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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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