Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Arcane Relics of Obsolete Engineering
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Mirror-based optical instrument, a forgotten ancient equalizer.
- 3. Device designed to press and wring, long before dryers.
- 4. Nautical angle-measuring device, now eclipsed by GPS.
- 6. Duplicating instrument, tracing lines with proportional precision.
- 9. Hourglass alternative measuring fleeting sands of time.
- 10. Feathered instrument once wielded by scribes and poets.
- 13. Obsolete measuring rod used in ancient surveying and cartography.
- 15. Simple but essential tool for verticality, dipped in gravity’s pull.
Down
- 2. Manual auger, piercing wood with screw and twist.
- 5. Textile tool that turns thread during ancient weaving crafts.
- 7. Historical dental tool, long replaced by modern apparatus.
- 8. Heavy anchor for woven threads, now museum relics.
- 11. Early sound reverberator spinning wax cylinders or discs.
- 12. Classic scale, weighing truth from matter in fine equilibrium.
- 14. Long-distance coder of dots and dashes before wireless reign.
- 16. Ancient celestial calculator once used to chart stars and time.
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