Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Chronicles of Forgotten Glyphs
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 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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