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Rasmus Rask Zigzag Puzzle XX

by Lila Rosa Grau

This is the twentieth Rasmus Rask puzzle, devoted to the original Mr. Charming Scandinavian Linguist. The puzzle is similar to a crossword puzzle, in that there is a grid for filling in words and phrases, and clues for the ACROSS and DOWN directions. However, all the squares in a Rasmus Rask puzzle are filled with letters, and the answers to the clues may (but are not required to) overlap. Clues for a particular row or column are given together, in the order they appear in the grid. No indication of the amount of overlap between clues is given. Letters spelling out RASMUS RASK zigzag down the grid to provide a framework for filling in the answers.

The solution will be given later in this issue.

0  1  2  3  4 R 5  6  7  8  9 
1              A            
2           S               
3              M            
4           U               
5              S            
6           R               
7              A            
8           S               
9              K            
Across
0
• In motion, or how one feels after too much caffeine and syntax.

• A prefix meaning two, both, halved, or doubled.

• A universal port that still takes three tries to plug in.

1
• Peirce’s state of potentiality that exists before concrete manifestation.
2
• A US federal agency one letter away from a phonetician’s favorite alphabet.

• One of those r-less words that pop into existence from words like burst or curse or horse.

• An enticement or a fisherman’s tool.

3
• To praise highly.

• The written form of both dental fricatives that non-native speakers of English love to hate.

• The lesson at the end.

4
• A suffix for a belief system.

• Abbreviation for the home of a very distinct /aɪ/ diphthong.

• A phone connection or a speech act involving a name.

5
• A winter layer that forms a minimal voicing pair with a farm animal.

• 🐂💩 (abbr.).

• ♥︎, ♠︎, ♣︎, or ♥︎️.

• Et __?

6
• The status of a deleted subject in an imperative sentence.
7
• Half a gonad.

• 리, or one of the smallest US states.

• 𐪒, 𐩲, or 𐤏.

• Romance “yes”.

8
• Colorless green things that sleep furiously.

• A three-vowel promise of debt.

• The other indefinite article in English.

9
• The first note of a scale or the liquid that saves a gin.

• A hypocorism for your friends.
Down
0
• Reduplicated it could be a synonym of Mean Boulevard (abbr.).

• An allophone, allograph, or allomorph, abstractly.

1
• A modest intake of liquid.

• Preverb, particle, or postposition (abbr.).

• Much-talked-about in Nezahualcóyotl or Ñemby.

2
• The psychological blow of a dangling participle.

• To inflame the passions of.

3
• The possessive that famously refuses an apostrophe.

• Type of verb that describes a condition rather than an action.

• Subtropical felt hat.

4
• To increase one’s speech rate beyond a listener’s parsing limit.

• Thinking you can map every human language to a single universal grammar on the first try.

• Computing architecture that sounds like a dangerous gamble.
5
• A term of endearment with an elided final consonant.

• Multiple handwritten drafts (abbr.).

• A geographical acronym available at many levels—the city of San Antonio, the country of Saudi Arabic, the continent of South America.

• “Yours truly is aware” radically shortened in txtese.

6
• The “doing” part of saying.
7
• The face of software.

• The mythological Hogg sister.

• An atom with a charge and a suffix for nominalization.

• Ν or ν.

• One of the indefinite articles in English.

8
• A common variable name for a string or a cluster that makes phonotactics interesting.

• The female voice type that lives in the land of low-mid frequencies.

• An app’s contract or the granpappy of all Star Trek shows (abbr.).

• Samuel or Samantha, familiarly.

9
• Probably the most shortened word of farewell in English.

• A high-amplitude, unmodulated vocalization.

• Gladiatorial training schools.

• An intransitive verb of eating.

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