Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Enigmas of Antiquity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Manuscript erased and reused, hiding older mysteries beneath
- 3. Shifted alphabet scheme employed by Roman generals to obscure
- 4. Divinatory art decoding fate from lines inscribed on palms
- 5. Symbol of eternal return, serpent devouring its own tail in puzzles
- 6. Ancient maze designed to confound seekers, famed in Cretan myth
- 7. Guardian of riddles at Thebes, half-lion with a cryptic query
- 8. Rearrangement puzzle form twisting letters into hidden meaning
- 11. Ancient Spartan rod cipher necessitating exact alignment to read
Down
- 2. Early medieval Celtic script often carved as a coded message
- 9. Polyhedral shape potentially linked to mystical puzzling relics
- 10. Tiny tiles composing intricate mosaic patterns concealing ancient lore
- 12. Profound mystery or cryptic machine that challenged wartime codebreakers
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