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Other crossword clues for answer "PURIST"

PURIST
Stickler for perfection
Follows the rules to the letter
Strict adherent
One intolerant of deviation
One insistent on perfection
One who does things by the book
Stickler
Strict observer
One resistant to change
Stickler for correctness
Stickler for tradition
Advocate of nicety in language.
Doctrinaire.
Oversolicitous one.
Strict observer of precise usage.
One oversolicitous about use of language.
Perfectionist.
Finicky grammarian
Hidebound grammarian
Rigid grammarian
Stickler re diction, etc.
Strict traditionalist
Noncompromiser
Precisionist
Uncompromising sort
One unlikely to compromise
Type not susceptible to compromise
Strict grammarian
Punctilious professor, e.g.
Person for whom it's all or nothing
She's picky
Stickler on usage
Rigorous linguist
One unlikely to bend the rules