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Renaissance Ciphered Tongues Revealed
Explore the secretive scripts and linguistic puzzles of the Renaissance era with this crossword focusing on cryptic languages, codes, and the mystique of historical ciphers.
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  • 1. Ancient Egyptian cursive script
  • 2. System of medieval symbols and coats of arms
  • 3. Rearranged letters forming secret words or phrases
  • 4. Renaissance script style often ornate and cryptic
  • 6. Ancient alphabet often used symbolically
  • 8. Manuscript reused and overwritten
  • 14. Polyalphabetic cipher popularized in Renaissance
  • 16. Poem or phrase spelled out by first letters
  • 17. Sanskrit term for symbolic signs or features
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  • 5. Ancient manuscript in book form
  • 7. The art of writing or solving codes
  • 9. Primary scholarly language of Renaissance Europe
  • 10. Method of encrypting text
  • 11. Use of symbols to convey deeper meanings
  • 12. Set of letters used to write a language
  • 13. Medieval precursor to chemistry with symbolic language
  • 15. Study of stars often encoded with secret meanings
  • 18. Scholarly class knowledgeable in languages

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