- NIT
- Coll. basketball tourney
- Hoops tourney, for short
- This isn't welcome in school
- Little louse
- Nottingham nerd
- Thing to pick
- Minor problem
- NCAA tourney's lesser cousin
- Pickable thing
- Basketball tournament for thirty-two who didn't make it to the NCAAs
- Minor quibble
- Snack for a grooming monkey, maybe
- Something small to pick
- Prefix for wit
- Annual competition first won by the Temple Owls, for short
- Basketball championship of which St. John's has won the most, 6
- Small problem
- Building block
- Juvenile louse
- TCU won it in '17: Abbr.
- Small louse
- Minor annoyance
- Minor problem to address
- Botheration
- Insignificant problem
- Minor complaint
- One of the basketball tournaments
- Louse egg
- Minor infelicity
- Pick of a fault-finder?
- March hoops event (abbr.)
- Something to pick
- Tiny criticism
- Quibble
- Item picked
- Egg of a louse
- Petty complaint
- Tiny louse
- Proverbial item to pick
- Insect egg
- Annual Madison Sq. Garden event
- One with a lousy future?
- Oft picked item
- Future louse
- Imbecile, in British slang
- Postseason college-basketball competition
- Silly fellow
- Fool, in Folkestone
- Minor flaw
- Postseason hoops competition, for short
- Small detail, informally
- It's usually not worth arguing about
- Pettifogger's picky point
- Quibbler's concern
- Subject of certain crossword blog comments, some say
- Head egg
- Scalp denizen
- Beginning of a certain parasite
- Cause of some head-scratching reactions
- Oxford comma vs. no Oxford comma, to some
- Subject of many tangential Internet arguments
- Unpleasant brush sight
- Unreasonable thing to sweat over
- Leaving a dirty dish in the sink, to some
- What a picky person might pick
- Coll. basketball competition
- Lead-in for wit or pick
- Spr. basketball tourney
- It's picked by the picky
- Lousy pick?
- Louse-to-be
- ___-picking (petty criticism)
- Carper's pick?
- Coll. cagers' contest
- Coll. hoops competition
- Critic's pick
- NCAA basketball tournament competitor
- Oft-picked thing
- Prelude to pick
- It can be picked
- One of the "pickings" hidden in five puzzle answers
- Trivial detail
- College hoops contest since 1938 (abbr.)
- It may be picked
- Kind of picker
- Minor objection
- Small point
- Trivial criticism
- Small complaint
- Petty peeve
- Picky problem
- Point to pick
- Small point to pick
- Start to pick?
- Thing picked by a quibbler?
- Wit's starter
- Minor criticism
- Trivial complaint
- Minor imperfection
- Petty grievance
- Trivial objection
- What a picky fellow might pick
- ___-picking
- Baby louse
- Microcritique
- Louse Jr.
- Picked youth
- Twit to a Brit
- Basketball tourn.
- Tiny insect
- Annual coll. basketball competition
- Insignificant detail
- N.Y.C. college basketball event
- Tiny parasite
- UCLA won it in 1985
- College hoops event, initially
- Complaint that's "picked"
- Picked picayune point
- It's hardly worth picking
- Picker lead-in
- Trivial point to pick
- Wit and pick lead-in
- Dunderhead, in Dover
- Picked beef?
- Young louse
- Trivial point
- Little thing to pick
- Niggling detail
- Tiny beef
- Picked complaint
- Bit of carping
- Piddling point to pick
- Small beef
- Picayune point to pick
- Point trivially picked
- Tiny complaint
- Tiny gripe
- Trivial gripe
- Trivial picking point
- Minor gripe
- It might be picked
- Little beef
- Minor peeve
- Trivial thing
- Little point to pick
- Minor point to pick
- Tiny insect egg
- Insignificant point
- Micromanager's excess
- Pickable point
- Small matter
- Minor matter
- Petty gripe
- Annual coll. hoops competition
- Coll. hoops tourney
- Minor issue
- Pedant's preoccupation
- Little gripe
- Picker's problem?
- Small quibble
- Tiny issue
- Word with pick or wit
- NCAA rival
- Oldest U.S. hoops contest
- College basketball tournament: Abbr.
- Hoops event since 1938
- NCAA relative
- Prefix for picker
- Start for wit or picker
- Annual basketball tourney
- Annual hoops event, for short
- Coll. hoops event
- College hoops grp.
- NCAA tourney rival
- Prefix for pick
- Cavil
- It has its finals at MSG
- NCAA alternative
- College hoops event
- Hoops tourney
- __-picking
- Annual hoops event: Abbr.
- Garden event each spring
- Mar. hoops tourney
- Annual sports event
- Annual college hoops contest
- Very minor point
- Pick preceder
- Trivial pursuit
- Lousy egg?
- Small grouse
- Trivial matter
- Small gripe
- Petty quibble
- Trivial quibble
- Beef that's not prime
- Little quibble
- Tiny carp
- ___-picking (petty)
- Annual MSG event
- Blockhead, to a Brit
- MSG hoops tourney
- Tournament won by CCNY in 1950
- Unit equal to one candela per square meter
- Fussy picker's target
- Picked thing
- Stage of insect life.
- Young insect.
- Egg of a parasite.
- Egg of an insect.
- Kind of wit.
- Parasite's egg.
- Slangy negative.
- Wee louse.
- Parasite egg.
- N. Y.'s basketball tourney.
- Basketball tourney: Abbr.
- Post season basketball tourney: Abbr.
- ___ pick (cavil)
- Pick or wit
- Kind of wit or pick
- N.Y.C. court tournament
- Kind of pick or wit
- Egg of a PArasitic insect
- Immature parasite
- Kind of picker or wit
- A basketball tourn.
- Annual court tourn.
- Basketball tourn. letters
- Coll. basketball contest
- Pick lead-in
- Pick or wit preceder
- Postseason coll. hoopsters' contest
- See 29 Across
- Wit or pick preceder
- Bryant or Loos
- Unit of luminous intensity
- Mar. tourney
- Annual hoops contest: Abbr.
- It's a little louse
- Annual sports event at 47-Across
- Baby buggy?
- Annual basketball event: Abbr.
- Annual hoops event, familiarly
- Small point to criticize
- Postseason contest, for short
- Annual B-ball championship
- Hoops competition, briefly
- N.Y.C. hoops contest
- Annual sports event: Abbr.
- Tiny point to argue
- Point to argue
- Young parasite
- Annual hoops contest, for short
- Small criticism, slangily
- Something that's picked
- Annual b-ball shootout
- Minor carp
- Something to be picked
- Have a ___ to pick
- Little complaint
- Niggling criticism
- Picked peeve
- Thing to be picked
- Tiny criticism to "pick"
- Annual coll. basketball contest
- Annual b-ball event
- Annual coll. hoops contest
- Baby beef?
- A picky person may pick one
- Pedantic quibble
- Thing that's picked
- It may be picked by the picky
- Minute beef
- Little issue to "pick"
- Picayune quibble
- Unimportant flaw
- Hairsplitter's objection
- Small carp
- ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event)
- Collegiate basketball competition, for short
- Critical point?
- Little carp
- Small criticism
- Something a pedant picks
- Little peeve
- Tiny peeve
- Annual coll. basketball event
- Little criticism
- Picky person's pick?
- Cause of some head-scratching
- Small fault
- Appropriate word found scrambled in "pedantic"
- Minor fault
- Something picked in an argument
- ___ to pick
- Very conservative player, in poker lingo
- --picker (quibbler)
- -- -picking
- Tiny criticism, slangily
- Bug egg
- -- to pick
- Larva of a parasite
- Small peeve
- Louse
- Thing picked by the picky
- ___-picker
- Hoop tourney
- Big Apple hoops tourney
- Tiny critique
- Small thing to pick
- Picky ones pick it
- Something the picky pick?
- College hoops tournament
- Pick opening
- Basketball tournament at MSG
- Picker's trivial concern?
- ___-picker (overly critical one)
- Critique to "pick"
- Petty critique
- Trivial critique
- Picky start to pick?
- Prefix with "picker"
- Little criticism to "pick"
- Insignificant complaint
- Trivial thing to pick
- Inconsequential flaw
- Small issue
- Spring coll. tournament
- ____ -pick
- Basketball tournament: abbr.
- Court competition, for short
- Picker's prey?
- Picker's intro
- Petty criticism
- Issue that one may 49-Down
- Petty criticism, slangily
- 69-Across complaint
- A meticulous person might pick one
- Criticism that's "picked"
- Minor criticism to "pick"
- Trifling complaint
- Trivial concern
- Pick a ___ (point out a minor shortcoming)
- Petty thing to pick
- Trivial issue
- Slim pick
- It's pickable
- Hoops event, for short
- Hoops org.
- Mar. hoops event
- Something picked by a persnickety person
- Small objection
- Lousy little thing!
- Thing to quibble over
- Oldest basketball tourney in the U.S.
- Oldest college basketball tourney, for short
- College basketball tourney, for short
- Annual NYC basketball tourney
- Trifling fault
- Piddling quibble
- Pedant's discovery
- Tight player, in poker
- Trifling quibble
- Petty picker's target
