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Cryptic Glyphs of Ancient Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Ancient African script linked to forest dwellers (trick: not a script)
  • 2. Notorious false script named after a famous hoaxer
  • 5. Cipher-like tool used in medieval cryptology (cryptic clue: 'museum's alone' anagram)
  • 7. Obscure Greek magical spells inscribed cryptically
  • 8. Marks resembling stars, often denote uncertain transcription in texts
  • 11. Scripts used for Tibeto-Burman languages, often overshadowed
  • 15. Late Egyptian script used for daily texts, post-hieratic
  • 18. Script associated with the Harappan civilization, indecipherable
Down
  • 3. Mesoamerican culture speculated to have used iconographic markings
  • 4. Bronze Age Aegean script preceding Greek alphabet
  • 6. Term hinting at lost scripts beyond known alphabets
  • 9. Wedge-shaped tablets inscribed by Sumerians
  • 10. Globes inscribed with coded geographic notations
  • 12. African script devised in the early 20th century by a king
  • 13. Mysterious Easter Island glyphic system, undeciphered
  • 14. Typo inserted to mislead in cryptic clue (does not exist, remove)
  • 16. Ancient Northwestern Indian script written right to left
  • 17. Obscure script name tied to volcanic ash tablets

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