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1. Shine brightly, after cluster reduction
5. Against, in Southern US English
9. When England became Francophone, plus CCCXXXVI
14. Prefix with “syllabic”
15. Gov. and Bind. is also known as ___ and Par. (anagram)
16. Thin sheets of gold
17. Lexical creation
19. Once more
20. Love, in Italy
21. Yip, after apocope
23. Pre-nasalized feline?
24. Antonym of antonym
26. Ruth’s sister-
28. English dialectal form filling a gap in the nominative pronoun paradigm
30. Latin cognate to पितृ and πατήρ (genitive case)
33. Taxis
36. Succulent plant that can treat burns
38. Enough vowels for English orthographic needs
39. Yoko
40. Bybee: The Evolution of _____
42. Compass heading
43. Vocative addressed to liquid precipitation (anagram)
45. Cried
46. Subcutaneous lump containing liquid
47. He described voicing of proto-
49. Saudi currency
51. Dialectal Pig Latin: ou-ya ake-ta e-tha igh-ha ___
53. Neogrammarian sound change is always ___ and without 64 across
57. Sustained canine cry
59. Between black and white, after orthographic semivowels are replaced with vowels
61. ___ Shimbun
62. Heavenly hunter
64. Neogrammarian sound change is always 53 across and without ___
66. Niger-
67. Paternal kinship term’s palindromic partner
68. Tools for unlocking, after metathesis of first two graphemes
69. Powerful counselors in pre-
70. ___-
71. Author of 1811 Introduction to the Grammar of the Icelandic and other Ancient Northern Languages
1. Desires or enthusiasm, in Spain
2. Foe, after regressive consonant harmonization
3. Above, in Scots
4. Linguists who investigated sociolinguistic aspects of linguistic change
5. ISO 639-3 abbrev. for Old English
6. Germanic sound shift, e.g. bʰ → b → p → ɸ
7. ___ facto
8. Semantic inversion: Spanish masculine form < Latin nimius ‘excessive’
9. Graduate degree in visual arts (acronym)
10. Type of word necessary for reconstruction
11. Temporal focus of historical linguistics
12. ___ Peiros, reconstructor of Proto-
13. Third singular copula, contracted negation
18. Wine, combining form
22. Van Valin’s phonological framework? (acronym)
25. ___ ___ My Sunshine, after deletion of non-
27. Minimal ___
29. Nephew of Théoden of Rohan
31. Maddieson, Mackenzie and Roberts
32. Winter bird feeder item
33. Hair style, after applying the law described in 47 across (ignore stress)
34. Yue-
35. With 44 down, the two major confounders of reconstruction
37. Type of data preferred by experimentalists
40. Form likely to replace went, after the application of 44 down
41.
Title of Howard Pyle work:
Sir Kay breaketh his sword ____ ____ Tournament
44. With 35 down, the two major confounders of reconstruction
46. Likely result of vowel syncope
48. Van Valin’s grammatical framework (acronym)
50. May be left when an argument is fronted (with determiner)
52. Type of diffusion found, e.g., in a Sprachbund
54. First terrestrial creature to orbit Earth
55. Nautical cries
56. Skating places, after metathesis of final two phonemes
57. Hans Henrich
58. He prays, in Portugal
60. Large-
63. Lengthy refusal?
65. Tour de France drug (acronym)
1 With grateful thanks to Tim Pulju and Trey Jones, who as usual saved the rest of you from the worst excesses of my ineptitude.
If you can complete the crossword and send your solutions to the editors of SpecGram by February 15th, 2013, you could win a SpecGram magnet. The correct solution and winners, if any, will be announced in the March issue of Speculative Grammarian.
The answers to last month’s “Panama Guzzler” Anagram Puzzle (based on “The Nasal Tone: An Honest Tale”) are below.
Early solution submissions seemed to indicate that this was a puzzle best suited for computational linguists, but the humans made a late rally and nearly evened the score. Below are the human and non-
Adam Bernard & findanag.pl
• Philip Newton & clxvi.2.09.plx
• Tanjam Jacobson
Honorable mention to human Bryan Allen for an approximately 97.058823529% correct solution, and thanks to Trey Jones & guzzler.pl for help in verifying the original puzzle and solution.