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Ciphercraft and Cryptic Linguistics
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Art of obscuring data within innocuous files
  • 2. Rearranging letters’ order without changing them
  • 3. Cipher combining fractionation and transposition
  • 5. Ancient Hebrew substitution cipher flipping the alphabet
  • 7. Famous encrypted sculpture on CIA grounds
  • 10. Rule-of-thumb strategy to break complex ciphers
  • 11. Linguistic term for inclusion or exclusion of participants, often subtle
  • 13. Manuscript reused after original text was erased, hiding messages
  • 16. Resembling something difficult to decipher or interpret
Down
  • 4. Cipher using multiple substitution alphabets sequentially
  • 6. Puzzle consisting of encrypted text to decode
  • 8. Extraneous characters inserted to obfuscate true text
  • 9. Cipher that uses multiple symbols for one letter to confuse frequency
  • 12. Secret phrase or word that unlocks encryption
  • 14. Method rotating alphabetic characters, often by a fixed number
  • 15. Techniques used to detect hidden data in media
  • 17. Single-letter abbreviation or cipher symbol
  • 18. Polyalphabetic cipher named after a French diplomat

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