Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Ciphered Scripts of Maritime Merchants
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Spanish plateau, name once whispered in medieval trade dialects
- 2. Phoenician port city linked to one of the oldest alphabets
- 3. Cryptic variant related to sapphire trade inscriptions
- 5. Lost Easter Island glyphs, possibly merchant records unknown
- 6. Symbolic unit used in merchant cuneiform accounting
- 8. Ancient Nubian script still undeciphered, a trader’s enigma
- 10. Oasis city with its own unique Aramaic script dialect
- 11. Lingua franca’s ghost in ancient trader correspondence
- 16. Mesoamerican culture with elusive inscriptions, possibly commerce coded
- 18. Carthaginian script keeper of Phoenician mercantile legacy
Down
- 4. A brahmi contemporary used along Silk Road trade routes
- 7. Asia Minor’s first alphabet, coined for trade and currency
- 9. Invented word blending ‘epos’ poems with ‘meros’ parts—fragmented trader lore
- 12. Medieval ship type, named but itself traces old trade tongues
- 13. Hypothetical: A ‘line’ of scripts, ‘per’vasive in trade
- 14. Hurrian-speaking empire, trading with Mesopotamia’s scribes
- 15. Latin for languages, often lost in mercantile scripts
- 17. Language family bridging ancient Indian Ocean merchant networks
- 19. Greek term denoting Indian trade's linguistic frontiers
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