic details |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
14 Sep 2018 |
. Academic, losing head, copied trick |
|
|
Particular doctor painted on canvas, primarily |
|
|
Hung up on minor academic details |
|
|
Nit-picking |
|
|
Dance pit built by finicky sort |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Nov 2017 |
Movingly depict an academic |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Oct 2017 |
Italian poet back to front in photo, like 21 |
|
|
Overly concerned with minor details |
Irish Times Simplex |
20 Mar 2017 |
Like a schoolmaster punishing inept cad |
The Telegraph Toughie |
28 Feb 2017 |
Overly focused on minor rules |
LA Times Daily |
01 Feb 2017 |
Over-concerned with details |
The Times Concise |
26 Sep 2016 |
Political correctness drowning confused date in nit-picking |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Dec 2015 |
Like a smug know-it-all |
Premier Sunday |
11 Oct 2015 |
Pernickety poet finally coming to the fore in film |
|
|
Daughter participating in exercises and frolic, following strict patterns |
|
|
Punctilious poet's raised foot above head in photo |
|
|
Overly fussy editor, under pressure, opposed to chapter |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Feb 2015 |
Like a smug know-it-all |
|
|
Fussy editor opposed to interrupting law officer |
|
|
Pretentious in one's teaching |
|
|
Doctrinaire |
|
|
Ostentatious, academically |
|
|
Narrow-minded, as a teacher |
|
|
Schoolmasterish. |
|
|
Ostentatious of learning. |
|
|
Overscholarly. |
|
|
Narrow-minded. |
|
|
Pretentiously learned. |
|
|