Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Axioms and Cryptic Counsel
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Hidden or subordinate phrase nested in a saying
- 3. Medieval term for pithy moral wisdom, not grammar
- 5. Minimal unit of meaning crucial to proverbial nuance
- 6. Profound wisdom distilled in proverbial form
- 9. A hastily made work—paradoxically a warning of quality
- 10. Crosswise verbal structure in some memorable proverbs
- 12. Relating to aphorisms or the art of concise truth
- 17. Self-evident truths often hidden in ancient maxims
Down
- 2. Inscription or motto underscoring a proverb’s climax
- 4. Harsh phraseology sometimes reversed in obscure wisdom
- 7. A terse, instructive saying often cloaked in antiquity
- 8. Classical term for moral or witty aphorism
- 11. A fanciful metaphor enriching aphoristic expressions
- 13. Framework of knowledge from which old sayings arise
- 14. Pluralized form of timeworn folk wisdom’s repository
- 15. A curve and a story; figurative wisdom wrapping math
- 16. Confused utterance becomes unwitting proverb’s shadow
- 18. Redundant phrasing that ironically deepens proverbial scope
- 19. Greek root for pithy sayings, wisdom compacted
- 20. Philosophical puzzlement found within paradoxical sayings