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Arcane Quills and Obsolete Styluses is a hard crossword puzzle with 17 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Arcane Quills and Obsolete Styluses
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Glass pen component reflecting light and ink’s pale shimmer in renaissance desks
- 3. Early fibrous tip pen that absorbed ink but struggled with sharp precision
- 6. Volatile solvent once used to clean writing tools stained with historic ink
- 11. Animal skin manuscript, paired intimately with ancient nibs and styluses
- 13. Weighted writing instrument, once used for precision drafting, now long lost
- 14. Volcanic glass once fashioned into sharp styluses marking clay tablets
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- 2. Etching agent applied with pen, biting the surface with acidic wit
- 4. Tiny blade removing errant marks from vellum, scribe’s silent eraser
- 5. Smoothing tool for fine manuscripts, alternative to a writing implement itself
- 7. A regal writing rod masquerading as authority's emblem, not just a symbol
- 8. Wax source vital for sealing letters; flickering aid to nighttime scripting
- 9. Containment vessel prone to spillage, cradle of flowing script’s origin
- 10. Early metallic ink conductor, precursor to ballpoint’s fluid glide
- 12. Phenomenon of ink seeping unpredictably from feathered nibs in candlelight
- 15. Obsolete pen type named after its slender willow-nib origin
- 16. Multipurpose tool to sharpen writing feathers, wielded by scribes
- 17. Ancient writer's shaft carved from marshland vegetation for inky tales
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