Answer:

nerd

Answer	Crossword Clue
NERD	Lead-in to core or fest
NERD	Brainy sort
NERD	Superbrainy sort

NERD	Wonkish sort
NERD	One probably not with the jocks at the lunch table
NERD	Put-down that nowadays may be worn as a badge of honor
NERD	Jock's antithesis
NERD	Socially maladroit sort
NERD	Dorkmeister
NERD	Geek
NERD	Hardly Mr. Cool

NERD	Stereotypical Mensan
NERD	Weenie
NERD	Stereotypical techie
NERD	Swot : Britain :: ... : America
NERD	Square figure
NERD	Unlikely prom king
NERD	Uncool sort
NERD	Dweeb

NERD	Poindexter type
NERD	Lover of brain games
NERD	Square type
NERD	Dweeby sort
NERD	High-school put-down
NERD	One who might celebrate Pi Day
NERD	Dorky sort
NERD	Brainiac's put-down

NERD	Jock's counterpart
NERD	Square
NERD	Guy with his nose always stuck in a book
NERD	Social misfit
NERD	Unlikely party animal
NERD	Geeky guy
NERD	Eggheady sort
NERD	Whom a bully may bully

NERD	Overly bookish sort
NERD	Geeky sort
NERD	Typical Rick Moranis film role
NERD	Social bungler
NERD	Dork