Related Clues:

• Like a schoolmaster punishing inept cad
• Overly concerned with minor details
• Overly fussy
• Annoyingly focused
• Hypermeticulous
• Movingly depict an academic
• Particularly persnickety
• It's too fussy for characters in psychoanalysis
• Fussy to a fault
• Particular doctor painted on canvas, primarily
• Beyond stuffy
• Seriously uptight
• Compulsively neat, say
• Hung up on minor academic details
• Overly meticulous