Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Archaic Desk Implements Cryptic Quest is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Archaic Desk Implements Cryptic Quest
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Voice recorder once chained to desks, ancestor to digital
- 2. Mechanical letter-stamper that keyed language before pixels
- 3. Shorthand machine capturing speech at sprinting speeds
- 4. Miniature archival sheet holding documents in shrinking form
- 7. Lexicon twin aiding writers with synonyms, pre-internet
- 10. Quality in sound, once tested by wire recorders
- 12. Quill preparer who transformed shafts for ink scripts
- 14. Rubber’s nimble trace remover before digital undo
- 17. Ancient calculator with sliding beads, predating digits
Down
- 5. Duplicate papers created with carbon’s silent press
- 6. Tool punching holes, key in filing’s old domain
- 8. Blueprint precursor inked in photochemical shadows
- 9. Electric pulse messenger spelling out Morse's legacy
- 11. Melted barrier once stamping authenticity and privacy
- 13. Feathered writing tool once dipped in ink’s embrace
- 15. Stain, or test, revealing psyche’s hidden ink-spill
- 16. Dialing mechanism spinning calls into place
- 18. Paper’s archaic sharp point, holding memos in prick
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