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Cryptic Scripts of Lost Alphabets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Fictional galactic script masquerading as alphabetic code
  • 2. Derivative script evolved from the Bamum invention
  • 3. Late Egyptian cursive, streamlined hieroglyphic descendant
  • 5. Anatolian alphabet reflecting a lost tongue’s sounds
  • 6. Germanic angular script wielded like a mystic cipher
  • 7. African syllabary devised by a Cameroonian king
  • 8. Proto-alphabetic traders whose signs birthed Greek letters
  • 13. Mesopotamian wedge-shaped impression script on clay tablets
  • 16. Cuneiform variant etched in ancient southwestern Iran
  • 17. Simplistic yet enigmatic script from Pacific islands
Down
  • 4. Generic term for symbolic marks in ancient script art
  • 9. Maldivian script mixing Arabic numbers and Indic letters
  • 10. Right-to-left script once thriving in Gandhara realm
  • 11. Semitic mercantile script that paved form to Arabic letters
  • 12. First Slavic script, ornate and cryptic by design
  • 14. Obscure medieval script tied to mystical manuscripts
  • 15. Bronze Age syllabary used for Mycenaean Greek
  • 18. Ancient Irish tree-letter code carved in stone

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