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Forgotten Artisans and Vanished Crafts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Shoemaker of fine leather, long eclipsed by machinists
  • 2. Mender of pots and pans who moved door-to-door
  • 4. Hammer-wielding forge artist shaping iron’s primal fire
  • 6. Pre-industrial alesmith crafting fermented draughts by hand
  • 9. Early seafarer plotting course by dead reckoning
  • 11. Occasional pot maker—artisan or dabbler in clay
Down
  • 3. Laborer digging canals, a backbone of Victorian progress
  • 5. Extinguished with gaslights, now anachronistic ignitor
  • 7. Wax and candle maker, dimmed by electric proliferation
  • 8. Mender of soles, now rare as factory assembly rules
  • 10. Artisan carving images for manual replication before presses
  • 12. Craftsman of feathers for arrows’ delicate flight
  • 13. Master of wooden joints guarding barrels tight
  • 14. One who mourns professionally at funerals’ lament
  • 15. Illuminator and copier before printing press ascended

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