| Traditional anglers shunning modern aids (*is turps) (7) |
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| Sticklers |
Commuter |
13 Mar 2025 |
| Possibly it spurs those who are sticklers for style (7) |
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| Strip us (anag) (7) |
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| Traditional anglers shunning modern aids (7) |
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| Being over-fastidious, they might give it spurs (7) |
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| Possibly stirs up the pedants (7) |
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| Stirs up trouble for the over- fastidious (7) |
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| Sticklers for perfection |
Newsday |
26 Apr 2023 |
| Pedants elevated knighted figure in places |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Oct 2022 |
| Grammar police, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
09 Jul 2022 |
| Pedants, dogmatists |
The Times Concise |
07 Feb 2022 |
| Sticklers |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Jul 2020 |
| Revolutionary stirs up pedants |
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| Grammar police, for instance |
Newsday |
12 Jan 2019 |
| Sticklers |
Universal |
11 Jan 2019 |
| Sticklers |
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| By-the-book types |
The Washington Post Sunday |
25 Nov 2018 |
| Uncompromising types |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jul 2018 |
| Uncompromising types |
The Washington Post |
28 Jul 2018 |
| Sticklers for the rules |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2018 |
| Sticklers for the rules |
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| Uncompromising types |
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| Ones not likely to break the rules |
Universal |
10 Dec 2016 |
| Ones not likely to break the rules |
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| Pedantic folk upset knight in places |
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| Slang users' foes? |
Eugene Sheffer |
02 Jan 2015 |
| They don't compromise |
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| Tampering opponents |
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| French Academy members, e.g. |
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| Strict sorts |
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| Sticklers |
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| Strict rule-observers |
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| Pedants |
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| They frown on slang |
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| Strict observers of the rules |
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| Fanatics of a sort |
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| They go by the book |
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| Sticklers |
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| Language conservatives |
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| Precisionists |
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| Particular ones |
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| Overparticular persons. |
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| Careful speakers. |
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| Meticulous grammarians. |
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| Precise persons. |
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| Advocates of precise usage in language. |
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