CrosswordMint
Arcane Artifacts of Lost Communication
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Across
  • 1. Facsimile reproduction precursor to digital document transmission
  • 2. Telegraphy dispatch named after the inventor of the telephone
  • 3. Ancient handwritten document formalizing legal decrees or messages
  • 5. Avian messenger of antiquity traversing hostile or battlefields
  • 8. Visual signaling with arms or flags, pre-telecom coastal watchtower
  • 9. Mounted or foot messenger entrusted with dispatches across cities
  • 15. Electromechanical typewriter interfaced for remote text communication
Down
  • 4. Phonograph component capturing analog sound waves in wax analogs
  • 6. Pyric warning system that lit up horizons to transmit urgent news
  • 7. Rotating encryption tool securing messages before electronic cryptography
  • 10. Compressed air-driven mail system of the 19th century urban networks
  • 11. Sunlight reflector transmitting coded signals over vast distances
  • 12. Dot-dash cryptic alphabet underpinning early electric messaging
  • 13. Pre-print handwritten copyist essential to recordkeeping in antiquity
  • 14. Electrochemical sender once spanning continents with Morse's dots and dashes
  • 16. Feathered scribe’s tool before steel nibtipped correspondence

Similar Crossword Puzzles