Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Horological Enigma: Escapement and Gearwork Secrets is a hard crossword puzzle with 13 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Horological Enigma: Escapement and Gearwork Secrets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 2. Openwork clock style, bares its moving bones for all to see
- 3. Conical spiral compensates for spring’s uneven pull, ancient winding aid
- 4. Axle converting circular motion, jolts hidden in clock’s heart
- 5. Sequential gears linking powers, a mechanical chain telling temporal tales
- 7. Type of escapement honoring the astronomer’s time-measuring innovation
- 8. Early escapement’s pallet, verge or edge, that courses antique clock pulses
- 10. Small gear's name: sounds like a bird’s feather yet drives motion
Down
- 1. Specialized tool sharpening teeth of gears, grinding art for smooth hours
- 6. Oscillating orb that keeps rhythm, like a dancer in perpetual motion
- 9. Regulating release found in ancient timekeepers, halting gears with a sly catch
- 11. Repeated sonance heralds the hour—musical signals coded in brass
- 12. Tiny lever that snares escape and tick, critical gatekeeper of time
- 13. A trap for subtlety: hidden gears layered in time’s stratigraphy
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