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Forgotten Trades of Antiquity is a hard crossword puzzle with 14 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Forgotten Trades of Antiquity
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- 1. Worker scaling soot-choked flues in Victorian Londontown
- 2. Maker of fine leather footwear, once a specialist craft
- 6. Nocturnal guard ensuring town safety before modern policing
- 9. Copyist of documents, precursor to typists and clerks
- 11. Medieval scribe painstakingly inscribing manuscripts by hand
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- 3. Those who extinguished street lamps at dawn’s first light
- 4. Traveler’s attendant carrying burdens, now obsolete by roads
- 5. Maker and seller of animal-fat candles for old lamps
- 7. Illuminator who ignited nocturnal spheres before electricity
- 8. Old term for those who kept harbour lights in perilous coasts
- 10. Craftsman of wooden casks, vital for transport of liquids
- 12. Mender of shoes, a profession slowly eclipsed by mass production
- 13. Artisan who attaches flights to shafts, essential for archers
- 14. Manual woodcutter using a two-person saw in timber mills
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