Answer: CODED
CODED is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 51 times.
Referring Clues:
- Unreadable
 - Like many wartime messages
 - Having secret marks, maybe
 - Like something written in 21-Across
 - Like DNA
 - Requiring cracking, perhaps
 - In secret language
 - Secret
 - Ciphered
 - In C, perhaps
 - Encrypted
 - Like a cryptogram
 - Like some secret messages
 - Needing deciphering
 - Emulated Hammurabi
 - Like cryptograms
 - Not easy to read
 - Like wartime messages
 - Cryptic
 - Encrypted, as a message
 - Like secret messages
 - Like a secret missive
 - Like some wartime messages
 - Put into bars, say
 - Enciphered
 - Hard to read, maybe
 - Like some messages
 - Did some programming
 - Wrote in Java
 - Written in a secret language
 - Wrote an app
 - Wrote software
 - Needing cracking
 - Hard to crack
 - In need of a cracker, perhaps
 - Needing decryption
 - Like a spy's secret message
 - Like spy messages
 - Like a secret message
 - In dots and dashes, maybe
 - Wrote in C or Java
 - Produced some Java
 - Needing a key, perhaps
 - In need of deciphering
 - Like apps
 - Like some hard-to-read messages
 - Wrote some Python, for example
 - Wrote 36-Across, say
 - Wrote in JavaScript
 - Built an app, say
 - Made some Java, say
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - September 26, 2025
 - USA Today - September 26, 2024
 - USA Today - March 21, 2024
 - LA Times - October 22, 2023
 - USA Today - March 07, 2023
 - New York Times - December 17, 2022
 - LA Times - February 06, 2022
 - USA Today - May 28, 2021
 - Netword - December 23, 2020
 - LA Times - December 06, 2020
 - USA Today - November 10, 2020
 - New York Times - June 12, 2020
 - LA Times - November 16, 2019
 - USA Today - April 03, 2019
 - Universal - February 28, 2019
 - Netword - February 13, 2019
 - Netword - September 16, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 28, 2018
 - USA Today - March 26, 2018
 - Netword - February 13, 2018
 
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