Rot & Bloom

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Across
  1. 1. — A creature imagined to live in burial soil
  2. 5. — The remains of a body
  3. 6. — Poisonous plant family
  4. 8. — Dried, diminished
  5. 9. — A curved blade for cutting stalks
  6. 12. — A plant stalk with an empty core
  7. 15. — A fungal “signature” left behind
  8. 20. — A bony shelter for organs
  9. 22. — Decomposition’s harsh phase
  10. 23. — The slow undoing of matter
  11. 25. — Toxic plant linked to folklore
  12. 26. — Damaged by disease
  13. 27. — Underground knots that won’t release
  14. 28. — Rot driven by fungal invasion
  15. 29. — The hidden body of fungus
Down
  1. 2. — Like a vulture, circling endings
  2. 3. — One who feeds on what’s left
  3. 4. — The top portion of a skull
  4. 7. — A gathered stack of bones
  5. 10. — Covered with lichen, aged and wild
  6. 11. — A sharp natural barb
  7. 13. — Inner bone substance
  8. 14. — Dark, sticky plant fluid
  9. 15. — Tool associated with reaping life
  10. 16. — Root with mythic, humanlike shape
  11. 17. — Thorny growth that traps
  12. 18. — “Beautiful lady,” deadly plant
  13. 19. — A lethal plant historically infamous
  14. 21. — Infestation of larvae
  15. 24. — Dead flesh as food