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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
Down
  • 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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