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Arcane Implements of Torturous Justice
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Metal band that can constrict or protect — here, metaphor for oppressive restraint
- 2. Postmortem public display, turning corpses into macabre warnings
- 4. Punisher supreme, wielding unchallenged power and merciless decree
- 5. Wooden stockade where tongues and reputations were equally shackled
- 7. Subterranean abyss of incarceration, often oubliette-like in cruelty
Down
- 3. Gruesome capital apparatus rotating fate by fragmenting limbs
- 6. Early modern device for verbal condemnation, ironically silent in its metal form
- 8. Punishment administered by stripes, often meted under naval codes
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