Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Characters: Rare Alphabetic Gems
Explore a crossword filled with uncommon and remarkable letters from alphabets around the world.
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Across
- 2. Icelandic letter representing voiced dental fricative
- 3. Old English and Icelandic letter representing 'th' sound
- 5. German for 'script', hinting at writing systems
- 6. Diacritical mark used in Spanish and Portuguese for nasalization
- 7. Diacritical mark placed under 'c' in French and Portuguese
- 10. Diacritic used in Scandinavian alphabets, looks like a small circle above a letter
- 12. Vowel sound often represented by an inverted e in phonetics
- 16. Letter Đ is used in the Croatian alphabet
- 17. Letter in Cyrillic alphabet representing the sound 'j'
Down
- 1. Japanese currency symbol also used as a Latin script letter variant (¥)
- 4. Latin letter ligature representing a vowel, æ
- 8. Letter in Cyrillic alphabet that sounds like 'zh'
- 9. French diacritical mark used on vowels to show a specific sound
- 11. Nasal consonant letter used in several languages, written as ŋ
- 13. Ancient Slavic alphabet with unique unusual letters
- 14. Old English letter representing a guttural sound
- 15. Old English script influence; refers to early writing traditions
- 18. Diacritical mark used in Vietnamese letters
- 19. Cyrillic letter resembling a 'u' sound
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