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Cryptic Scripts of Forgotten Tongues
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Northwest Indian script, written right-to-left, lost around 3rd century CE
  • 2. Minoan script preceding Linear B but still undeciphered
  • 4. A cursive Egyptian script, successor to hieratic
  • 5. Mysterious Easter Island glyphs defying interpretation
  • 7. Bronze Age Aegean script still partly undeciphered
  • 8. Prehistoric European signs sometimes called the earliest script
  • 10. Ancient Anatolian empire's script, partly deciphered in cuneiform
  • 12. Sudanese alphabetic script that remains partially indecipherable
  • 13. Constructed advanced term referencing elusive, bird-like ancient scripts (wordplay)
  • 14. Writing system from ancient southwestern Iran, using linear and cuneiform forms
  • 19. Early medieval alphabet inscribed on stones in Ireland and Britain
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  • 3. Imagined deprecated script used by ancient cryptographers (trick clue)
  • 6. Oldest writing system from Iran, still largely untranslated
  • 9. Complex Mesoamerican glyphic script, deciphered in part
  • 11. Wedge-shaped marks from Mesopotamia's clay tablets
  • 15. Linguistically isolated ancient Balkan writing system
  • 16. Base form of an ancient Egyptian script associated with monumental carving
  • 17. Harappan civilization's enigmatic pictographic script
  • 18. Early Mesoamerican civilization with undeciphered symbols

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