A Way with Words

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Across
  1. 1. "'____, your worst nightmare!"
  2. 4. Not to be spoken of in a theatre
  3. 6. Describes an ideal life in the countryside
  4. 8. A "mouthy" area of the brain
  5. 9. Finding one's own _____
  6. 11. Spelling ___
  7. 15. Speaks with a troublesome tongue
  8. 17. What a smooth-talker is, like something greasy
  9. 18. Not "nine" but ____
  10. 19. Some call him "the bard" (Hint to 4- Across)
  11. 20. "The one, the only _______!"
  12. 21. Prefix for "-versive" and "-linear"
  13. 22. Vampire Weekend's favorite type of comma
  14. 23. Poet's name that rhymes with "feats"
Down
  1. 2. A part for the whole, or a whole for the part, linguistically
  2. 3. Silent
  3. 5. Middle-aged English?
  4. 7. "Scots Word of the Day" creator Len
  5. 10. Heard in monasteries and sports arenas
  6. 11. "Auld Lang Syne" poet
  7. 12. A guiltlessly cryptic code system
  8. 13. A non-verbal language, as an acronym
  9. 14. Clever Arabian storyteller
  10. 16. "Fiery" romance author Nicholas
  11. 17. An editor's way of saying never mind