Discover historic craftsmanship with this crossword featuring classic antique tools and devices essential to trades of the past.
Arcane Artifacts of Craft and Time
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Elastic rod wielded to resist twist in early mechanics
- 2. Historic lifting support for carts and carriages
- 3. Instrument plotting perimeters in pre-digital cartography
- 4. Ancient celestial calculator once guiding mariners’ wanderlust
- 5. Adjustable grip forged for mechanical clasping
- 6. Handy boring tool with screw tip for craftsmen
- 13. Baroque preservation rack, though more culinary than craft
- 14. Temporary platform elevating artisans to crafted heights
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- 7. Key to ancient textile’s rhythmic twist and turn
- 8. Roman enigma tool resembling twelve-faced polyhedron
- 9. Tiny protector of needle’s dominion in sewing lore
- 10. Rotating device once key in mechanical timing engines
- 11. Harness frame, ancient draft animal's utilitarian bond
- 12. Ornamental spindle guarding stairways since antiquity
- 15. Precision scale’s sidekick in analog measurement