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Cryptic Echoes of Oceanic Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Mysterious East Papuan dialect once preserved in chants (8)
  • 2. Fijian isle language, surviving waves of change (7)
  • 3. Ancient archipelago term encompassing vanished scripts (9)
  • 8. Language once spoken in Manus, cloaked in mystery (8)
  • 9. Pidgin past, bridging vanished island tongues (7)
  • 10. Ciphered speech of vanished island ritualists (8)
  • 13. Berber tongue beyond the Oceanic, cryptic outlier (8)
  • 14. Linguistic relic from the Bougainville ghost isles (6)
  • 15. Obscure extinct dialect signifying ‘island speech’ (7)
  • 18. Papuan language entangled in ritualistic lore (6)
Down
  • 4. Archaic tongue spoken in Vanikoro’s shadow (5)
  • 5. Papuan language now buried beneath time's drift (4)
  • 6. Dialect from the fringe of an island chain eastward
  • 7. Island cipher tongue, lost between ocean waves (8)
  • 11. Indigenous Polynesian language noted for ancestral chants (5)
  • 12. Language lost but echoed in Marquesan myths (8)
  • 16. Prevailing archaic language of a Pacific monarchy (6)
  • 17. Forgotten Papuan tongue rich in ritual terms (7)
  • 19. Polynesian term meaning ‘land’ or ‘language island’ (5)
  • 20. Tongue carved in wood, not just a symbol (5)

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