| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| base | supporting or carrying ingredient (as of a medicine) |
| wormwoods | A woody shrub with a bitter aromatic taste, used, esp. formerly, as an ingredient of vermouth and absinthe and in medicine |
| wormwood | A woody shrub with a bitter aromatic taste, used, esp. formerly, as an ingredient of vermouth and absinthe and in medicine |
| rotenone | white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous heterocyclic compound, C23H22O6, obtained from derris root: used chiefly as the active ingredient of certain insecticides and in medicine in the treatmen |
