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Forgotten Trades of Yesteryear
A crossword exploring long-lost professions from the past centuries that have vanished or evolved beyond recognition.
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Across
- 1. Person who lit street lamps before electricity
- 3. Craftsman who made wooden barrels
- 4. Church bell-ringer or town crier (archaic)
- 7. Tool used by grindstones; sometimes used to mean the sharpener, often by a 'sharpening' trade
- 11. Artisan who joined metal pieces via tin soldering
Down
- 2. Professional copyist before printing presses
- 5. Worker who cleaned soot from chimneys
- 6. Shoemaker specializing in fine leather
- 8. Maker of arrows
- 9. One who placed distance markers along roads
- 10. Person employed to catch rats in towns
- 12. Seller or deliverer of coal for heating
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