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Cryptic Cancellations and Phantom Postalprints
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Elusive postal imprint that never existed but appears in collectors’ lore
  • 2. To fully deface a stamp’s image with inked postal strike
  • 3. Official mark authorizing postage-free mail, sometimes rendered in unusual fashion
  • 5. Official marking applied during wartime to obscure sensitive content
  • 9. To authorize a previously invalidated postal stamp or marking anew
  • 12. Standard term encompassing unusual and common postal impression types
  • 13. Extent and placement of cancellations obscuring postage or document
  • 15. Technique of perforating stamps with initials to prevent theft
Down
  • 4. Imperial cancel named after the German chancellor, marking 19th-century mail
  • 6. Marking sliced through postage to void without cancellation
  • 7. Rare postal instructional marking originating from cloth drying frames
  • 8. Handwritten annotation substituting for a conventional cancellation
  • 10. Cancellation struck at an oblique angle, defying standard alignment
  • 11. Hidden inscription beneath stamp design sometimes exploited in markings
  • 14. Rarely printed postal mark crafted by stone printing methods
  • 16. Cancellation design intentionally left blank or faint to deceive

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