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Cryptic Scripts of Ancient Alphabets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Semitic script ancestor to Greek, forgotten in plain sight (10)
  • 2. Permanent engraved writing, often lost in ancient tongues (11)
  • 3. Nordic carved monument preserving cryptic alphabets (9)
  • 5. Functional use behind forgotten scripts’ demise (7)
  • 7. Conjectural name for unclassified Paleo-Siberian script (10)
  • 8. Carved symbol style typical of Mayan and Egyptian lost scripts (7)
  • 9. Consonant-only script class including ancient Semitic alphabets (5)
  • 12. Symbol representing sound in early writing systems (9)
  • 17. Ancient Iranian script, eclipsed by cuneiform languages (7)
  • 18. Hypothetical ancient Cypriot script slipped into obscurity (7)
Down
  • 4. Angular script style, ancestor to many Islamic orthographies (7)
  • 6. Source script for Old Turkic texts, carved in stone (6)
  • 10. Study of ancient handwriting unlocking lost alphabets (12)
  • 11. Simplified Egyptian script bridging hieroglyphs and everyday (7)
  • 13. Old Turkic script's stylized runic inscriptions (6)
  • 14. Wedge-shaped writing vanished with Mesopotamian empires (9)
  • 15. Pre-Indo-European root sometimes linked to early Iberian script (8)
  • 16. Variant Greek dialect alphabet influencing Western scripts (7)

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