Dog Perhaps Bites Man One Picking Nits Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
	34%	10		Often played in a finger-picking or flat-picking style
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	32%	4		Man bites dog
	noun • information about recent and important events • information reported in a newspaper or news magazine • a program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary • informal information of any kind that is not previously known to someone • the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins

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The Guardian Cryptic25 Jul 2007	Down 21
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