Referring Clues

• Square, updated
• Eggheady sort
• Taped eyeglasses wearer
• Square
• One socially challenged
• Dweeb
• Overly bookish sort
• Uncool sort
• Bookworm
• Disappointing date, maybe
• Hardly Mr. Cool
• Hardly a hipster
• Brainy, socially inept sort
• Social misfit
• Dilbert, e.g.
• Internet addict, perhaps
• Socially challenged person
• This may be hard to date
• Uncool one
• One who's socially clueless
• Unlikely candidate for prom king
• Overly brainy sort
• Person who gets picked on
• Propeller-head
• Unlikely class president
• Doofus-y sort
• Mr. Uncool
• Dateless sort
• Unpopular sort
• Bully's prey, often
• Bully's prey, traditionally
• Role in many teen flicks
• Unhip person
• Doofus
• Computer ___
• Dork
• One who's unhip
• Geeky sort
• Typical Rick Moranis film role
• Social bungler
• Mathlete, stereotypically
• Unlikely prom king
• Encyclopedia reader from A to Z, say
• Whom a bully may bully
• Bully's target, maybe
• Unlikely party animal
• "Happy Days" put-down
• Geeky guy
• Studious sort, and proud of it
• Geek
• Square type
• Guy with his nose always stuck in a book
• Jock's counterpart
• Revenge taker in a 1984 comedy
• Pocket protecter purchaser, perhaps
• Uncool character
• Propellerhead
• Misfit
• High school stereotype
• Campus misfit
• Pocket protector wearer, stereotypically
• Stereotypical computer programmer
• High school misfit
• Computer geek, e.g.
• Unhip type
• Word introduced by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo"
• Studious misfit
• Potsie, to the Fonz
• Nonsocial type
• Geek's cousin
• Hardly a BMOC
• Social washout
• Stereotypical pocket protector wearer
• Stereotypical computer hacker
• Pocket protector purchaser
• Computer geek, for instance
• Square figure?
• Pocket-protector sporter
• Totally unhip type
• Scholastic stereotype
• Stereotypical sci-fi fan
• Bookish type
• Unlikely prom king candidate
• Geekazoid
• Geeky type
• Wonk
• Society oddball
• Single-minded sort
• Socially inept type
• Bookworm, perhaps
• Steve Urkel on "Family Matters," e.g.
• In-crowd outcast
• Egghead
• Poindexter
• Unlikely escort for a prom queen
• One lacking social graces
• Bully's target, perhaps
• In-group outcast
• Weenie
• One who isn't in
• Brainiac's put-down
• Teen movie stereotype
• Societal klutz
• Obsessive type
• Drip
• Social oddball
• Computer ___
• Square sort
• Bookish type, often
• Uncool dude
• Excessive studier
• Bully's victim, often
• Bookish one
• Social outcast
• Common teen-movie persona
• Geeky one
• Uncool type
• Teen-movie persona
• Word coined by Dr. Seuss
• Steve Urkel, for one
• Bookworm, in stereotypes
• Inept individual
• Dweeb's pal
• Pocket protector wearer, in stereotypes
• Overly bookish type, stereotypically
• Stereotypical pocket-protector wearer
• Taped-eyeglasses wearer
• "Kick me" sign wearer, stereotypically
• High school outcast
• Bully's prey, perhaps
• Computer geek
• Pocket-protected one of stereotypes
• High school bookworm, stereotypically
• Uncool fellow, stereotypically
• Inept individual, stereotypically
• Social lightweight
• Social dud, stereotypically
• Guy with little chance at a supermodel, stereotypically
• One who ruins the curve, stereotypically
• Eggheady sort, stereotypically
• Uncool kid
• Modern misfit
• Dorky sort
• One who might celebrate Pi Day
• High-school put-down
• Antisocial sort
• Black-sock wearer in gym, stereotypically
• Overly academic type
• Jock's antithesis
• Dweeb's cousin
• Techie
• Square of a sort
• Many a character on "The Big Bang Theory"
• Intellectual sort
• Dweeby sort
• Pocket protector wearer, perhaps
• Teen comedy stereotype
• Overly techie type
• Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters," e.g.
• One who’s unhip
• Teased teen
• Bill-Gates-to-be type?
• Bully's target
• No sophisticate he
• Swirlie victim, perhaps
• In-crowd outsider
• Slashdot reader, according to its slogan
• Outcast, sometimes
• Creature in Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran the Zoo"
• One needing social work?
• Geeky sort found within this puzzle's four longest answers
• Bookish fellow
• Quiz bowl lover, say
• Anyone who can speak Klingon, e.g.
• Lover of brain games
• Nudnik
• Poindexter type
• Bookworm, stereotypically
• Uncool collegian
• Bart's friend Milhouse, e.g.
• Computer whiz
• Dull person
• Uncool bookworm
• Bookish sort
• Uncool fellow
• Teen outcast
• School geek
• 'Big Bang Theory' type
• Target of taunts
• Twerp
• Dweeb's kin
• Unhip sort
• Uncool student
• Nebbish
• Oddball of a sort
• Scholastic sort, perhaps
• Bully's target, often
• Stereotypically uncool collegian
• Uncool person
• Socially inept sort
• Dweeby type
• Stereotypical sporter of a pocket protector
• Stereotypical sporter of a pocket ptotector
• Square figure
• Pocket-protector sporter, stereotypically
• Twerp's cousin
• Square one
• Swot
• Bookish persona
• Brainy person, and proud of it
• Mathlete, perhaps
• Swot : Britain :: ___ : America
• One who might snort when he laughs
• Brain, maybe
• Stereotypical techie
• Role-playing game player, stereotypically
• Pi Day celebrant, perhaps
• Bookworm, maybe
• Bookish person
• Stereotypical Mensan
• Napoleon Dynamite, e.g.
• Socially awkward type
• Unlikely homecoming king
• Person who may be "adorkable"
• Napoleon Dynamite, for one
• Dweebish sort
• Many a Pi Day celebrant
• Unhip one
• Trekkie, to some
• Bookworm, scornfully
• Eggheady sort, in stereotypes
• Social greenhorn
• Filmdom's Napoleon Dynamite, for one
• With 77-Across, when combined into one word, national trivia championship, e.g.
• Many a comic book collector
• Techie, stereotypically
• One whose favorite website is Sporcle, say
• Techie type
• "The Big Bang Theory" type
• Hardly the Fonz
• Dweeb's partner?
• Book lover to the extreme
• Techie, traditionally
• Stereotypical computer whiz
• One scoring 100% on Sporcle quizzes, say
• Intellectual misfit
• Pi Day celebrant, stereotypically
• Almost any character on "The Big Bang Theory"
• High school bookworm
• Dorky type
• Dorkmeister
• Social goofball
• Egghead, in stereotypes
• The nutty professor, e.g.
• Socially maladroit sort
• Stereotypical Geek Squad employee
• Do 10 crosswords in a row, say, with "out"
• Single-minded expert
• Test fan, say
• Obsessive enthusiast
• Dweeby, bookish type
• Brainiac, stereotypically
• Small, fruity candy
• Geeky, bookish sort
• Jerry Lewis's "Nutty Professor" was an early example of one
• Geek's relative
• Stereotypical comic book fan
• Homework lover, maybe
• Societal goofball
• Socially awkward one
• Get excited about crosswords, say, with "out"
• Nonsocial studier
• Once uncool sort who's now sort of cool
• Common butt of jokes
• Comic-Con attendee
• Herd member?
• Socially clueless sort
• Nonsocial individual, in stereotypes
• Soft ball you can use indoors
• Future CEO
• No jock
• Pharrell Williams's rap group
• Bill Gates, snarkily
• Slashdot reader, maybe
• Sci-fi conventiongoer, stereotypically
• Revenge getter of film
• "___ alert!"
• One short on social skills
• Anyone able to rattle off more than 10 digits of pi, probably
• Technology enthusiast?
• Pencil pouched one
• Foolish or annoying person
• Someone boring (about computers?)
• Future billionaire, perhaps
• Teen comedy persona
• Martin Prince of "The Simpsons," e.g.
• Dungeons & Dragons fan, stereotypically
• Hardly Joe Cool
• Bully’s frequent target
• Dorky youth
• Anorak expert?
• Retired doctor's a space geek
• Possession of learner driver? 13 20 ___?
• Young Sheldon, e.g.
• Geek kin
• Put-down that nowadays may be worn as a badge of honor
• Stereotypically uncool person
• Dweeby fellow
• Techie, often
• Comic-Con attendee, stereotypically
• Awkward brainiac type
• Herd member?
• Adorkable one
• U-turn from jock
• One probably not with the jocks at the lunch table
• Uncool one who lately is sort of cool
• Lewis's nutty professor, perhaps
• Comic book reader, stereotypically
• Techie stereotype
• Urkel, for one
• Mathlete, not an athlete
• Head-buried-in-books type
• Teen comedy stock character
• Word reportedly coined in Seuss' "If I Ran the Zoo"
• One may celebrate Pi Day
• Sheldon Cooper, e.g.
• Wonkish sort
• Obsessive hobbyist
• Trivia night champion, perhaps
• Stereotypical Pi Day celebrant
• Socially challenged one, often
• Buff to an excessive extent
• Superbrainy sort
• Spend all weekend solving crosswords, say, with "out"
• Extreme aficionado
• Obsessive fan
• Professor Frink on “The Simpsons,” e.g.
• Unlikely prom king or queen
• One may enjoy studying
• Stereotypical coder
• Crossword fanatic, perhaps
• Stereotypical gamer
• Stereotypical egghead
• Stereotypical bookworm
• Type of person known for being bookish
• Geek (out)
• Brainy sort
• Brainy introvert
• One who knows all the answers, maybe
• Peter Parker, e.g.
• Black ___ Problems (pop culture website)
• He's stupid, taking the north-east road
• Robert Carradine role
• ___ Nation (nickname for Stanford)
• Study too much, with "out"
• Crossword maker, e.g.
• Stereotypical mathlete
• Stereotypical trivia whiz
• One may be a mathlete
• Homework lover, say
• Stereotypical Comic-Con attendee
• "Lemon" band
• Stereotypical tech fanatic
• Part of the portmanteau "Blerd"
• One who's able to rattle off digits of pi, perhaps
• Lead-in to core or fest
• Socially inept, bookish stereotype
• "Jobs vs. Gates: The Hippie and the ___" (2015 TV movie)
• Sporcle enthusiast, perhaps
• Egghead relative
• Trivia enthusiast, perhaps
• Emoji with thick-rimmed glasses
• Member of a Stanford "Nation"
• Theater ___ (someone who knows all the words to "Hamilton," maybe)
• Fluent speaker of Elvish, say
• Peter Parker in "Spider-Man," for one
• Knowledgeable type
• Brainy oddball
• Chidi from "The Good Place," for example
• Brainy type
• Enthusiast, colloquially
• Self-description for a D&D enthusiast, maybe
• ___ bar (place for trivia nights or retro gaming)
• Geek-adjacent person
• Trivia lover, maybe
• Carlton Banks, for example
• Knowledgeable sort
• Brainy person
• Person who loves to geek out
• Person who might do the Vulcan salute
• Niche enthusiast
• Many a sci-fi fan, stereotypically
• Word ___ (rhyming nickname for a crossword lover)
• Many a Comic-Con attendee
• Con attendee
• Chess enthusiast, perhaps
• Enthusiast
• One with deep knowledge of a subject
• Passionately discuss minutiae, with "out"
• Mathlete, to some
• Stereotypical "The Big Bang Theory" character
• Square one?
• Adorkable person
• Geek chic fan, maybe
• Brainiac
• Bite on a rope or cluster
• Bookish type, stereotypically
• He's geeky, taking the north-east road