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Cryptic Scripts and Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Decoding method vital in breaking archaic linguistic puzzles
  • 2. Early Greek culture whose script remains partly obscure
  • 3. Mysterious symbols once carved on Nordic stones
  • 4. Ancestor script to the modern Semitic languages
  • 8. Consonant-only script family common in lost Semitic alphabets
  • 12. Egyptian script named for its ‘popular’ usage
  • 13. Field studying fragile manuscripts key to ancient scripts
  • 15. Key stone bridging Greek and Egyptian mysteries
  • 17. Bronze Age Aegean script still undeciphered
  • 18. Study of inscriptions crucial for deciphering dead tongues
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  • 5. Phonetic feature often marked in ancient lost alphabets
  • 6. African script invented by a king, now endangered
  • 7. Obscure ancient script named for a coastal Adriatic region
  • 9. Complete typographic record of an extinct alphabet
  • 10. Lost alphabet hinted at by cryptic classical sources
  • 11. Wedge-shaped script of early Mesopotamian scribes
  • 14. Decorative style masking the underlying ancient script
  • 16. Hypothetical ancient dialect underlying later languages
  • 19. Ancient shorthand from Mesopotamian scribes
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