| One who wishes to preserve a practice's true essence |
The Times Concise |
16 Aug 2025 |
| One refusing to compromise - sit up angrily, making case for resistance |
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| Stickler for tradition |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Perfectionist (6) |
Puzzler |
15 Jun 2025 |
| Stickler for tradition |
Puzzler Backwords |
11 Apr 2025 |
| One insisting on perfection in rearranged US trip (6) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Stir up bewildered pedant |
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| Opposite of an iconoclast |
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| Very precise sort |
New York Times |
12 Jan 2025 |
| Quibbler upset knight entering place (6) |
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| Strict rule-follower |
Commuter |
09 Jul 2024 |
| Stickler for tradition (6) |
Puzzler |
08 Jun 2024 |
| Stickler for the rules is in place to welcome returning knight |
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| One unlikely to bend the rules |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Stickler for tradition |
Newsday |
25 Oct 2022 |
| Stickler |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Apr 2022 |
| Pressure on legal scholar losing the head with an uncompromising stickler for perfection |
Irish Times Crosaire |
09 Mar 2022 |
| Stir up trouble - the traditional type that's uncompromising |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Feb 2022 |
| Strict grammarian |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Jan 2022 |
| Overly formal type for all to see amid trips abroad |
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| Stickler |
Premier Sunday |
26 Sep 2021 |
| Over-fastidious person |
The Times Concise |
17 Aug 2021 |
| Stir up trouble - the traditional type that's uncompromising |
Irish Times Crosaire |
26 Jun 2021 |
| Stir up panic - the traditional type that's uncompromising |
Irish Times Crosaire |
16 Nov 2020 |
| Strict grammarian |
Universal |
24 Sep 2020 |
| Stickler for details |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Dec 2019 |
| Nit-picker or stickler |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Dec 2018 |
| Stir up trouble for pedant |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Dec 2018 |
| Strict observer |
LA Times Daily |
03 Jun 2018 |
| Strict observer |
The Washington Post |
03 Jun 2018 |
| Stickler, of a sort |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Jan 2018 |
| Strict observer |
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| Traditional type from 24 across is unfinished with primary |
Irish Times Crosaire |
23 Jun 2017 |
| Strict grammarian |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Jun 2017 |
| Stickler for perfection |
Universal |
24 Feb 2017 |
| One unlikely to experiment |
LA Times Daily |
03 Feb 2017 |
| Stickler for perfection |
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| Stickler |
New York Times |
13 Oct 2016 |
| Stickler |
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| Stickler for correctness |
Newsday |
10 Nov 2015 |
| Type not susceptible to compromise |
New York Times |
28 Jan 2015 |
| Stir up trouble for perfectionist |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Jan 2015 |
| Stickler for correctness |
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| One who does things by the book |
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| Type not susceptible to compromise |
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| Strict grammarian |
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| One resistant to change |
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| Strict adherent |
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| One insistent on perfection |
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| Strict adherent |
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| One unlikely to compromise |
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| Stickler for correctness |
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| Punctilious professor, e.g. |
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| Noncompromiser |
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| Uncompromising sort |
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| Stickler for perfection |
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| Precisionist |
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| Stickler |
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| Stickler on usage |
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| Follows the rules to the letter |
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| One intolerant of deviation |
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| Stickler |
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| Stickler |
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| Noncompromiser |
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| Rigorous linguist |
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| She's picky |
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| Strict traditionalist |
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| Stickler re diction, etc. |
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| Rigid grammarian |
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| Finicky grammarian |
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| Hidebound grammarian |
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| Perfectionist. |
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| One solicitous about use of words. |
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| One oversolicitous about use of language. |
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| Strict observer of precise usage. |
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| Oversolicitous one. |
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| Doctrinaire. |
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| Advocate of nicety in language. |
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| Stickler for correctness |
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