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Obscure Linguistic Relics and Idiomatic Shadows
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Sudden syntactic break, disrupting forgotten idiomatic flow
  • 2. Sacred song or hymn embedded in old colloquial speech
  • 4. A switch in words representing something closely related, ancient art
  • 7. Ancient method of rewording speech figuratively and formally
  • 9. Involuntary repetition of words, a cryptic linguistic echo
  • 12. Roundabout expression mode, signifying complex idiomatic usage
  • 14. Naming idiom where words derive from historical figures or places
  • 18. Repetition of a word for emphasis, echoing ancient rhetoric
  • 19. Contradictory phrase once favored by ancient literary stylists
Down
  • 3. Linguistic truncation at a word's end, lost in modern use
  • 5. Inverted parallelism forming symmetrical idiomatic patterns
  • 6. Obsolete idiom symbolizing brief closure of perceptive insight
  • 8. Idiomatic trance-like state rooted in archaic medical metaphor
  • 10. Figure of speech where part denotes the whole, archaic usage
  • 11. Pertaining to characteristic phraseology of a forgotten tongue
  • 13. Acceptable substitution phrase masking harsher ancient realities
  • 15. Method of reasoning dialogue underpinning archaic linguistic idioms
  • 16. Gender-neutral reference once common in classical language idioms
  • 17. Wildly enthusiastic or irregular poetic expression, classical context

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