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Special Instructions: Thirteen of the winners and nominees for the American Dialect Society's Words of the Year 2024 appear as answers, while a further four are used (with varying degrees of transparency) in wordplay; the official ADS press release, linked below for convenience, is to be taken as the authority on their meanings.

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Panthera
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While I do replicate all the relevant parts of this press release in the annotations, the whole thing's worth a read just so you can see what other bits of linguistic silliness you missed last year: https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf

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Polymath

hey I recognise that thumbnail photo... This was great fun, thanks, I love a crossword where you think of a word and think "well if it doesn't go here it's bound to go in *somewhere*". I'm extremely online enough to know all of these words, and I think all the thematic close raised a smile 🙂

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Feline

Thank you, Panthera! This is an astonishing feat! I hope to use 6d in a crossword someday

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