Real stickler for very minor rules Crossword Clue

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Real stickler for very minor rules Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

STICKLER (noun)
1. someone who insists on something
MINOR (adjective)
1. not of legal age
2. relatively moderate, limited, or small
MINOR (noun)
1. a young person of either sex
MINOR (verb)
1. have as one’s secondary field of study

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More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (10/3/2025) Answers

Across

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15. Focus for a nursing home worker

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17. Something "rolled out" for celebrities at awards shows

18. Condition that might be treated with Cognitive Processing Therapy, for short

19. The ___ Tour (source of six Guinness records for Taylor Swift)

20. Tools that help you get a grip

21. Do carelessly, casually

23. Test taken in lieu of a H.S. diploma

24. George ___, "Middlemarch" author

25. Woolly mamas on a farm

27. Some E.R. personnel

30. Large sports venues

31. You might make one if you're very confident that you're right

32. "Not to ___ my own horn, but ..."

33. Healthy equilibrium between the professional and personal

36. Tiny crawlers inside a formicarium

37. Kind of water that comes from the sink

38. On deck

39. What a nodding head indicates

40. Another name for a cougar

41. Strong winds

42. Shortened word that might drop -etition or -resentative

43. Relative of a veranda

45. Filled to the brim

48. Flower featured in many a Monet painting

49. Temperature between tepid and hot

51. Whiny sorts, pejoratively

53. Country between Turkey and Jordan

54. "Everybody will tell you the same thing!"

55. Tried to hook some long, wriggly fish

56. Temporary structure at Oktoberfest

57. Got up

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Down

1. CD player button to press when you really dislike a song

2. "Encore!"

3. Texts that might start "BREAKING …"

4. They lead to error messages when you click them

5. Employee's ID

6. "I'd appreciate if you don't complain while you wait"

7. What are the ___?

8. Last page on a wall calendar, for short

9. Has a real itching for

10. Pungent

11. Drains, as energy

12. Weeping willow or quaking aspen

13. Groups of matching cards, in rummy

15. Makes a mistake

19. Consumes something wholeheartedly

22. Baby Horse

23. Become enraged

26. In which Charlotte wrote messages about Wilbur

27. Gambling mecca of Monaco

28. "Tiger King" or "Making a Murderer"

29. Part of a recipe or a dance

30. Like baseball games not played at home

32. Attorney who might be called during an I.R.S. audit

34. Parents, bro and sis, etc.

35. Titular king in a Shakespeare play

42. Steel used to fortify concrete

44. Otherwise

45. Sign of a wound's healing

46. British buffoon

47. Lil' kid

48. Animal that is rewarded for being merciful toward a mouse, in an Aesop fable

50. Earned

52. 'See ya!'

53. Large expanse of water

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