COTTON
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Clues, out of order
________ & COTTON
COTTON ________, carnival treat
COTTON ________, grocery story purchase
2003 hit by COTTON, not Poison
Add an N to COTTON and anagram to get something beneath you
Add a word before COTTON to get a deli offering
Change one letter in COTTON to get a mixer
Holiday featuring lots of COTTON
COTTON is a type of ________
Signature fruit of COTTON
Small, circular, green slices you might put atop COTTON
Term for wedges of COTTON
About this Raddle
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794, a landmark for American manufacturing (and a blessing to crossword constructors, who love to include ELI). The “gin” of a cotton gin is a shortening of “engine.” Hand-cranked cotton gins worked by straining fibers through mesh, speeding up the rate of cotton production. Unfortunately, because the machine allowed for more efficient processing of cotton, it strengthened the demand for slave labor across the American South.