Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Cryptic Relics of Arcane Messaging
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Feathered courier carrying messages over long distances
- 2. Typewriting device interfacing with telegraph lines
- 3. Handheld rod used for coded visual communication
- 4. Rotating disk used to encode secret messages
- 8. Percussion device relaying coded tribal messages
- 11. Signal fire or light to guide or warn across distances
- 13. Visual signaling system using pivoting arms or flags
- 14. Electromechanical typewriter-like device transmitting text over distance
Down
- 5. Radio-based transmission of telegraphic signals sans cable
- 6. Victorian device for inscribing and reproducing sound mechanically
- 7. Early device scanning and reproducing printed matter by wire
- 9. Sunlight reflection for line-of-sight messaging
- 10. Dot-dash cipher for succinct transmission of letters
- 12. Obscure flipping-card code for message transmission
- 15. Early system transmitting electrical pulses over wires
- 16. Strip with perforations encoding data for transmission or automation