Herbaceously Yours : The Solution

Herbaceously Yours

Copyright © 2003, James T. Ehler (published with permission.)

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2. Aromatic daisy-like flower used to make hot beverages and shampoos.
5. Agrimony genus plant used in the French liqueur Arquebuse.
7. Liquorice-flavored seeds or oil used in cookies and cakes.
8. Salvia species.
10. Small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves.
11. Aromatic bitter herb used in candy and cough lozenges.
15. Licorice.
17. Dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds.
18. A plant of the genus Actaea having conspicuous, acrid, poisonous berries.
19. Aromatic fresh or dried gray-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats, fowl and game.
20. Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather.
21. Poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers
22. Yarrow, field hop, old man's pepper, soldier's woundwort, thousand-seal.

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1. Narrow-leaved green herbage used by grazing animals.
2. Good in sauerkraut, bread and soft cheese spreads.
3. Spanish missionaries marked the Mission Trail in California with these pungent seeds.
4. 250,000 'threads' to the pound.
6. Reddish fleshy growth that covers another round spice.
9. Deadly poison used in arrows.
10. Lemon, Bee or Gilead?
12. Named after its edicinal use for disorders of the eye.
13. Hallucinogenic in excess; prison inmates' special?
14. Candy and 'dough' manufacturing both alike?
16. Pot marjoram.

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Down and Across : A Wobbly Old Time

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1. Popular carbonated beverage.
4. A polite drink.
7. French syrup.
8. Robust red "masculine" Bordeaux.
15. Important red Bordeaux.
17. Hot or cold alcoholic drink containing beaten egg.
18. Aromatic blackcurrant liqueur.
19. "The milk of our Lady."
22. Liquor and water with sugar and spices served hot.
23. Greek wine flavored with resin.
24. Partly fermented grape juice.

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1. Tea.
2. City southeast of Turin noted for its sparkling wines.
3. Found in combination with:: water, oil, attar, hips.
5. Turkish brandy.
6. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. Part of Poe tale title.
10. Wine, spiced with sugar, lemons and nutmeg, named for an English army officer.
11. Spanish city, grape, wine, and raisin.
12. Original version of a British citrus drink.
13. Whiskey, bitters and sugar with fruit slices.
14. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum, peach or apricot kernels and/or almonds.
16. Distilled French wine.
20. Chief ingredient of black bread.
21. Booze slang adapted from small Alaskan Tlingit tribe, the Hutsnuwu.
22. High, Irish or breakfast.
23. Popular Caribbean alcoholic beverage.