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Antiquated Domestic Implements Enigma
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Hand-cranked apparatus for pulverizing caffeine beans, lovingly archaic
  • 2. Amplifying blow instrument, also oddly used to summon workers
  • 3. Domestic vessel associated with keeping broth simmering unduly
  • 6. Metal holder branching light before electricity
  • 7. Manual agitator converting cream to dairy gold
  • 11. Uncommon tool for levelling slate tiles on rooftops, domestic aid
  • 15. Relating to air, a type of domestic pump or cleaner obsolete
  • 17. Not just explosive, but once household cleaning aid
  • 18. Sanctified liquid once reserved in secateurs for purity rites
  • 20. Sharpening device for razors by polishing leather-bound wood
Down
  • 4. Simple padded footstool, metaphorically ‘floppy’ furniture relic
  • 5. Mechanized hand-cranked device to twist fibers
  • 8. Forged, heavy relic once used for household heating
  • 9. Quantities drawn by archaic pouring spoon in kitchen rituals
  • 10. Flat wooden presser for wringing linens, pre-washer era
  • 12. Clamping aid often mistaken as avian, held fabric firm
  • 13. Triggering spark device, now archaic, originally for firearms yet notionally a hearth-starting analog
  • 14. Vintage sterilization apparatus named for inventing surgeon
  • 16. Spiral-shaped spring mechanism in obsolete clockwork irons
  • 19. Hand-turned millstone for grinding grain in bygone eras

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