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Enigmatic Cipher Art of Renaissance Scrolls
A challenging crossword exploring the mysterious cryptic codes, symbolic alphabets, and secret techniques found in Renaissance manuscripts.
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Across
  • 1. Combined letters used as a secret mark
  • 2. Room where manuscripts were copied
  • 3. System for secret writing
  • 4. Secretive Renaissance-era mystical society
  • 8. Related to medieval chemical symbols and codes
  • 10. Ancient grid cipher used in cryptography
  • 11. Rearranged letters to create hidden meanings
  • 15. Study of symbols and signs
  • 17. To deliberately make text difficult to understand
  • 18. Symbolic representation often used in coded manuscripts
Down
  • 5. Concealing messages within other, non-secret text or images
  • 6. Cipher method using a keyword to encode text
  • 7. A substitution cipher shifting letters by a fixed number
  • 9. Manuscript page reused and overwritten
  • 12. A puzzling or mysterious message
  • 13. Esoteric traditions influencing Renaissance codes
  • 14. A symbolic figure or character
  • 16. Text written in code or cipher
  • 19. Ancient alphabets sometimes used in codes
  • 20. What happens when a cipher is solved

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