Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Ciphercraft and Cryptic Enigmas
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Tactical diversion to conceal encoded intents (12)
- 2. Codebreaking machine’s elusive handle on secrets (10)
- 3. Embedding secrets where sight fails to see (12)
- 6. Converting alphabets without changing the sounds (12)
- 9. Hebrew cipher reversing the alphabet’s order (6)
- 10. Multiple substitutions confound frequency analysis (12)
- 11. Unbreakable cipher if truly random and single-use (10)
- 12. British estate known for wartime cipher breakthroughs (8)
- 13. Polyalphabetic cipher named for French noble (8)
- 15. Cryptographic enemy counted to crack ciphers (9)
Down
- 4. The art of decoding without the key (13)
- 5. Permutation of characters rearranges all letters (12)
- 7. Unencrypted original before cunning transformations (9)
- 8. Letter-for-letter swapping in cryptographic fashion (12)
- 14. Detecting concealed messages beneath innocent guise (13)
- 16. Pseudorandom flow driving modern stream ciphers (9)
- 17. Caesar trick shifting letters around (8)
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