Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Scripts of Lost Civilizations
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Semitic progenitor whose angular characters seeded alphabets across Mediterranean shores.
- 2. Wedge-shaped impressions marking administrative beginnings of written history in Mesopotamia.
- 3. Neither relevant to alphabets nor forgotten languages; please revise.
- 4. Alphabet devised for Santhali tongue, resurrecting tribal scripts often obscured by dominant languages.
- 8. Incorrect spelling; no alphabet called Maayaa; perhaps intended Mayan.
Down
- 5. Ancient forest-carved script used by insular Celts, its notches mark time and territory.
- 6. Slavic missionary’s cryptic invention, predating Cyrillic by a holy margin.
- 7. Ridiculously vague; Elamite is a language family/script but not an alphabet per se.
- 9. Not an alphabet-related term; relates to taxonomy—irrelevant here.
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