Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Proverbs and Parables Enigma
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Puzzle using pictures to represent words or parts
- 2. Witty poem that conceals advice in verbal disguise
- 3. Contradiction that reveals deeper proverbial insight
- 5. Characteristic expression opaque to literal interpretation
- 7. Figurative comparison cloaking intended proverbs
- 8. Brief maxim or dictum in philosophical text
- 9. Brief evocative scene often implying a deeper meaning
- 13. A rule of conduct cleverly encoded in few words
- 15. Reasoning process linking disparate ideas obscurely
- 16. Time-tested truth wrapped in ancient repetition
Down
- 4. Pertaining to language arts and nuanced phrasing
- 6. Chemical concept metaphor for variant word forms here
- 10. Concise statement conveying a universal truth cryptically
- 11. Equivalent term hiding subtle semantic shifts
- 12. Pithy saying that conceals wisdom like a cryptic gem
- 14. Allegorical story crafting moral layers beneath
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