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1. Demon, large, followed by caricature with no vehicle, summoned by flouting maxims
5. General Motors has edge, formulated law for Germanic shifts
9. Usual suspect traded second for five in vocal tract
11. “Overdose on immediate constituents” describing lyric poems
15. A pun’s at lion’s, every other theorist of performativity
16. A curl I untwisted, e.g. Finno-
17. Sonority is losing? Or
18. In the morning, I’ve got a goal
20. Speech act sick? I count zero, oddly
23. Lehmann and Vennemann, in either order, contain miraculous sustenance
24. A pimple, in-grown, covered by palatization
25. European Society for the Study of English to be in Latin?
28. Fieldworkers and Bible translators briefly stayed in line, to start with
29. Archaism concealed where L.I. commuters congregate
31. Greeting contains independent descendant of Sanskrit
32. Effect of movement seen in transitive expert
34. Hindu exercises for body and mind developed long ago, yes, and came west
35. Mother has, for example, a thousand squared
38. Does she take LING? In a roundabout way, spoken worldwide
41. Garment wrapped around you is what verb needs
42. By way of Italian road
43. In Latin, I have fed, (it’s French, to him!)
45. Overbearing, burying head of predicate, typically
47. Very old inner-
48. Ferdinand is weird: USA’s certain
52. About not right: It was the structure of the sentence that confused me, e.g.
53. Acoustic research institute named for Onassis
54. French woman (in short) has me acting without words
57. How often Romaji puts conjunction in negation
58. Rite misperformed on Roman road
59. Ironic-
60. /s/, e.g., crazy, following car, like Goldsmith’s theory of phonology
1. Inuit language institute covers UK, but loses south and east
2. Soft large Russian river or mountain
3. Slanty type of Indo-
4. After air conditioning and love, U.S. spasms with sound
6. Visit NE, train, run wild with no object
7. Small shopping center unfinished, or a pair of them?
8. Loud playing card underlies theory of politeness
12. French recognize right to “Drop it!” (not soft)
13. One year in Spain to produce Italian adjectival suffix?
14. Australian expert on Germanic languages found straying, covered in phenylcarbinol
19. Indonesian/
21. Optimality, phonology, English: curriculum, initially, for oil-
22. Esperanto to use eponymous submachine gun
23. Males grow old in French household
26. ASL-
27. Semiotic whole is no good, briefly, no good at all
29. Synonym told orally, moved quickly before voiced velar
30. Large Miss Woodhouse stores semantic and syntactic information
33. Samizdat I’ve read contains case indicating indirect object
36. Anthony says PIE had word for this, after Wh-loss: a type of fish
37. Wildebeest discovered hiding in (or perhaps staffing) Nunberg’s office
39. Honorific title used in Osiris’s time?
40. You all bitch, you say, and laugh, not necessarily in that order, but regularly
41. A Rhode Island celebrity founded LINGUIST list
44. Shame contains louse, tensed
45. Bad clue with no end found in van, in Star Trek language
46. Headless horse called a rabbit “gavagai”
49. An A’s held back, like your mens should be
50. Your duvet covers Pakistani
51. Out-
54. Bad prefix for an unmarried woman, I’d say
55. Girl’s nickname useful for functional neuroimaging
56. Liberman has awkward pause
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.
If you can complete (or make a good effort on) the crossword and send your solutions to the editors of SpecGram by October 15th, 2016, you could win some SpecGram merch.* The correct solution and winners, if any, will be announced in the November issue of Speculative Grammarian.
The solution to last month’s puzzle, Mix & Match §, are provided here. The nine 9-letter words from the first puzzle are: tweezered, houyhnhnm, expletory, schmaltzy, abecedary, unmagical, ruination, unsatisfy, semicomic; and the three additional words are: thesaurus, rhotacism, euphemism. For the second puzzle, the nine words are: syllabify, indicator, imperfect, pictogram, encephala, prothetic, harmonize, antinovel, newlyweds; and the three additional words are: acrophony, iterative, focalized. Each of the puzzlemeisters below will receive some moderately desirable SpecGram merch:
Norman Gray • Sara Catlin • Thorsten Schröter
In addition, the following puzzlers have achieved the everlasting glory that comes with an honorable mention:
Gretchen McCulloch • Daniel Swanson • Keith Slater
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