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Cryptic Scripts of Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Obsolete character encoding, once rivaling ASCII in IBM's legacy.
  • 2. Ancient Northwest Indian script written right to left.
  • 8. Wedge-shaped impressions that scripted Sumerian chronicles millennia ago.
  • 9. Coined term for enigmatic extinct alphabets—hypothetical puzzle seed.
  • 12. Preclassic Mesoamerican civilization with cryptic glyphic inscriptions.
  • 14. Script devised by bishop Ulfilas for translating the Bible.
  • 15. Ancient Iranian script surviving in administrative clay tablets.
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  • 3. Runic alphabet used by early Germanic tribes, partly lost.
  • 4. Pre-alphabetic script etched by Semitic workers in Egyptian mines.
  • 5. Ancient Indo-Aryan language, classical script precursor.
  • 6. Stone bearer unlocking Egyptian scripts via trilingual inscription.
  • 7. Adjective hinting at scripts foundational to linguistic offspring.
  • 10. Greek Bronze Age culture known for Linear B inscriptions.
  • 11. Simplified Egyptian script, once used for daily documentation.
  • 13. Latin plural for tongues, hinting at the diversity of scripts lost.
  • 16. Bronze Age script, sibling to Linear A, deciphered after Knossos.
  • 17. Mysterious undeciphered symbols found on ancient South Asian seals.
  • 18. Phoenician derivative scribbled around Carthage, now silent.
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