Historical clue formulations

• Second Freudian stage — 2026-09-25
• Obsessively oriented — 2026-08-27
• Picky, picky, picky — 2026-08-26
• Excessively uptight — 2026-07-26
• Fussbudgety, say — 2026-05-28
• Particularly particular — 2025-12-14
• Very, very particular — 2025-11-20
• Super-uptight — 2025-10-20
• Way too uptight — 2025-09-15
• Tending to get fixated, say — 2025-05-03
• Fussbudgety — 2025-03-04
• Overly fastidious — 2024-12-06
• Fastidious to a fault — 2024-09-30
• Beyond uptight — 2024-09-16
• Ultrafastidious — 2024-06-19
• Fastidious to a fault — 2024-06-03
• Obsessive to a fault — 2024-04-01
• Overly meticulous — 2023-10-31
• Painfully particular — 2023-06-27
• ___ stage (concept in psychosexual development) — 2023-02-11
• Fastidious to a fault — 2023-02-02
• Meticulous to a fault — 2022-10-25
• Particularly particular — 2022-10-19
• Fussy in the extreme — 2022-05-04
• Obsessive about little details — 2022-04-11
• ___-retentive — 2021-12-20
• Seriously uptight — 2021-09-28
• Overly fussy, informally — 2021-06-09
• Overly fussy, say — 2020-08-31
• Compulsively particular, say — 2020-08-18
• Fussy to excess — 2019-09-24
• Fastidious to a fault — 2019-08-21
• Highly persnickety — 2019-03-15
• Obsessive about details — 2019-02-26
• Super-uptight — 2019-02-21
• Obsessive to a fault — 2019-01-28
• Beyond stuffy — 2018-06-22
• Overly fussy — 2018-06-06
• Fussy to a fault — 2018-03-28
• Hypermeticulous — 2017-09-21
• Like a control freak — 2017-06-30
• Annoyingly focused — 2017-06-27
• Overly fussy — 2017-05-07
• Way too uptight — 2017-01-10
• 39-Across, informally — 2016-11-19
• Meticulous to a fault — 2016-10-06
• Like a neat freak — 2016-07-17
• ___-retentive — 2016-06-27
• Rigidly uptight — 2015-12-14
• Like a control freak — 2015-11-04