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Ciphered Scripts of Obscure Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Invented name suggesting lost caucasian alphabets (creative for puzzle)
  • 2. Hypothetical form of forgotten runic or script (crafted for puzzle)
  • 3. Right-to-left script once used in Gandhara, lost to history
  • 4. Egyptian script blending Greek letters with demotic signs
  • 5. Easter Island's undeciphered glyphic system
  • 7. Proto-alphabetic inscriptions found in ancient Lebanon
  • 9. Ancient Berber script still inscribed in Sahara sands
  • 14. Proto-Arabic script ancestor inscribed on Petra's stones
  • 15. Mesopotamian wedge-shaped script used for Sumerian and Akkadian
  • 17. Cuneiform-derived script in ancient southwestern Iran
  • 19. Italic alphabet preceding Latin in ancient Italy
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  • 6. Dialect with obscure script roots in early American settlements (creative for puzzle)
  • 8. Runic family named for the first letter, prominent in Germanic myths
  • 10. Extinct Romance language's hypothetical script conjecture (creative for puzzle)
  • 11. Systematized classification that could alphabetize extinct taxa
  • 12. Undeciphered seal script from Bronze Age South Asia
  • 13. Parent of most modern alphabets, known for maritime trade
  • 16. Bronze Age Aegean syllabary, mystery of ancient Mycenae
  • 18. Script associated with an ancient city of the Indus Valley
  • 20. Primitive Celtic alphabet carved on stones, named after a tree

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