Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Antiquated Scales and Gauges Enigma
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Early naval rope measurement device, not just a ring
- 2. Old surveyor’s chain measuring length with precision
- 3. An obsolete dry measure used in grain trade
- 4. Instrument with rotating face once used for angular readings
- 7. Ancient Greek weight coin, now a mere artifact
- 9. Metric step once significant, now overshadowed by meters
- 13. Old astronomical angle calculator used under moonlight
Down
- 5. Historic light wavelength measurer, a spectral relic
- 6. Distillation vessel, also historically used for volume measurement
- 8. Used to spy liquid density, now sidelined by modern sensors
- 10. Medieval rope-measuring device, similar to a yardstick
- 11. Old builder's leveling measure, solid and sure
- 12. Primitive tool tracing contours, involving taste of the line
- 14. Device once prized for sounding depths in fathoms
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