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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