Referring Clues

• Annual basketball event: Abbr.
• Annual hoops event, familiarly
• Something to pick
• Small point to criticize
• Tiny carp?
• Postseason contest, for short
• Oldest U.S. hoops contest
• It may be picked
• Critic's pick?
• N.Y.C. hoops contest
• Hoops competition, briefly
• Annual B-ball championship
• Trivial pursuit
• Coll. hoops competition
• Annual sports event: Abbr.
• Louse-to-be
• Tiny point to argue
• Young parasite
• Lousy egg?
• Point to argue
• Small criticism, slangily
• Something that's picked
• Tiny criticism
• Annual hoops contest, for short
• Annual b-ball shootout
• Minor objection
• Link
• Minor carp
• Little louse
• Insect egg
• Something to be picked
• Niggling criticism
• Thing to be picked
• Tiny criticism to "pick"
• Picked peeve
• Have a ___ to pick
• Petty peeve
• Little complaint
• Annual coll. basketball contest
• Annual coll. basketball competition
• Small beef
• ___-picking (petty criticism)
• What a picky person may pick
• Coll. basketball tourney
• Louse egg
• Future louse
• Carper's pick?
• Coll. cagers' contest
• Oft-picked item
• Lousy pick?
• Critic's pick
• Oft-picked thing
• NCAA basketball tournament competitor
• Prelude to pick
• One of the "pickings" hidden in five puzzle answers
• It can be picked
• Trivial detail
• Kind of picker
• College hoops contest since 1938 (abbr.)
• Prelude to pick?
• Small point
• Trivial criticism
• Small complaint
• Point to pick
• Trivial point
• Quibble
• Cavil
• Unit equal to one candela per square meter
• Petty complaint
• Small gripe
• Fussy picker's target
• Small point to pick
• Young louse
• Start to pick?
• Dunderhead, in Dover
• Picked beef?
• Tiny insect
• It's hardly worth picking
• "Picked" picayune point
• Complaint that's "picked"
• Picker lead-in
• Wit and pick lead-in
• Trivial point to pick
• Minor criticism
• Garden event each spring
• Mar. hoops tourney
• Annual sports event
• Annual basketball tourney
• Tiny complaint
• Egg of a parasitic insect
• Picker's intro
• "Wit" and "pick" lead-in
• Picker's prey?
• Little beef
• Thing to pick
• ___-picker (overly critical one)
• Niggling detail
• Little thing to pick
• Picky problem
• Critic’s pick
• Annual roundball competition (abbr.)
• Picker's point
• Small carp
• Louse to be
• Annual college hoops contest
• Baby beef?
• Annual b-ball event
• Tiny beef
• Trivial complaint
• Critic's pick
• Annual coll. hoops contest
• Wit preceder
• Insignificant detail
• Wit's starter
• A picky person may pick one
• Annual B-ball tourney
• Detail to pick?
• Baby louse
• Larva of a parasite
• ___ to pick
• Tiny peeve
• Bug egg
• Tiny criticism, slangily
• Parasite egg
• ___ -picking
• ___picker (quibbler)
• Luminance unit
• Kind of wit or pick?
• Pedantic quibble
• Thing that's picked
• Thing picked by a quibbler?
• Bit of carping
• Tiny louse
• Piddling point to pick
• Louse's egg
• Annual hoops event, for short
• "Picked" complaint
• Trivial picking point
• Tiny gripe
• Very minor point
• Picayune point to pick
• Putative louse
• Small grouse
• With picking, trivial fault-finding
• Point trivially picked
• Minor complaint
• Trifling fault
• Something small to pick
• Trivial gripe
• It may be picked by the picky
• Handpicked thing
• Little peeve
• Minor imperfection
• Minute beef
• ___ relude to "pick"
• Start for "wit" or "picker"
• Picker's issue
• Basketball tournament (abbr.)
• Picayune quibble
• Small peeve
• Trivial objection
• Dunderhead
• Little issue to "pick"
• Unimportant flaw
• Minor gripe
• Baby bug
• Picker's trivial concern?
• March hoops tourney
• ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event)
• Minor peeve
• Hairsplitter's objection
• Trivial thing
• Spring coll. tournament
• It might be picked
• Petty criticism
• Little point to pick
• Issue that one may 49-Down
• Minor point to pick
• Young insect
• Young bug
• Louse baby
• Kind of wit?
• Parasite's egg
• Egg of a louse
• Charlie's unit of luminance
• Even an idiot has no love lost for it
• Silly fellow lacking wit
• Trivial fault
• Hair louse
• Fool any number with it
• Postseason hoops competition, for short
• Head louse egg
• Tiny insect egg
• Silly-billy in southern Italy
• College basketball tourney: Abbr.
• Sponsor of a college basketball tourney that competes with March Madness: Abbr.
• Minor issue
• Gripe that's picked
• Pick a ___ (find something small to criticize)
• ___ Season Tip-Off (annual basketball tournament)
• Critic's pick?
• Prefix with "picker"
• Picky start to pick?
• Picayune thing to pick
• Petty criticism, slangily
• 69-Across complaint
• The egg of a louse
• Insignificant point
• Minor quibble
• Small matter
• Something a pedant picks
• Critical point?
• Collegiate basketball competition, for short
• Pickable point
• Little carp
• Small criticism
• Micromanager's excess
• Trivial matter
• A meticulous person might pick one
• Louse larva
• Little criticism to "pick"
• Trifling quibble
• "Pick" lead-in
• Petty quibble
• Trivial quibble
• Little criticism
• Tight player, in poker
• Little quibble
• Pedant’s discovery
• Lousy egg?
• Not a witty type!
• Petty gripe
• Minor matter
• Trivial concern
• Trifling complaint
• Insignificant complaint
• Picky person's pick?
• Critique to "pick"
• Annual coll. basketball event
• Trivial critique
• Thing for a critic to pick
• Coll. hoops tourney
• Annual coll. hoops competition
• Criticism that's "picked"
• Small fault
• Minor criticism to "pick"
• Cause of some head-scratching
• Pick a ___ (point out a minor shortcoming)
• Small critique
• Something picked in an argument
• Minor fault
• Appropriate word found scrambled in "pedantic"
• Small problem
• Pedant's preoccupation
• Tiny issue
• Little gripe
• Trivial issue
• Picker's problem?
• Very conservative player, in poker lingo
• Petty thing to pick
• Criticism to "pick"
• Small quibble
• Teeny critique
• A persnickety person might pick it
• Section of a curriculum
• Small sticking point
• Complaint hardly worth mentioning