Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Enigmatic Keys to Hidden Messages
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Chinese cipher method using numeric substitution
- 2. Polyalphabetic cipher using a repeated keyword
- 4. Ancient alphabet sometimes used as cryptic writing symbols
- 6. Dot and dash system that transmits messages by sound or light
- 8. Well-known shift cipher named after Julius
- 9. Mathematician who helped decrypt Enigma secrets
- 11. Biblical substitution cipher that reverses the alphabet
- 12. Polybius square cipher combined with fractionation
- 15. Type of cipher relying on a common text
Down
- 3. Cipher using a 5x5 letter grid introduced in the 19th century
- 5. Thirteen-letter Caesar shift often used in puzzles
- 7. Ancient Spartan code using a wrapped strip of parchment
- 10. Simple ancient shift cipher named for a Roman leader
- 13. Sculpture with an encrypted message at CIA headquarters
- 14. Famous WWII machine cipher once thought unbreakable
- 16. Code talkers’ language used during WWII communications
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