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Forgotten Artifacts of Arcane Trades
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Hand-operated millstone used in antiquity for grinding grains—now museum pieces.
  • 2. An archaic smithy tool for bending and twisting iron rods.
  • 3. Decorated blade used by medieval blacksmiths for shaping armor plates.
  • 7. Sacrificial spindle used in ancient rituals, rumored to aid in textile crafting.
  • 9. Device used in textile trades to press and flatten cloth before mechanical rollers.
  • 13. Heavy-headed hammer once favored by blacksmiths, now largely ceremonial.
  • 15. Ancient carpenter’s curved instrument, named after the eye of a horse’s saddle.
  • 16. Ancient furnace apparatus specifically designed for melting and pouring toxic metal.
Down
  • 4. Coarse implement used by ancient potters to refine clay surfaces before firing.
  • 5. Precision craft involving feathers; tool-less technique of ancient bowmakers.
  • 6. Seamstress’ specialized hook tool for creating elaborate fastening patterns.
  • 8. Obsolete saw variant named for its short wooden billets, obsolete in modern carpentry.
  • 10. Piercing tool critical for fastening metal plates before the industrial era.
  • 11. Medieval tool once used to pull the drawing bowstring—drawn but rarely today.
  • 12. Scissor-like tool vital to early metalworkers for trimming sheet metal edges.
  • 14. Fragmenting chisel once used for fine stone work, now vanished from workshops.
  • 17. Medieval tool for inspecting and repairing delicate lacework.

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