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Cryptic Keys to Forgotten Scripts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Metaphor for illuminating extinct scripts via cryptanalysis
  • 2. Invented term for tongue or language-related paleo-cryptography
  • 3. A device or script designed to encode secret lost texts
  • 4. Ancestral language hypothesized to underlie early Mesopotamian scripts
  • 6. Ancient southwestern script, password to decipher cuneiform’s cousin
  • 9. Old Slavic word for wood, symbolic for forgotten forest dialects
  • 12. Derived from an early liturgical language, now nearly extinct
  • 13. Obscure term coined for a scribe of lost ancient languages
  • 17. North African derivative of Phoenician, lost and rare
  • 20. Obscure extinct language known only from a few cryptic tablets
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  • 5. Roman-era tablets revealing lost script near Hadrian’s Wall
  • 7. Bronze Age Aegean script, still partly inscrutable
  • 8. Adjective describing something related to epigraphy, the study of inscriptions
  • 10. Mythical Sumerian name, also a cipher for early cuneiform tablets
  • 11. Hypothetical script name derived from ancient lost codices in the Near East
  • 14. Fictional lost dialect crafted from pieced linguistic fragments
  • 15. Lost Slavic dialect with limited surviving codices
  • 16. Technique crucial for preserving lost languages on stone tablets
  • 18. Extinct script of Western Xia dynasty, complex logograms
  • 19. Adjective describing circular or revolving cipher patterns in ancient scripts

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