Last seen in:
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 29,736 - Jul 24 2021
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,818 - Jan 18 2021
- Universal - Sep 16 2018
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 13,993 - Mar 16 2015
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 13,285 - Dec 6 2012
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 5076 - February 16, 2010
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 4895 - July 18, 2009
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 4646 - September 30, 2008
Related Clues:
- Abstruse
- Academic
- Like a know-it-all show-off
- Stodgily erudite
- Doctrinaire
- Nitpicking
- Pretentious in one's teaching
- Showing off one's learning
- Insisting on sticking stricktly to the rules
- Academic or didactic
- It's so doctrinaire to finish with a caper like this
- By the way of 29 across with a class of a caper at last
- Academic takes exercise with daughter, the old buffoon!
- Nit-picking editor opposed to cutting inoffensive use of language
- Fussy about correctness