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Forgotten Tortures and Ancient Penalties
Explore a challenging crossword featuring infamous historical punishments and methods of justice from the past.
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Across
- 1. Severe whipping as corporal punishment
- 2. Wooden framework used to publicly expose offenders' heads and hands
- 6. Medieval torture device shaped like a sarcophagus with spikes
- 9. Dark prison cell used for long-term confinement
- 11. Structure for hanging condemned criminals
- 13. Wooden frame locking feet, often used for public humiliation
- 14. Marked with a hot iron as a form of punishment
- 16. A metal muzzle used to punish speech
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- 3. Staring in public as a form of social punishment
- 4. Punishment involving lashes delivered by a whip
- 5. Post used to tie criminals for flogging
- 7. Medieval rack stretching body in torture
- 8. Divided into four parts as a gruesome execution method
- 10. Punishment for nagging women, often via branks or stocks
- 12. To confine someone in jail or prison
- 15. Infliction of pain to extract information or punishment
- 17. Part of 'hanged, drawn, and quartered'—to drag a prisoner
- 18. Forcing someone to live away from their homeland
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