Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Onomastic Labyrinth of Linguistic Identity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Pertaining to the structure or science of names
- 2. Informal epithet derived from a personal trait or event
- 4. Holding a title in name but without real power
- 5. Referring back to a previously mentioned name or noun
- 7. Conventional spelling system for writing names correctly
- 9. Recurrent name element signifying shared meaning
- 15. Study of a name’s hidden linguistic origin
- 17. Condition of different names sharing a same meaning
- 19. Fictitious name used by authors to conceal identity
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- 3. Treating a name or concept as a concrete object
- 6. Systematic naming within a field or discipline
- 8. Branch of linguistics studying personal and place names
- 10. Relating to names found in letter-writing tradition
- 11. Name substitution invoking a related entity or attribute
- 12. Name derived from one's father, encoded in lineage
- 13. Distinct identity hidden under same spelling, literary disguise
- 14. Phrase that renames a noun by placing beside it
- 16. Nameless or unidentified, often in literary context
- 18. Descriptive adjective attached to a proper name
- 20. Process of assuming an alternate name or identity