Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Ciphercraft and Cryptogram Lore
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Systematic naming — essential for secret code identification
- 2. Mystical alphabet carved into ancient Northern stone
- 5. Pertaining to ordered set of letters in coding
- 6. Rearrangement that conceals meaning under a new guise
- 10. Single-letter design, sometimes secretive initials
- 14. General term for algorithmic message obscuration
- 15. German WW2 machine that enciphered secret transmissions
Down
- 3. Puzzle where pictures stand for words — not letters
- 4. Polyalphabetic cipher once called 'le chiffre indéchiffrable'
- 7. Art of hiding messages within innocuous content
- 8. Scientific study encompassing ciphers and secret writing
- 9. Symbol-based coded language often used by artists
- 11. 5x5 square used for classical letter substitution
- 12. Smallest unit in writing system, crucial to codes
- 13. Painter whose name sounds like a cipher's pun
- 16. Ancient Hebrew cipher that inverts the alphabet
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