A crossword exploring cryptic languages, writing systems, and secret codes from the Renaissance era.
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Renaissance Codes and Secret Scripts
Explore the mysterious cryptic languages and secret communication methods employed during the Renaissance period through this engaging crossword.
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- 1. Esoteric fraternity with mysterious coded writings
- 2. Everyday language that replaced Latin in some Renaissance writings
- 3. Manuscript page with erased and overwritten text, hiding secrets
- 5. Pertaining to mystical chemical formulas and coded texts
- 8. A message written in a secret code or cipher
- 12. Code name for a classical steganography device involving paper holes
- 14. Short story sometimes encoded with hidden meanings
- 16. A carved symbol or character used in secret scripts
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- 4. Technique of hiding secret messages within other content
- 6. Material used for Renaissance manuscripts
- 7. Related to mystical, secret writings inspired by Hermes Trismegistus
- 9. A method of secret writing used to encode messages
- 10. Primary scholarly language of the Renaissance
- 11. Word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
- 13. Device metaphorically linked to multiple languages or scripts
- 15. Word formed by rearranging letters of another
- 17. Hidden, mysterious knowledge often linked to secret languages
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