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Cryptic Chronicles of Forgotten Glyphs
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Phonetic alphabet intended to facilitate English pronunciation reform, named after playwright
  • 2. Santali script designed by Pandit Raghunath Murmu, defying Brahmi lineage
  • 4. Mysterious Easter Island glyphs, defying translation for centuries
  • 8. Ancient Sudanese script still partly undeciphered, carved on temple walls
  • 10. Wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets, the earliest writing system known
  • 11. Syllabary originating in Sulawesi, used for an Austronesian language
  • 12. Tuareg Berber script retaining ancient Libyco-Berber shapes in modern use
  • 15. Aramaic-derived script that evolved into Arabic, used by desert traders
Down
  • 3. Cameroonian syllabary devised by King Njoya blending ideographs and phonetics
  • 5. Elusive logographic script used by a vanished empire on Central Asian steppes
  • 6. Oldest Slavic script, named for the act of 'wording' or 'declaring'
  • 7. Right-to-left script derived from Aramaic, used in ancient Gandhara region
  • 9. Hypothetical fusion of ancient Aryan and Germanic scripts, obscure and speculative
  • 13. Mormon-invented alphabet symbolizing honeybee labor, devised for the Book of Mormon
  • 14. Pertaining cryptically to a script inspired by naturalist classification, obscure and botanical

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