Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Legendary Cryptic Codes and Ciphers
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Ancient Spartan cylinder cipher tool for secret messages
- 2. Code reference in the 2009 cryptographic thriller novel
- 3. Basic component rearranged in most substitution ciphers
- 5. Polyalphabetic cipher using a keyword for encryption
- 8. A cipher combining substitution and transposition
- 12. Simple substitution cipher named after a Roman leader
- 13. Numerical character often included in modern cryptography
- 14. Native American code used extensively in WWII communications
- 16. Code using dots and dashes for telegraphic communication
Down
- 4. Simple letter-shift cipher rotating alphabet by thirteen places
- 6. First digraph substitution cipher devised for British military
- 7. Classical Hebrew cipher that reverses the alphabet
- 9. Artist's name used as a code keyword in some puzzles
- 10. Alphabetic characters used by ancient Germanic tribes
- 11. Metaphor for a secured message needing decrypting
- 15. German cipher machine famously cracked during WWII
- 17. Unsolved cipher from a notorious 1960s serial killer
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