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Vanished Edifices: Obscure Architectural Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Hidden underground chamber for secret religious rites
  • 2. Forest of columns supporting ancient temple roofs
  • 3. Walkway encircling a sanctuary, forgotten medieval design
  • 4. Fabled island architectural style blending temples and columns
  • 6. Step-pyramid sanctuary lost to Babylonian sands
  • 8. Roman civic hall transformed in ecclesiastical form
  • 10. Passageway leading to sanctuaries or tombs, ancient style
  • 11. Ancient Cypriot city with distinctive urban plan
  • 12. Pigment painting on wet plaster, decorating vaulted halls
  • 15. Delicate fluted column with scroll motifs, classical lost art
Down
  • 5. Post-and-lintel system forsaken for arches
  • 7. Stacked brick technique predating arches, defies gravity
  • 9. Honeycomb vaulting hallmark vanished in Western lore
  • 13. Roman dome marvel, echoing polytheistic reverence
  • 14. Ancient earthen building block, fragile but foundational
  • 16. Beehive tombs of Mycenaean grandeur, lost in time
  • 17. Carved upright stone, sometimes architectural marker or altar

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