| Pedant's delight during summer on vacation |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
31 Aug 2025 |
| Very precise individual line in adhesive label |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
06 Aug 2025 |
| Obstinately demanding person |
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| Second feather, say, one splitting hairs? (8) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Jul 2025 |
| Pedant (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
25 Jul 2025 |
| Purist |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Jul 2025 |
| Perfectionist staff left Keir regularly |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
24 Jun 2025 |
| He's fussy, as the label carrying the number will show (8) |
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| Punctilious individual beginning to solve tricky puzzle |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Apr 2025 |
| One who insists on a bit of rhubarb with some celery? (8) |
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| One who keeps going on about a learner being a punctilious type (8) |
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| It is brought up by newly-appointed clerk, one who's 25? (8) |
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| Person who insists on a certain quality |
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| Dogmatist left label on the outside (8) |
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| Pedantic and demanding person |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
16 Dec 2024 |
| A person who insists on a certain quality or type of behaviour (8) |
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| One's particular about how things are done (8) |
The Guardian Quick |
29 Nov 2024 |
| Perfectionist's make-up trickles (8) |
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| Demanding person (8) |
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| Pedant noted label worn by leading lady |
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| Label length took in pedant (8) |
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| One wanting great precision in line in display material |
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| Being 21ac, Rod gets the back half of an antler (8) |
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| Punctilious contender from left loading weapon |
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| Fusspot |
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| Pernickety person (8) |
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| Pedant, fusspot |
The Times Concise |
11 May 2024 |
| He keeps going on about a learner being a punctilious type (8) |
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| One less than flexible pole and feather duster? |
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| One who's determined to preserve rules essentially? |
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| Criticism over clerk removing jacket, a punctilious sort (8) |
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| Perfectionist finding swab originally left inside heart (8) |
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| Fusspot wrapped adhesive label around letterhead (8) |
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| Martinet succeeded overseeing trout fisherman? |
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| Singular person who amuses perfectionist |
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| Singular person who amuses perfectionist (8) |
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| Head of school, teaser and martinet? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Dec 2022 |
| Small chap manually catching fish, a particular type |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Oct 2022 |
| Perfectionist provided ultimately faultless puzzle |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Jul 2022 |
| Someone who fastidiously insists on something |
Irish Times Simplex |
15 Feb 2022 |
| Disciplinarian, martinet |
Irish Times Simplex |
03 Feb 2022 |
| Fussy type covers front of ledger with adhesive label |
The Times Cryptic |
22 Nov 2021 |
| Perfectionist left in label |
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| Authoritarian abuse over the French right |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Aug 2021 |
| Large adhesive label covers disciplinarian |
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| Label describing lecturer as pedant? |
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| Pedant needs to stay alert in the middle |
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| Student's prime requirement – someone to amuse or disciplinarian? |
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| Disciplinarian |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Jan 2021 |
| Insert line in notice for pedant |
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| Exacting sort |
The Washington Post |
08 Feb 2020 |
| Exacting sort |
LA Times Daily |
08 Feb 2020 |
| Punctilious type left in gummed label |
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| Precise sort of knife left cuts |
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| Singular problem for punctilious person |
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| Disciplinarian, martinet |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Jul 2019 |
| There's no pleasing purist nun with a frog in her throat |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Jul 2019 |
| Disciplinarian left adhesive label outside |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 May 2019 |
| Pedant |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 May 2019 |
| Stamp perhaps left inside by perfectionist |
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| Nit-picker |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 May 2018 |
| Special, tricky puzzle for pernickety individual |
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| Perfectionist |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Jan 2018 |
| Fussy person glued label about learner |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Oct 2017 |
| Demanding individual senior nurses apply light touch |
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| Label outlining conclusion of anal pedant |
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| Perfectionist beginning to sob, heart broken by learner |
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| Fusspot's second difficult problem |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Mar 2017 |
| Perfectionist inserting line in attachable notice |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Jan 2017 |
| Perfectionist beginning to sob, heart broken by learner |
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| Baton Rouge's first to welcome the French martinet |
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| There's no pleasing purist nun swallowing frog in her throat |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Jun 2016 |
| One fastidiously insists on something |
Irish Times Simplex |
13 May 2016 |
| One hard to budge |
Family Time |
10 Jan 2016 |
| Unyieldingly insistent type |
Premier Sunday |
10 Jan 2016 |
| Martinet |
The Telegraph Quick |
28 Oct 2015 |
| Pedant succeeded with puzzle |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
22 Oct 2015 |
| Left wearing label 'pedantic type' |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
18 Jul 2015 |
| Perfectionist gives son a problem |
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| Label's left inside for perfectionist |
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| Line taken by persistent sort (fusspot) |
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| Pedant has left in the price tag |
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| Perfectionist |
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| One hard to budge |
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| Person not easily budged |
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| Perfectionist |
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| Perfectionist |
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| Perfectionist |
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| Slave to detail |
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| Difficult problem |
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| Purist |
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| Strict disciplinarian. |
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