Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Cryptic Shells and Icy Tidal Forces
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Pertaining to water, Cloyster’s natural habitat
- 2. Jointed-limbed ocean dweller with a hard shell
- 4. Easily broken hardness trait of icy carapace
- 5. Damage from cold, reflecting Cloyster’s chill powers
- 6. Open sea dwelling, far from shores
- 7. Soft tissue producing the shell’s substance
- 10. To solidify, as Cloyster’s shell does under attack
- 13. Sweet liquid, a cryptic reverse hint to ocean’s bounty
- 16. Protective casing akin to Cloyster’s defense
- 19. Characterized by sharp protrusions, like Cloyster’s armor
Down
- 3. Snowstorm akin to Cloyster’s icy breath
- 8. Watery force influencing Cloyster’s domain
- 9. External support structure, cloaking marine defenders
- 11. Resounding outcry or noisy disturbance, echoing ocean waves
- 12. Surface ice loss, ironic opposite of Cloyster’s frost
- 14. Marine mollusk housing spiral treasures
- 15. Pearl-like iridescent sheen inside shells
- 17. Class of mollusks Cloyster belongs to
- 18. Long narrow opening, similar to shell cracks