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Cryptic Linguistic Ironies and Wordplay
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Marks that split words but join meanings in syntactic jest
  • 2. Ancient Greek ‘human flourishing’—a pun’s perfect ecstatic state
  • 4. To blend words or concepts, like creating puns from fragments
  • 6. Lofty speech, ripe for grandiose puns and verbal irony
  • 8. The art that sometimes slips, creating accidental puns
  • 11. Word puzzles written within words—nested linguistic puns
  • 12. Substitution of a related term, a subtle verbal pun device
  • 14. Juxtaposing opposites that pun on contradictions
Down
  • 3. Repetition with a twist of meaning, punning in rhetoric
  • 5. A freshly minted word, often the playground of linguistic jesters
  • 7. Sound-alike words spawning countless puns and confusions
  • 9. Study of meaning, where puns find their double-edged blade
  • 10. A mirrored wordplay marvel that reads equivalently both ways
  • 13. One who studies behavior, punning on 'ethos' and logic perhaps
  • 15. Similarity in words ripe for playful linguistic ambiguity

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