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Cryptic Legacies of Cipher Founders
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Cipher technique shifting letter order but preserving identity
  • 2. Cipher machine that confounded WWII Allied cryptanalysts
  • 3. Enigma type wheel mechanism enabling polyalphabetic scrambling
  • 5. Lesser-known German WWII cipher method combining substitution and transposition
  • 6. Fractionated cipher dividing letters in dual stages
  • 8. British WWII cipher machine successor to Typex
  • 9. Polyalphabetic cipher named after 16th-century French diplomat
  • 11. Ancient Spartan transposition tool, wrapped rod dictates
  • 13. False cipher, homophone of Caesar’s name to mislead cryptanalysts
  • 15. Biblical monoalphabetic cipher reversing the Hebrew alphabet
  • 16. 19th-century British cipher using geometric patterns in grids
  • 17. Name of the enigmatic sculpture with encrypted messages at CIA headquarters
Down
  • 4. Cipher using one fixed substitution alphabet throughout text
  • 7. Concealed writing hidden within innocuous data
  • 10. Digit-based variant of Caesar’s substitution cipher
  • 12. Technical term for the combined process of encoding and decoding
  • 14. Julius’s simple shift shuffling the alphabet
  • 18. 19th-century British digraph system named after a social club
  • 19. Historic Mesoamerican symbol system used as cryptographic substitute

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