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SpecGrammatical Crossword

by Trey Jones

Presented here to amuse you for a short spell, is a new crossword puzzle, the graphical form of which is based on a logo well known to our readers. The logical form of the puzzle is dictated by tradition. The content inspired, as much as possible, by the study of languages and linguistics. Enjoy.

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1. A parasitic ___ is not something you can appreciate without fully understanding.
4. Fixer ___ (reduplicated for emphasis)
11. Egyptian sun god
12. Snake’s sibilant sound
15. Lips, tongue, and throat are speech ___
16. Roman letter ultimately derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph
17. A very old linguist?
19. 1000 for Romans
20. SpecGram’s other specialty
21. You for texters and chatters
22. A doctor who is not a PhD
24. ___ < OE wīpian, perhaps akin to L vibrāre
25. Tick’s companion
29. French friend
31. Whoa, I know kung ___!
32. Physical Education > Phys Ed > ___
33. What annoyingly small annoying dogs do to annoy you
35. Roman letter derived from the Phoenician letter
36. Language of Newton’s Principia Mathematica (abbrev.)
38. ___ Man, n., does everything a ~ can!
41. Un-effing-believably cool affix type
44. Common attribute of consonants /dðlnrɹɾsʃtθzʒ/
45. A translation borrowing
47. an Austronesian language spoken in southern Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
48. Another name for Colorado River language
49. ___-47 assault rifle
50. Morse code dot-dot-dash
51. Letter represented by the signal flag
52. Roman construction techniques incertum, reticulatum, quadratum, latericium, spicatum, etc.
54. Norse trickster
56. Ego
57. IPA for voiceless bilabial fricative
58. Best. Dictionary. Ever.
59. Anglo-Saxon alternative to derivative of Greek θρόμβος
61. First person singular copula
63. Homonym of NY, Boston, or Philadelphia second person plural pronoun
65. A loss of voice; a palsy of the tongue; dumbness; catalepsy (Webster’s 1828)
67. With 68 down, a Eureka-like interjection
69. Semaphore letter represented by
70. Immeasurably long periods of time (var.)
71. Speakers of Saami languages
74. Diminutive suffix indicating a younger, smaller, or inferior version of something
75. Letter represented by ASL
76. Roman 50
77. Inv. of condense
79. The “A” in “A/S/L” in Chat-room-ese
80. Letter represented by Braille
81. Romanian for eight
83. Albanian for cloud
85. Amuzgo for red
86. The study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic units
92. Anglo-Saxon (abbrev.)
93. Derogatory diminutive for the people of the USSR
94. Latin analog of Greek τ
95. Opp. of left
96. Not so humble internet acronym
97. Non-Braille bumps
98. Replacement for Futhorc letter
99. Fabricated earlier
102. Extinction boundary 65 m.y.a.
103. Roman 9
104. The semantic relation of being subordinate
106. Explosive TLA
1  2  3                       4  5  6  7  8  9  10 
11                12  13  14         15                                    
16         17                       18                                           
19         20                                                                 21 
22  23         24                              25  26  27  28        
29         30         31                32                33         34 
35         36  37         38  39                40                      
41  42                43         44                                           
45                              46         47                48               
49                50         51         52         53                      
54         55                56         57                                    
       58                       59  60                       61  62        
              63         64         65                66                      
67  68                69         70                                           
71         72  73                74                              75        
76         77                78         79                       80        
81  82                       83  84                       85               
86                87  88                89  90  91                      
92                93                                                          94 
95                96                       97                              98 
99         100                       101         102                103        
104                                            105                106               

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1. Linguistically felicitous
2. Type of basaltic lava flow favored by desperate Scrabble players
3. Letter corresponding to the Hebrew letter פ in the Latin alphabet
4. 22nd letter of the Slovene alphabet
5. Many-tongued linguist: ___glot
6. Can be dropped in several Romance lgs
7. Rare case of core vocabulary replacement in English
8. Another name for the Dhanwar lg
9. Missing from _o_a__ou_ceme_t
10. NOPQ…
12. Namesake of the 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑
13. Lady Astor: “___ , ___ you were my husband, I would give you poison.” Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”
14. What you do to gravy with a biscuit
17. Head-first adpositional phrase (abbrev.)
18. ___ to a Grecian Urn
23. D&D game runner
25. Vanishingly rare syllabic nucleus, but reported by Wells (1982) in [bræıæʊn] for brown in Mississippi
26. Latin letter derived from proto-semitic
27. Any of several swan-doomed Greek mythological figures
28. Spanish for carat (var.)
30. Functional head containing auxiliaries and/or tense and/or agreement features (archaic)
32. A figure of speech in which an imaginary person is represented as speaking
34. Asturian contraction meaning by means of
37. /r/s and /l/s
39. Indirect current?
40. One of Jupiter’s moons
      
42. Gavial (not gavagai!)
43. Former currency of Vietnam
46. Pertaining to an analysis from the perspective within the system being studied
53. A Dutch onion or a Greenlandic husband
55. Tocharian B cow
60. An unclassified language of Chad, possibly an isolate
61. Resp. to a ques.
62. First person singular genitive
64. Catalan name for the letter ‘s’
66. One of the members of the Andamanese language family
67. Also known as a paramorph in mineralogy; or, a linguistics term
68. See 67 Across
72. Cognate of the name بطرس in Czech
73. 1015 volts (abbrev.)
75. The tip of the tongue
78. The study of rhythm, intonation, and stress
82. Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns
84. One of the longest words with only one of these is hydroxydehydrocorticosterone
85. The dictionary form of a word
87. Spanish cousin
88. Speaker of Proto-World?
89. Ethnologue code for Yakan
90. Hypocoristic for Nicholas?
91. Armenian վրան
94. To write like y r u l8 4 lx class?
100. A kind of vinyl record
101. Long dash—
103. Preposition
105. IPA symbol for close front rounded vowel,
106. The 18th letter in the Italian alphabet
   

  L O C   A G E   T I C  
A I N U   P P S   A D R A
B L A B   A S P   L E A K
S U S A N   G E R M A N S
      N O M   R O Y      
M A L A Y A L A M   P A M
P L O S   N A N   G I L A
I T S   A G U T A Y N E N
      R R G   O C P      
B A L O C H I   C S A T O
A N I M   U P A   I S O N
T I K A   E R G   E I R E
  P E N   R A T   S A Y  

If you can complete the crossword and send your solutions to the editors of SpecGram by March 15th, 2010, you could win a SpecGram magnet of your choice. The correct solution and winners, if any, will be announced in an upcoming issue of Speculative Grammarian.

The solution to December’s Crossword, by Keith Slater, is provided at right. It was also provided by each of the puzzlers (or team of puzzlers) below. Each will receive a SpecGram magnet of their choice.

Congratulations to the winners!

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