Related Clues:

• Nitpicking editor to be critical about and irritate
• Editor brought in to criticize essay for excessive formality
• Be curious about Dante shaken by dogmatism!
• Strict or rigorous formality
• Still room to retain education of a formal nature
• Soldier engaging in exercises with dull precision
• Exercises and changes before attempt at display of learning
• Unnecessary formality
• Editor brought in to criticise essay for dogmatism
• Nitpicking editor shut in small room
• Over-attention to detail
• Excessive concern with minor rules
• Criticise essay in which journalist's shown dogmatism
• Den party (anag.)
• Still room to absorb education that's hair-splitting