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Cryptic Dialects of Submerged Civilizations
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Scripts from the strait bridging continents, lost on maps.
  • 2. Dye-based codes derived from ancient mollusk secretions.
  • 3. Dialect named for coastal birds guiding ancient mariners.
  • 4. Hybrid scripts mixing alphabet and marine pictograms.
  • 6. Obscure logograms of coastal traders vanished in salt spray.
  • 7. Sea-based empire whose language drifted into oblivion.
  • 10. Scholarly critique of forgotten oceanic scripts and codes.
  • 11. Language-related to dolphins, hypothesized in lost fleets.
  • 12. Seafaring alphabetic pioneers whose tongue shaped the waves.
  • 13. Language attributed to mythical seaborne rulers and gods.
  • 15. Charting maritime languages by symbolic notation below waves.
  • 16. Poetic underwater dialect inspired by vanished island culture.
  • 18. Adjective describing elusive maritime tongues lost in storms.
Down
  • 5. Linguistic forms embedded within reef structures, now silent.
  • 8. Encrypted sea lore inscribed on boundary stones offshore.
  • 9. Ancient mariners whose tongues vanished beneath tides.
  • 14. Ancient aquatic symbols etched underwater or on shells.
  • 17. Studies deciphering cryptic carved alphabets, often maritime.
  • 19. Study of spiral-coded scripts linked to oceanic myths.
  • 20. Minoan script defying full decipherment, cousin to A.

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