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The Art of Spelling

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A shiny surface or a brief note explaining a difficult word (5)
An investigation into the dusty, historical roots of our vocabulary (9)
A tiny curve that cuts a vowel's performance short (5)
The daunting art of trapping and defining every word in a heavy book (12)
The core of a plant that supports prefixes and suffixes alike (4)
What anxious competitors do on stage while trying to recall if it is I before E (4)
The absolute peak of orthographic achievement (4)
Mysterious ancient scratch mark that carries a magical curse or a phonetic sound (4)
A slip of the finger that turns a hero into a zero (4)

An industrious insect that somehow gathered a crowd to recite letters in public (3)
The dictionary headword that rules over all its inflected variations (5)
The underground base where all family words branch out (4)
A single carved character that tells a silent story (5)
A meaningful unit of speech, or a promise made to another (4)
Uttered aloud rather than written down on a dusty page (6)
To dress foreign words in familiar alphabetic clothing (13)
A system of pauses and stops that prevents sentences from running forever (11)
The strict set of laws governing how letters must behave in public (11)
A typographical marriage where two letters fuse into one (8)
A shorthand identity forged from the initial letters of a longer title (7)
Mechanical repetition that keeps spelling champions reciting in their sleep (4)