Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Arcane Instruments of Forgotten Craftsmanship
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Smoothing curved shafts, a wheelwright’s delicate slicer
- 2. Tool used for weaving or binding; an archaic handcrafter’s aid
- 3. Rotary machine shaping wood or metal, old craftsman’s dance
- 4. The coarse finishing process; tool required to harrow the past
- 5. Small eyelet hardened for lashing, once a blacksmith's delight
- 9. Historical prying tool patented, but now veiled in dust
- 11. Decorative chisel work on metal—or leaf-like carving
- 12. Marks unseen lines on metal, a craftsman's secret guide
- 13. Soft hammer crafting delicacy without bruising the grain
- 15. Piercing point for leather, the smallest craftsman’s spear
- 16. Small double-edged blade, reaver of intricate carvings
- 18. Cleave wood with axe turned sideways, a tool of antiquity
Down
- 6. Splitting wooden planks by levering—ancient log’s delimiter
- 7. Screw-shaped drill, piercing old wood’s fortress
- 8. Needle-like tool, key to knots and nautical lore
- 10. Tool that polishes metal, rubbing bright past shadows
- 14. Edged instrument broadly used to shape timber’s rough visage
- 17. Clamp that grips timber fast, ancestor to modern vise
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