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Eccentric Contraptions and Failed Gizmos
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Quirky 19th-century device for dispensing medication, bird-inspired
  • 3. Hypothetical device aimed at indefinite motion but defies physics
  • 5. Failed traction tech promising grip via inertia, never quite stuck
  • 10. Debunked pseudoscience measuring skull bumps for intelligence
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  • 2. Ambitious personal flight misfires often limited by fuel and control
  • 4. Early experimental heating using electromagnetic waves with poor results
  • 6. Preliminary room, metaphor for a deceptive invention’s waiting trap
  • 7. High-voltage oscillator that sparked both awe and electrocution
  • 8. Mechanical figure sometimes used for spectacle yet prone to failure
  • 9. Early shorthand typewriter, a clunky stenography predecessor
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