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Cryptic Cartographic Scripts Unearthed
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Name echoes grand sculptor, yet here a coded script for ancient maps
- 2. Latin root for inscriptions; maps once bore this cryptic prose
- 3. Cartographer whose geographic dialect shaped ancient mapping lore
- 5. Specialist who once inscribed landscapes in indecipherable coding
- 7. Numbers once ciphered in archaic plotting languages of the globe
- 8. Esoteric term once describing land measurement texts; now obscure
- 11. Inscribed signs on maps, now indecipherably stylized and lost
- 13. Landform depictions encoded in symbols now faded into silence
- 15. Invisible line once numerically encoded in archaic map tongues
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- 4. Medieval Latin for maps, carriers of lost geographic dialects
- 6. Ancient discipline blending geography with the cosmos’ arcane lexicon
- 9. Hypothetical ancient lexicon of geospatial notation, lost to time
- 10. Star cluster guiding seafarers, its name in esoteric map glyphs
- 12. Medieval mariners’ charts, their language lost in precise coastal lines
- 14. Imagined verdant script indicating green lands, vanished from maps
- 16. Symbolic characters representing terrain, extinct in cartographic parlance
- 17. Fragile ancient medium for secreting cartographic knowledge
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