“Where every word has a story — don’t let a single one escape you.”

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Across
  1. 3. — A raincoat whose name itself whispers its Scottish origin.
  2. 5. — Unmoored from reason, as some word choices (though not good ones) may be.
  3. 7. - One who delights in words for their own sake.
  4. 10. — A sharpness on the tongue or in style.
  5. 11. — What poets need when bending rules.
  6. 12. — To make a feeling (or a phrase) thinner, softer, lighter.
  7. 13. — To treat with tender indulgence.
  8. 15. — To give verbal shape to a truth.
Down
  1. 1. — To blend into one harmonious whole — much as themes do.
  2. 2. — The cultivation of grapes, and occasionally metaphors.
  3. 4. — To give in without voicing resistance.
  4. 6. — Different in essence, like registers of language.
  5. 8. — Like something painted by a poet with soft verbs and gentle vowels.
  6. 9. — A newborn’s first curated collection of garments.
  7. 14. — Linguistically, the “second seat” of a motorcycle lexicon.