Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Intricate Timekeeping Terms Revealed
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 1. Action of sounding the hour on bells
- 2. Support holding a pendulum in place
- 5. Decorative plate around a clock’s winding hole
- 8. Precision clock designed for accuracy
- 10. Type of escapement shaped like a boat’s device
- 11. Interlocking wheels transferring motion inside a clock
- 13. Regular tick-tock interval in a clock’s movement
- 14. Term referring to the escapement’s function
Down
- 3. Face of a clock showing the time
- 4. Mechanism that advances the gear train intermittently
- 6. Weighted swinging rod regulating clocks
- 7. Coiled spring providing power in mechanical clocks
- 9. Specific model or design of a clock movement
- 12. Oscillating part controlling time in watches
- 15. Tool or knob to tighten the mainspring
- 16. Sound produced by bells marking the hour
- 17. Base holding the clock’s internal parts together
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