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Enigmatic Folktale Riddles and Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. A prophetic figure or place often issuing riddling pronouncements
  • 2. The coexistence of multiple meanings in a single word or phrase, a key riddle device
  • 4. One skilled in crafting or solving perplexing riddles or puzzles
  • 5. Intended for or understood by a small, specialized circle, like obscure folk riddles
  • 6. A didactic narrative with a concealed moral lesson, often veiled in allegory
  • 7. Resembling the cryptic guardian of Thebes, known for riddling enigma
  • 8. A word or design readable from multiple orientations, a visual puzzle
  • 13. The study or crafting of fables, especially those laden with hidden meanings
  • 14. Pertaining to prophecy or predictions expressed enigmatically
  • 15. A perplexing puzzle or riddle, often involving wordplay or paradox
  • 18. The art or practice of composing cryptic or enigmatic puzzles
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  • 3. Encoded letters or symbols requiring decryption, akin to riddle scripts
  • 9. Pertaining to a word or phrase formed by rearranging letters cryptically
  • 10. An imagined monster from mythology, metaphorically an absurd or impossible riddle
  • 11. Relating to the arrangement of words or symbols creating cryptic narrative puzzles
  • 12. Intricate maze often symbolizing puzzlement in mythological tales
  • 16. Having the creative quality of making myth or legend, especially riddled with symbolism
  • 17. Characterized by a double layer of meaning, often in folktale riddling
  • 19. Relating to symbolic carvings that encode mysterious messages
  • 20. Devouring everything indiscriminately, metaphor for insatiable curiosity in riddling

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