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• Zero-to-hero character, in film tropes
• Buffoonish sort
• Nerdy person
• American swot — bedew (anag)
• Pesky type
• Silly person, Oscar, leaving tower at first sign of panic
• Bookish misfit
• Chief __, Elon Musk's adopted nickname
• In America, a slight girl coming out clutching the Guardian
• American fool
• A silly or contemptible person
• Dope mostly affected way of speaking
• Fool across the pond first to decry little book
• Annoying little brother, say
• Tease — nincompoop