Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Alchemical Herb Lore and Remedies
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Topical agent causing redness, warmth from nature’s pharmacy
- 2. Alcohol-based extract that’s anything but plain 'paint'
- 3. Gilded resin prized since antiquity, fragrant and healing
- 5. Stopping the flow – what herbal compounds intriguingly aid
- 7. Clue in remedy: deadly yet combated by herbal means
- 10. Steeping method that entwines leaves like a secret
- 12. Roman cure-all flower for sleepless nights and stomach woes
- 14. Poisonous plant with paradoxical medicinal history
Down
- 4. Treatment using plants to bring relief, from ancient tongues
- 6. Old-time pharmacist's store for botanical tinctures
- 8. Oil extracted to the core — nature’s concentrated whisper
- 9. Soothing effect of salves, from resin’s aromatic embrace
- 11. Sticky sap and oils combined, secrets trapped in tree blood
- 13. Poultice applied to soothe wounds, a plaster’s cousin
- 15. Boiled botanical brew, distilled wisdom from roots and bark
- 16. Water lily genus masking sedative lore beneath its petals
- 17. Nitrogenous compound, potent and bitter, found in many blooms
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