Wordplay Wonders
Across
- 2. - Swapping initial sounds of two words (e.g., "tease my ears" for "ease my tears")
- 4. - Rearrangement of letters to form a new word
- 7. - Word or design with multiple meanings
- 10. - A 150th anniversary
- 12. - Reads the same backward as forward
- 13. - Puzzle with hidden messages in initial letters
- 15. - Newly coined word or expression
- 17. - A lover of words
- 18. - Manuscript with erased and rewritten text
- 19. - Memory aid or device
Down
- 1. - Words that imitate sounds (e.g., buzz)
- 3. - Blend of two words (e.g., brunch)
- 5. - Person with both introverted and extroverted traits
- 6. - Extremely idealistic and unrealistic
- 7. - Repetition of initial sounds in a phrase
- 8. - Sentence using all letters of the alphabet
- 9. - Long, complex word or person who uses them
- 11. - Discovery by chance
- 14. - Word with no repeating letters
- 16. - Contradictory word pair (e.g., jumbo shrimp)