Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Arcane Trades and Esoteric Crafts Through Ages
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Harvesters for ancient huts and thatched roofs in marshy abodes
- 2. Lead pipe workers, deriving name from Latin ‘plumbum’
- 3. Town criers who dispersed news—sometimes by beating metal discs
- 5. Barrel makers wielding hoops and staves in artisanal craft
- 6. Arrow artisans perfecting feathers for ballistic precision
- 8. Specialist hunter of vermin during plagues and pestilence
- 11. One who harvests sanguine cure from nature's crustacean
Down
- 4. Candle maker working with animal fat before modern wax was king
- 7. Medieval copyist wielding quill to script decrees and charters
- 9. Dish washers before dishwashers; abrasively cleaning vessels
- 10. Proto-chemist chasing philosopher’s stone through mystical transmutation
- 12. Sites of ancient alchemy turning hides into durable leather
- 13. Scavengers for treasure in Thames’ muddy retreats
- 14. Crafter of combs and tools from keratinous appendages
- 15. Quarrelsome or odd laborer: a Scots term for a troublemaker
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