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Arcane Trades and Labor of the Victorian Era
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Traveling bibliophiles selling printed ephemera on footpaths
  • 2. Ferry operators navigating riverine routes prior to bridges
  • 3. Mobile repairers of tinware, often itinerant craftsmen
  • 5. Nightly igniter of urban glow before electricity’s dawn
  • 10. Night sentry guarding against urban conflagrations
  • 11. Specialist hunter of urban vermin employing traps and terriers
  • 12. Street vendor polishing footwear to a gleaming sheen
  • 15. Scavenger collecting discarded textiles for paper or fuel
  • 16. Street vendors hawking cheap printed ballads in market squares
  • 17. Signalmen who relayed railway messages by telegraph
Down
  • 4. Craftsman rendering fat into candles, a luminous purveyor
  • 6. Laborers striking coins by hammer or screw press
  • 7. Canting word for uneasy or untrustworthy enforcers
  • 8. Pourer of molten metal in early foundries and forges
  • 9. Factory gatekeepers ringing bells to mark shift changes
  • 13. Erectors of transient platforms for high-altitude tasks
  • 14. Shoemaker specializing in fine leather, named for a French city
  • 18. Collectors of discarded bones, essential for early glue-making
  • 19. Herder responsible for dairy herds before industrialized farming

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