Nearby, a production assistant wears a T-shirt with a cryptic symbol on it - an old shoe inside a barred red circle.

But the cryptic symbols still were there.

A stream of cryptic symbols responded to his promptings.

Just looks like a bunch of cryptic symbols to me.

Behind him, for background, there were various cryptic symbols and bits of alchemical apparatus.

Here was evidence of the plotters' efforts to decipher the cryptic symbols.

"Here's the copy of the original survey report, and I don't need to be a mining specialist to figure out what these cryptic symbols mean."

The cryptic symbol looked more and more like a giant bird in a ring of flame.

She chose a can with a cryptic symbol stamped on it.

Then they came to the crudely fashioned case with the cryptic symbols on its front.