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Infernal Instruments of Medieval Retribution
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Iron muzzle to silence impertinent tongues in Tudor England
- 2. Banished from native lands, ancient sovereign sentence
- 5. Ancient surgical punishment opening the skull's sanctum
- 7. Stretching device to extract confessions under agony
- 10. Run the ___: a humiliating and painful physical trial of soldiers
- 11. Repeated strikes of the lash as punitive penance
- 14. Wooden contraption for public humiliation—heads and hands secured
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- 3. Obscure term for binding or chaining felons in courts
- 4. Wooden posts confining miscreants, early penal enclosure
- 6. Not just a siege engine—sometimes a metaphor for harsh laws
- 8. Instrument of scourging, whipping for penitential or punitive use
- 9. Punishment device for verbal offenders, a bridle of shame
- 12. Ecclesiastical punishment condemning to spiritual damnation
- 13. Grisly method of execution popularized by Vlad the Impaler
- 15. Ancient corporal punishment with lash or rod
- 16. Subterranean incarceration often meted to political prisoners
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