| Hair-splitting makes Ted panic Downawfully (8) |
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| Picky, precise |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jul 2025 |
| Petty intellectual |
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| Literal-minded (8) |
Puzzler |
09 May 2025 |
| Another tip - dance is too formal (8) |
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| Fond of nit-picking |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Mar 2025 |
| Meticulous exercise by head of department, on a foolish escapade |
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| Overly exact (8) |
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| Unusual portrayal of Dante in picture is stilted (8) |
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| Insistently precise (8) |
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| Too detail-oriented |
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| Fussily precise (8) |
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| 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 |
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| Overly concerned with rules and details (8) |
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| Hoped to have the House go against Conservative hairsplitting |
The Times Cryptic |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Schoolmasterly; fussy as to speech (8) |
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| Depict an injury as overly precise (8) |
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| Schoolmasterly pen, and cad it converted (8) |
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| Nice muscle covering girl boxing soldier, perhaps |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Jun 2024 |
| Ted in a panic tends to become schoolmasterly (8) |
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| Precise and particular |
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| Overly exact constable to detain awkwardly inside (8) |
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| Schoolmasterly (8) |
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| Making an excessive show of learning |
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| Insistent on formal rules |
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| Typical of a know-all, I see (8) |
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| Hair-splitting makes Ted panic awfully (8) |
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| Over concerned with correctness, engineer cited a new paper at first (8) |
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| Making an excessive show of the rules of language (8) |
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| Like the grammar police |
New York Times |
25 Jun 2022 |
| Nit-picking |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Jul 2021 |
| Dance tip sort of formal |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Particular doctor painted on canvas, primarily |
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| Hung up on minor academic details |
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| Nit-picking |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Daughter participating in exercises and frolic, following strict patterns |
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| Punctilious poet's raised foot above head in photo |
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| Overly fussy editor, under pressure, opposed to chapter |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Feb 2015 |
| Like a smug know-it-all |
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| Fussy editor opposed to interrupting law officer |
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| Pretentious in one's teaching |
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| Doctrinaire |
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| Ostentatious, academically |
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| Narrow-minded, as a teacher |
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| Schoolmasterish. |
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| Ostentatious of learning. |
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| Overscholarly. |
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| Narrow-minded. |
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| Pretentiously learned. |
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