Exact Description Of A Martinet Crossword Clue

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	adjective • characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint adjective satellite • rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard • (of rules) stringently enforced • incapable of compromise or flexibility • severe and unremitting in making demands
	30%	14		Act of making a metaphorical description into a factual description
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	26%	5		Like a martinet
	noun • the rear part of a ship • United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920) • the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on adjective satellite • of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect • not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty • severe and unremitting in making demands • severely simple

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The Guardian Cryptic15 Sep 2006	Down 20
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