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Esoteric Codes and Enigmatic Keys
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Puzzle where letters replace digits in arithmetic
  • 2. Hieroglyphic symbol system praising nobility
  • 3. Obscure riddle name suggesting laughter or cryptic joy
  • 4. Cipher method replacing letters systematically
  • 5. Cipher type involving rearrangement rather than substitution
  • 6. Puzzle representing words or syllables by pictures or symbols
  • 11. Word or phrase created by rearranging letters
  • 13. Cipher named after a French cryptographer featuring route transposition
  • 15. Sequence reading identically backwards or forwards
  • 16. Square cipher mapping letters to coordinate pairs
  • 18. Describing something puzzling or involving cryptic complexity
  • 19. Puzzle type where initial letters reveal secret messages
Down
  • 7. Polyalphabetic cipher using repeating keys, named for a diplomat
  • 8. Cipher combining fractionation and transposition devised by Félix Delastelle
  • 9. Systematic naming, key in decoding terminology
  • 10. Rare cipher referencing 17th century Italian nomenclature
  • 12. Ancient Hebrew cipher reversing the alphabet’s order
  • 14. Manuscript overwritten but traceable beneath, metaphor for layered puzzles
  • 17. Cryptic adjective blending ‘zigzag’ and ‘genetic’ denoting complex pattern
  • 20. Pertaining to the dictator’s basic alphabet shift

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