Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Tongues of Ancient Merchants
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Ancient seafaring traders’ script foundational to alphabets
- 2. Silk Road language bridging East and West commerce
- 3. Obscure script used on trade coins in ancient Gandhara
- 4. Dialect of Aramaic that spread through Silk Road commerce
- 6. Latin root for a trader’s shared medium
- 7. Historical trade jargon evolving in vast Eurasian markets
- 8. Language once used by Himalayan merchants crossing remote passes
- 14. Quintessential cuneiform tongue of Mesopotamian commerce
- 17. Egyptian Christian dialect preserving commercial papyri
- 19. Pre-Columbian Peruvian language linked to coastal trading elites
Down
- 5. Hieroglyphic tongue recording Pharaohs’ economic decrees
- 9. Script of desert traders controlling incense caravans
- 10. Language traceable from Carthage’s maritime mercantile reign
- 11. Hellenistic lingua franca facilitating Mediterranean trade empire
- 12. South Indian language tied to ancient spice trade
- 13. Language family instrumental for steppe trading confederations
- 15. Dialect by coastal Indian traders navigating spice routes
- 16. Undeciphered script associated with Nile Valley trade hubs
- 18. Semitic lingua franca once favored by caravan merchants
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