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Cryptic Linguistic Ironies and Wordplay
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. An inkling of a pun, carved sharply on a linguistic plate
  • 2. Word pairs born from same roots with punning flair
  • 3. Hissing sounds that whisper punning secrets in phonetics
  • 4. Mirror's delight: a phrase reading the same both ways
  • 8. Linguistic fusion forming hybrids with pun-like essence
  • 9. Words split by sound’s twin but meanings diverge beyond
  • 11. Relationship where like words masquerade in lexicon's shadow
  • 17. Personal dialect where puns find unique soil to sprout
  • 18. Figurative device that bends meaning for punny effect
Down
  • 5. Study of sound patterns that words cleverly exploit
  • 6. Letter scramble yields a hidden, often witty, new identity
  • 7. Silent signals that twist meaning and halt the reader’s breath
  • 10. The science of meaning where words don a clever disguise
  • 12. Imaginative disguise where meaning and form play sly games
  • 13. Sound twins that may confound even the sharpest listener
  • 14. Poetic rebellion where sound echoes without matching pairs
  • 15. Newly minted word, ripe ground for innovative puns
  • 16. Deliberate vagueness spawning puns in linguistic shadowlands
  • 19. Pleasant sounds crafting subtle puns within melodic flow
  • 20. Borrowed phrase rebuilt to pun anew in foreign tongue

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