| Annoyingly inventive |
Newsday |
30 Aug 2025 |
| Annoyingly shrewd |
LA Times Daily |
19 Jun 2025 |
| Overly shrewd |
USA Today |
02 Feb 2021 |
| *Irritatingly confident of one’s own intelligence |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Dec 2019 |
| Annoyingly overconfident |
USA Today |
16 May 2019 |
| Annoyingly overconfident |
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| Annoyingly smart |
Universal |
26 Jun 2018 |
| Annoyingly smart |
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| Overly inventive ... or a hint to the answers to 17-, 26- and 42-Across |
New York Times |
29 Aug 2017 |
| Fetch over boy all treated as an arrogant know-all? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Mar 2017 |
| Overly inventive ... or a hint to the answers to 17-, 26- and 42-Across |
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| Hoisted with one's own petard |
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| Overly witty |
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| Overly intelligent |
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