Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Arcane Implements of Forgotten Trades is a hard crossword puzzle with 16 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Arcane Implements of Forgotten Trades
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Old trade machine applying zinc’s protective silver shield
- 2. Hand grinder turning grain into meal in ages past
- 3. Stationary scribe’s aide; the vessel for liquid dark marks
- 4. Early industrial spinner powered by turbines, not hands
- 5. Smoothing timber’s surface, a cabinetmaker’s early helper
- 7. Rare term for a horse-drawn harrow in archaic farming
- 8. Craftsman of timepieces, tuning cogs with artisan finesse
- 12. Master of hides, turning skins into supple trade materials
- 15. Small ax once traders’ ally for splitting and shaping wood
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- 6. A fastening part on flintlocks, now relic of firearm trades
- 9. Ancient furrow maker, once drawn by beasts, now obsolete steel
- 10. One who twirls fibers; both a tool-user and a social tag
- 11. Turning wood or metal, shaping secrets on a spinning bed
- 13. Cotton’s old processing hub, where fibers unfurl mechanically
- 14. Arrow crafter once vital to war, now a lost art
- 16. A footgear mender’s bench, where leather met old nails
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