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Michigan Daily Crossword Clues
Obscure Abbrv.
Linguistically Speaking
O Canada!
300

In bikes, it precedes seat; in desserts, split

What is banana?

300

Cocktail typically garnished with coffee beans (15 letters)

What is ESPRESSOMARTINI?

300

PIN

What is Personal Identification Number?

300

This word is the official term for “the study of words and their origins.”

What is etymology?

300

The Canadian flag features a leaf from this type of tree at its center.

What is a maple tree?

600

Part of a whole, say, in a periodic table

What is an element?

600

Mexican Peninsula (7 letters)

What is YUCATAN?

600

ATM

What is Automated Teller Machine?

600

Vikings in Germanic and Scandinavian villages through the Viking Age used these symbols to communicate as part of a larger, angular alphabet often etched in stone or wood.

What are runes?

600

While the first two words of the national anthem are quite famous, this conclusion of the same line in the song is not quite as well-known.

  • What is “our home and native land” ?

900

It's very close to illegal, in that it also means "illegal"

What is illicit?

900

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s trusted traveler program (11 letters)

What is GLOBALENTRY?

900

RADAR

What is Radio Detection and Ranging?

900

Languages like Russian and Ukrainian are not written using the Greek alphabet, but instead use characters belonging to this alphabet classification.

What is Cyrillic?

900

This largest town in Saskatchewan is named after a berry, coming from the Cree word “mis-sask-quah-tooh-mina.”

What is Saskatoon?

1200

To do this means to remove something permanently

What is delete?

1200

Song by the Beatles sung in the dead of night? (9 letters)

What is BLACKBIRD?

1200

GIF

What is Graphics Interchange Format?

1200

Created as a social experiment and an attempt to circumvent the shortcomings of modern linguistic barriers, this synthetic language was constructed by a man named L. L. Zamenhof.

What is esperanto?

1200

This body of water in Canada experiences a phenomenon in which the acting force of gravity is slightly lower than the Earth’s average, due to a depressed surface left by the Laurentide ice sheet.

What is Hudson Bay?
1500

This mythological hall of dead Norse warriors has 540 doors

What is Valhalla?

1500

Title locale in a 1950 Billy Wilder film noir (15 letters)

What is SUNSETBOULEVARD?

1500

CAPTCHA

What is Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart?

1500

These types of words are those which have two opposite meanings, such as “consult” meaning both “to give information” and “to receive information.”

What are contranyms?

1500

This species of white-furred bear, also known as the “spirit bear,” is almost exclusively found in the central and northern coastal parts of British Columbia.

What is the Kermode Bear?