The Linguistic Labyrinth

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• A brief explanation of a difficult word (5)
• Dormitory can become dirty room (7)
• Un or Re for example (6)
• Brunch or smog for example (11)
• A play on words often inducing groans (3)
• A punctuation mark that is more than a hyphen (4)
• Piece of cake or break a leg (5)
• Nominative or accusative for example (4)
• A person place or thing (4)

Down

• To speak indistinctly or an insulting remark (4)
• A common suffix for names and terms (4)
• A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word (6)
• Informal vocabulary used by a specific group (5)
• The total vocabulary of a language (5)
• It usually ends in ly and describes an action (6)
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (12)
• Racecar or Madam (10)
• Two and To sound alike but differ in meaning (9)
• The branch of linguistics concerned with meaning (9)
• A polite way of saying something unpleasant (9)
• A word that means nearly the same as another (7)
• Palindromic partner of a feline (4)

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