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1. Tire Peter reformed, in the past
7. Extinct Italic language reworking air, numb
8. Pals’ cones reformulated with potentially unlimited membership (2 words)
10. Lingo spoken (between kappa and nu) by Worf (not Whorf)
11. Lack of transparency confusing @ “I copy.”
13. Hawk, or mixed-up Dardic language
15. To age again (with infix instead of prefix), as some parts of speech do
17. Niger-
19. The U.S., coming and going, contains limited company in depression on tongue (or in brain)
21. A small mountain, facing west, of verb inflection?
23. Return home? Not quite (awkward) native American language.
25. Indirect object case seen in appointment with four
27. Change of vowel comes back in virtual baby shower
29. Too right, returning for the main morpheme
30. Yes, overdose follows voiced palatal approximant
31. Eli president of LSA greater, but lacking energy and screwed up.
33. Even time may be quantified in semantic analysis
34. Light a pyre containing wayward semantic role for verbs of movement
35. After ten, backwards Arab loses head in theory of syntax
1. For kid, “why physical education?” is best example
2. French pupil wears a tee inside, as some words do over time.
3. Vital youth hides where Tuscan is spoken, officially
4. A rake coming back holds us hostage in Basque (according to the Basques)
5. Loud ring interrupted by Ontario briefly moving forward
6. Classic 55 contains indigenous variationist
9. Muskogean language was a backwards baby bird
12. Each losing head, cover the dare or non-
14. Osama Bin Ladin may be object of preposition, in short
16. Ring holds, is like some other tones
18. OE letter or sideways Mod. E. article?
20. English modal (past) seen in University with frigid surroundings
22. Haspelmath is right, in most important ways
23. To a greater degree, got top grade in determining syllable weight
24. Studied color perception with Berlin among Mandinka, Yoruba, Hausa
25. Germanic language empty dull bitch
26. Matrix loses numerals, keeps abbreviated phonetic feature
28. Be, oh, very quiet, like a German Sanskritologist
32. False but not false; briefly, a helping verb
Like other cryptic crosswords, the clues in this puzzle are not straightforward. Unlike most, however, this one focuses mainly on languages and linguistics. For instance, the clue for Zapotec might be “Oto-niCE TOP, A Zany), or many other combinations of puns, anagrams, or typographic quirks. Punctuation in clues is often misleading. Each clue contains both a definition (of sorts) and a more cryptic part, but these may come in any order.
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