1. A piece of writing in code or cipher
   "The detective struggled to decipher the cryptogram left by the suspect";
   - cryptograph, secret writing
    
2. A puzzle in which a quotation or other short piece of text is encoded, e.g. using a letter-replacement cipher, and the solver tries to decode it; often presented as a set of boxes to fill with the encoded letter by each box
   "She enjoyed solving the daily cryptogram in the newspaper"

Derived forms: cryptograms

Type of: piece of writing, writing, written material

Encyclopedia: Cryptogram