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Arcane Instruments of Forgotten Craftsmanship 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 Instruments of Forgotten Craftsmanship
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Notched token tool used for medieval accounting and record-keeping
- 2. Device tracing curves to deduce area—a surveyor’s forgotten ally
- 3. Precision marking instrument making faint lines on metal or wood surfaces
- 6. Celestial calculator once vital for mariners' nocturnal navigation
- 9. Antiquated nocturnal celestial navigation guide, named for a mythic figure
- 10. A cone-shaped amplifying horn displaced by electronic sound devices
- 12. Medieval woodworking plane uncoupled now from contemporary toolkits
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- 4. Single stroke calligraphy brush tool no longer mainstream in Western script
- 5. Hand-driven auger once crucial for precise wood boring
- 7. Primitive hand mill that predates mechanized flour production
- 8. Early form of manual fire pump critical before mechanization
- 11. Ancient odometer variant measuring journeyed distance by revolutions
- 13. Reference to a proportional ruler inspired by ancient architectural canon
- 14. Curved blade tool for shaping wood, now largely replaced by power saws
- 15. Obsolete optical measuring device replaced by modern theodolites
- 16. Angular tool measuring heavenly bodies’ altitudes to fix position at sea
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