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Archaic Scales and Measures Unveiled
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Obsolete weight for precious metals, easily mistaken with a sharp jab.
  • 3. British weight unit, as old as shepherds' tales and woolly burdens.
  • 4. Greek coin turned unit of mass, once prized in antiquity.
  • 5. Agrarian length once defining a furrow's length in old English fields.
  • 7. Ancient Near Eastern weight and currency, heavier in historical imagination.
  • 12. Biblical forearm unit, measuring from elbow to fingertip.
  • 14. Liquid measure smaller than a pint, but not quite a full gulp.
Down
  • 2. Ancient Greek liquid measure, less fluid than you'd guess.
  • 6. Old French dry measure, primed for counting grains but now outmoded.
  • 8. Obsolete unit of dynamic viscosity, now supplanted by SI but still stylish.
  • 9. Roman weight once used in apothecaries, sounds like moral hesitation.
  • 10. Medieval cloth measure, stretched in the arm's length tradition.
  • 11. Surveyor's rod measure that links land and legacy in equal parts.
  • 13. Tiny unit once weighing arrows but not to be confused with cereal.

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