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Archaic Implements of Domestic Craft
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Manual butter-making appliance once found in rural kitchens (5)
  • 2. Hard abrasive household tool now replaced by chemical detergents (7)
  • 3. Ridged slab once essential for scrubbing clothes by hand (9)
  • 5. Punishment instrument also a term for removing impurities from wool (8)
  • 7. Specialized tool for teasing wool fleece in preparation for spinning (7)
  • 8. Trigger mechanism metaphorically used here for archaic lighting tools (9)
  • 9. Early igniter tool, later repurposed for primitive electric starters (7)
  • 10. Domed straw structure formerly used for keeping honey-producing insects (7)
  • 16. Rendered fat used extensively in old candle-making (6)
Down
  • 4. Hand-operated millstone used for grinding grain (5)
  • 6. Portable oil lamp replaced by electric illumination (7)
  • 11. Old-fashioned chest used to store linen before closets existed (9)
  • 12. Device with rollers once used to press wrinkled cloth flat (6)
  • 13. Leather strips used to hone blades, essential in pre-electric homes (6)
  • 14. Wooden basins holding water, predecessors to modern sinks (7)
  • 15. Companion to mortar, a tool to pulverize herbs and spices (6)

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