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Forgotten Artisans’ Implements and Ingenuity
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Handmill’s humble churn, grain ground by primal wheel
  • 2. Combine hay and sleek blade, obsolete in modern fields
  • 5. Ivory engravings carved by seafarers’ skilled appeals
  • 8. Split wood’s secret slicer, wielded with a hammer’s leap
  • 9. Thread-twisting shaft, a spinner’s long-lost zeal
  • 12. Fashioned with toil, as in iron’s worked appeal
  • 13. Carver’s curved partner, old-world timber’s foe
  • 14. Obscure fishing spear, forgotten tackle of the keel
  • 17. Shaken sound device, once used in trades’ secret deals
Down
  • 3. Wrinkle’s ancient foe, press of rollers from age revealed
  • 4. Cotton’s old extractor, named for a genie trapped in yield
  • 6. Medieval needle for stiff leather or chainmail’s weep
  • 7. Ancient powered hammer, pounding metal’s roaring seal
  • 10. Textile cutter’s scissor, before electric reels
  • 11. Skeining contraption, winding threads in trade’s reveal
  • 15. Turned out by craftsmen, spinning shapes from static yield
  • 16. Fragments of trade, broken pots tell stories unreal
  • 18. Wandering mender, patching pots with clinking spiel
  • 19. Furrow maker’s archaic dance, earth rearranged with zeal

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