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Instruments of Medieval Agony and Justice
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Macabre cap once used to amplify agony, named for those who pick bones
  • 2. Spinning wheel of suffering, named after a martyr's legend
  • 3. Eponymous device forcibly extending limbs under merciless tension
  • 4. Brutal helmet-like iron cage crushing the visage’s honor
  • 6. Silent strangulation with twisted steel or wire, death by constriction
  • 11. Rare torture involving wheels and piercing spikes, from medieval France
  • 13. Pointed pinnacle of betrayal's seat, impaling with slow justice
  • 16. Suspension torment twisting arms skyward, dislocating with grim precision
  • 17. Enclosed sarcophagus of spikes, a paradox of metal embrace
Down
  • 5. Punishment for nagging, immersing speech in boiling liquid penance
  • 7. Stretching frame that elongates limbs, pulling sinews taut
  • 8. Device that crushes digits, a small but excruciating torment
  • 9. Name blending digit and stretch device to crush and dislocate
  • 10. Punishment pillar for lashes, where flesh meets merciless whip
  • 12. Executing justice by fracturing limbs upon a patterned apparatus
  • 14. Heavy blade descending to split the cranium’s fortress
  • 15. Iron shoe crushing foot bones, a heel of medieval pain
  • 18. Public scorn’s embrace, locking heads and hands in wooden shame
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