| Overly precise behaviour (8) |
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| Excessive concern with minor detail |
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| Undue formality |
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| Nitpicking of editor in the larder (8) |
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| Hairsplitting behaviour |
The Times Concise |
06 Dec 2024 |
| Little Edward in pantry quibbling (8) |
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| Nit-picking editor in room off kitchen |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
06 Jul 2024 |
| Overscrupulousness from Edward filling larder (8) |
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| Schoolmasterish quality of journalist in larder (8) |
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| Petty learning |
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| Engaging lawyer, go after Trinidad estate for unduly rigorous formality |
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| Writer with attempt to capture US lawyer’s excessive precision |
The Times Cryptic |
26 Sep 2022 |
| Pettifoggery from editor in store |
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| Ostentatious academicism |
Newsday |
01 Mar 2019 |
| Nit-picking fellow going into favourite lines |
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| . Stillroom for education to be incorporated in this |
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| Fastidiousness comes from editor stuck in room |
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| Nit-picking editor entering kitchen store |
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| Opens epicurean dips in food store with excessive attention to detail |
Irish Times Crosaire |
27 Mar 2017 |
| Still room to absorb education that's hair-splitting |
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| Den party (anag.) |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Oct 2016 |
| Nit-picking editor brought in to criticise essay |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
31 Jan 2016 |
| Criticise essay in which journalist's shown dogmatism |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 Nov 2015 |
| Over-attention to detail |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Jan 2015 |
| Excessive attention to details |
Family Time |
04 Jan 2015 |
| Academic snobbery |
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| Know-it-all's tell-it-all |
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| Fusspot's trait |
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| Undue display of knowledge |
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| Nit-picking journo in grocery store? |
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| Academic purism |
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| Academic hot air |
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| Display of learning |
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| Ostentatious show of knowledge |
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| Dry-as-dust scholarship. |
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| Bluestocking's liability. |
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| Didacticism. |
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