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Runic Cipher Enigmas of Archaic Scripts
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Across
  • 1. A family of coded languages once shrouded in mystery (5)
  • 3. Inscription carved in stone, cryptically encoding history (8)
  • 4. Wedge-shaped writings on tablets obscure secrets of Sumer (9)
  • 5. Method to break secret scripts, challenging all experts (12)
  • 8. Convert unknown scripts to known speech through skill and lore (9)
  • 10. Sounds named for letters, a cipher in forgotten alphabets (9)
  • 11. Study of discrete sound units in vanished tongues (9)
  • 15. Rational account of obscure etymologies in extinct tongues (8)
  • 17. Carving style in ancient symbols confounds linguistic progress (7)
  • 18. Latin for ‘tablet’ often inscribed with cryptic letters (6)
Down
  • 2. Ancient Norse alphabet cloaked in secret meanings (5)
  • 6. Simplified Egyptian script that conceals priestly knowledge (8)
  • 7. Solve cryptic codes to uncover hidden ancient messages (8)
  • 9. Study of old writing leads decryptors through archaic scripts (12)
  • 12. Scholar who breaks down cryptic languages with finesse (7)
  • 13. Spirit force encoded in native language puzzles (6)
  • 14. Symbol representing a concept, not sound—ancient puzzle piece (8)
  • 16. Mystical name whose encoded script confounds scholars (8)
  • 19. Pertaining to the dictionary reveal of arcane tongue’s vocabulary (7)
  • 20. Latin root for writing; basis for many encrypted glosses (8)
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