Vocabulary

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Colloquial handle pinned on an alias (7)
• Habitual employment governing grammatical custom (5)
• Terminal accord between matched lines (5)
• Trunk of inflection that bears affixes (4)
• Underground source of biological and lexical growth (4)
• Luggage packing two blended words into one (11)
• Measuring a foot and a half of verbal excess (14)
• Bons companion in witty French remarks (3)
• Mental sharpness found in sharp retorts (3)
• Designated period or precise label (4)
• Substituting the crown for the monarch (8)

Down

• Ancestral radical beneath a modern term (6)
• Descriptive tag that may praise or smear (7)
• Well-worn figure turning up in rhetoric (5)
• Echo chamber where spelling mirrors sound (12)
• Mrs. Slip's laughable blunder of acoustic confusion (11)
• Twin meaning disguised in different clothes (7)
• Distinctive manner of turning a phrase (5)
• Unmeasured speech lacking rhythmic meters (5)
• Active or passive vocalizer (5)
• Headword taking pride of place in entry lists (5)
• Play on syllables that makes groaners laugh (3)

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