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Obsolete Quills and Ancient Stylus Lore is a hard crossword puzzle with 12 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Obsolete Quills and Ancient Stylus Lore
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- 1. Tiny feather offshoot used historically for delicate writing
- 3. Medieval portable ink containers, essential to scribes’ craft
- 4. Not just for strings—obsolete pen shaped from a quill's tip
- 6. Reed pen ancestor noted by Romans, hollow and scribed
- 9. Manuscript or writing artifact, evoking forgotten pen eras
- 12. Victorian small case carrying writing tools, hinting luxury
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- 2. Roman writing implement that incised wax-coated tablets
- 5. Obscure 19th-century inkless pen named after sapphire’s hue
- 7. Early flexible chalk-based marking tool, precursor to wax crayons
- 8. Rigid pen part once prized for steel delicacy and flow
- 10. Engraving tool doubling as ancient script inscriber
- 11. Latin root for feather pen, origin of feathered scribe lore
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