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Esoteric Scripts and Linguistic Genesis
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. The art of reading hidden texts etched in stone or metal (9)
  • 3. Study of meaning that unlocks cryptic word origins (9)
  • 4. Symbol that stands for word rather than sound’s secret key (8)
  • 5. Scientific study of tongues, tracing roots that shaped speech (10)
  • 7. Carved signs encoding complex messages from antiquity (8)
  • 9. Inscription’s cryptic text reveals ancient origin story (8)
Down
  • 2. Disordered sequence in script style missing first or last letter? (8)
  • 6. System governing spelling—secret map of letters’ historic forms (11)
  • 8. Wedge-shaped script carved on clay tablets from Mesopotamia (9)
  • 10. Sacred cursive, Egyptian priest’s shorthand enchanted (8)
  • 11. Pear-shaped symbol hides ancient writing’s cryptic essence (8)
  • 12. Smallest sound units forming secret linguistic building blocks (8)

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