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Cryptic Glyphs of Obscure Alphabets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Hypothetical script named after a 18th-century systematizer of order
  • 2. Which forgotten script decorates like Baroque art, obscuring clarity?
  • 3. Old Slavic uncial with a regal calligraphic lineage
  • 4. Ancient Egyptian script for secular, everyday documentation
  • 5. Northwestern Indian script written right-to-left, lost to Brahmi's prominence
  • 8. Wedge-shaped inscriptions from Mesopotamia's administrative dawn
  • 10. Cuneiform alphabet of an ancient Syrian city-state, foundational alphabetic form
  • 11. Ancient Levantine script still used by a small ethno-religious group
  • 15. Cameroonian script devised by a king, composed of over 80 signs
Down
  • 6. Semitic maritime script spreading alphabetic principles to the Mediterranean
  • 7. Spiral-impressed disk script from Minoan civilization, still undeciphered
  • 9. Angular alphabet of Norse mystics and Viking scribes
  • 12. Aramaic-derived script of desert traders, ancestor to Arabic
  • 13. Script style influencing manuscripts of the Eastern Roman Empire
  • 14. Describes characters carved or inscribed, often in ancient stone
  • 16. Berber script with enigmatic geometric letterforms, surviving millennia
  • 17. Mesoamerican culture linked to colossal heads, also a debated script

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