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1. ____ monster (reptile)
5. “Chop chop!”
10. Clutch
14. Environmental sci.
15. Sandy shades
16. The frontal one is associated with spoken language
17. Useful thing
18. Collects, as benefits
19. Phonologically reduced expression of future intent
20. Library counter (and a site of this puzzle’s Norman Invasion)
23. In some ways
24. “Later!”
25. Simple shelter
26. Take to court
27. Toss
30. Haircare place
33. High level math
35. Roll (up), like a fiddlehead fern
36. One way to describe Demetrius and Helena’s relationship in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (and a site of this puzzle’s Norman Invasion)
39. ___ Reader (digital magazine with the slogan “Cure ignorance”)
40. Chat GPT-
41. Bitcoin, e.g.
42. Acronym for a famous reconstructed language
43. Sibilant sound
44. Explosive inits.
45. Test for a Ph.D. hopeful
46. Processes like the one exemplified in 19a.
51. Big Apple event that requires much stamina (and a site of this puzzle’s Norman Invasion)
55. Smell
56. [+_____ ] (featural description that normally applies to all vowels)
57. Nigerian language cluster with 31 million speakers
58. Latin name cognate with Greek “andro” (and maybe “Andrew”)
59. French feminine plural pronoun
60. V, in physics
61. Concludes
62. “What ___ thou?”
63. Ben and Jerry’s competitor
1. Totally understand
2. Prefix meaning “likeness”
3. Shower scrubber
4. Alveolar tap, in relation to both /t/ and /d/ in English
5. Solitary one
6. Pacific, for one
7. Brooklyn institute
8. ___-
9. Lombardy culinary specialty
10. [j], for one
11. Ancient empire of Italic languages
12. Many early PCs
13. Apex
21. Like [u] and [o]
22. “Science Guy” Bill
26. Some 35mm cameras, in brief
27. Moon goddess whose name is cognate with English “light”
28. Tolkien Black Speech utterers
29. “Ugh”
30. You might put stock in it
31. Oppositional prefix
32. “Stay in your ____!”
33. Corporate money managers, for short
34. Back, on a boat
35. Type of verb in the sentence: “They crowned William king”
37. Follows a step in the scientific method
38. High-IQ society
43. Sold-
44. Way to lay a contested matter
45. Greek sandwiches
46. Poet Dickinson
47. Rushes (to)
48. “Uh oh”
49. With honor
50. Little brats
51. Zero
52. Paradise
53. Surprisingly difficult and controversial thing to define in linguistics
54. Caffeine-
If you’ve completed the puzzle, you can submit your solution to the editors of SpecGram by August 1st, 2024. The correct solution and any solvers will be announced in the next issue.