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Arcane Alphabets and Forgotten Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Ciphered term for a decayed ancient writing style (creative cryptic)
  • 2. Semitic abjad from ancient northwest Arabian inscriptions
  • 3. Scholarly term blending ! Ancient script's cryptic essence (anagram of 'alien achi')
  • 4. Phenomenon of speaking in unintelligible tongues
  • 5. Ancient Anatolian civilization with Indo-European tongue
  • 6. Vertical notches carved into stone, ancient Celtic script
  • 10. Artifact key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • 12. Obscure coined term linking vanished dialect and cryptic letters
  • 15. Mythical tower associated with linguistic confusion
  • 19. Term vaguely hinting at a lost language from Assam region
Down
  • 7. Extinct Baltic tongue reconstructed from scant texts
  • 8. Language and script from ancient Iran known via inscriptions
  • 9. Wedge-shaped script of ancient Mesopotamia
  • 11. Egyptian cursive script derived from sacred hieroglyphs
  • 13. Language from ancient Iran, script undeciphered fully
  • 14. Minoan script deciphered via Greek phonetics
  • 16. Late Egyptian script used for common, not sacred, writings
  • 17. Anagram of 'BARNILA', referring to a lost script (wordplay)
  • 18. Misread reverse of an ancient script’s name (wordplay hint)
  • 20. Script adopted by the Uyghurs, derivative of Sogdian

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