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Cryptic Scripts and Forgotten Tongues is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Descriptive term for symbolic or pictorial writing forms
- 2. Roman British alphabet inscribed on wax tablets
- 3. Pertaining to letters; often found in coded ancient correspondence
- 5. Unclassified script hypothesized on Central African artifacts
- 6. Hypothesized writing system of the Preclassic Mesoamerican culture
- 7. Ancient wedge-shaped script on Mesopotamian tablets
- 9. Script linking Aramaic and Arabic in ancient trade scripts
- 15. Simplified Egyptian script succeeding hieratic
- 17. Language family associated with ancient lost runiform scripts
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- 4. Alphabetic precursor to Phoenician from Bronze Age inscriptions
- 8. Words composed to exploit phonetic ambiguity in scripts
- 10. Undeciphered glyphic script from Easter Island
- 11. Mycenaean syllabary predating the Greek alphabet
- 12. Syllabary used on Crete, predecessor to Linear B
- 13. Ancestor script to the 9th-century Uralic alphabet
- 14. Ancient Semitic script found across Arabian sandstone
- 16. Elusive ancient Chinese script, also called 'Mystic Seal'
- 18. Pre-Roman script used in the eastern Iberian Peninsula
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