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Esoteric Tongues of Maritime Marauders
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Symbolic name for the language of intimidation on pirate ships
  • 3. Secretive numeral slang derived from sailing contracts and shares
  • 4. Armor-related term also pointing to a structured formal pirate tongue
  • 6. Secret brotherhood language tracing pirate cabals in French archives
  • 7. Process of linguistic borrowing often seen in pirate creole evolution
  • 10. Caribbean hunter’s tongue secreted into pirate slang
  • 13. Code name language used for illicit spirit trade on the high seas
  • 15. General term ironically serving as a cipher within a pirate puzzle
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  • 2. Pirate archetype whose secret communication involved coded calls
  • 5. Waterproof cover doubling as a metaphor for protective coded speech
  • 8. Term doubling as a blade and a sharp linguistic metaphor
  • 9. Obscure tongue combining pirate slang with Mediterranean accents
  • 11. Arrow-feathering term adopted to signal direction in covert parlance
  • 12. Dialect of escaped slaves turned pirates, marked by coded chants
  • 14. Island dialect blending mutineer secret codes and Polynesian roots
  • 16. Hidden trade employing ciphered dialect to elude naval forces
  • 17. Archaic spelling hinting at vengeful coded threats between crews
  • 18. Large sailing vessel; word also encoded navigational jargon
  • 19. Metaphorical word for the fluid transmission of clandestine messages

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