Answer: PEDANT
PEDANT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 41 times.
Referring Clues:
- Hairsplitter
 - Nit-picker
 - Intellectual nitpicker
 - Educated show-off
 - Petty point maker
 - One who shows off his education
 - Stickler
 - One who goes strictly by the book
 - Strict teacher
 - Intellectual show-off
 - Intellectual showoff
 - Bookworm
 - Petty scholar
 - Teacher that goes strictly by the book
 - Dogmatic one
 - Bookish sort
 - Bookish sort
 - Overbearing scholar
 - Show-offy know-it-all
 - Bookish one
 - Scholar
 - Know-it-all, maybe
 - Nit-picking type
 - Educated showoff
 - Scholastic
 - Nitpicky know-it-all
 - Scholastic exhibitionist
 - Grammar stickler, e.g.
 - One fussy about minor details
 - Show-off scholar
 - Overly meticulous scholar
 - Nitpicker
 - Hairsplitting scholastic
 - Member of the grammar police, e.g.
 - Professional showoff
 - Intellectual stickler
 - Bluestocking
 - Formalist in teaching
 - Know-it-all
 - Nitpicky person
 - Stickler, of a sort
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 03, 2025
 - New York Times - May 12, 2025
 - New York Times - May 01, 2022
 - USA Today - April 27, 2022
 - LA Times - November 01, 2020
 - New York Times - August 12, 2018
 - LA Times - May 13, 2018
 - New York Times - July 13, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 09, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 22, 2016
 - Universal - August 16, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 02, 2016
 - New York Times - April 02, 2016
 - USA Today - August 13, 2015
 - New York Times - July 17, 2015
 - Universal - May 30, 2015
 - LA Times - November 19, 2014
 - LA Times - May 27, 2014
 - Washington Post - November 13, 2013
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 16, 2013
 
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