Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Glyphs and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Old Slavic alphabet that predated Cyrillic’s rise
- 2. Primordial Indo-Aryan dialect preserving ancient ritual hymns
- 5. Turkic script used by ancient steppe nomads for sacred texts
- 7. Pacific Northwest language noted for complex verb morphology
Down
- 3. Script invented by King Njoya in Cameroon for indigenous record
- 4. Easter Island’s petroglyphic mystery, still resistive to scholars
- 6. Wedge-shaped script that left tablets of Mesopotamia’s dawn
- 8. Inscriptions engraved on stone, keys to lost linguistic codes
- 9. Minoan script, undeciphered, linked to an Aegean bronze-age puzzle
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