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Solution to Potions

The Quest Coast

Answer: MOONSHINE
by Mark Halpin

The completed grid is shown below.

1EELGRASSPOETESS
2THEEROPERUGNEXT
3RUNNINGNOTHUREA
4EURUSAORTAMOTET
5LEAPATTONTOHUMS
6ALTUTERUSNASSER
7TONGANEATHEIDEA
8OMANISCANENROLL
9LADISLAVEARPIGS
10AVIANAPPLEJACKS
11TIGHTHOSTCANINE
12VISAVISJODHPURS
13LOGELANSBETONIT
14PIEGOLIATHCARES
15ARMORIALAMIABLE
16STINERESTARTING

In the 1955 movie The Court Jester, Hubert Hawkins must avoid the pellet with the poison that involves a vessel with a pestle, a chalice from a palace, and a flagon with a dragon (clip here).

Flagon answers can be arranged so that their contents show "a flagon with a dragon" (Vermithrax Pejorative)

 M   A R S
VERMITHRAX
PEJORATIVE

Vessel answers can be arranged so that their contents show "a vessel with a pestle" (surikogi). (Note that the two Is are interchangeable.)

JUN GLE 
SURIKOGI

Chalice answers can be arranged so that their contents show "a chalice from a palace" (Versailles). (Note that the repeated letters are interchangeable.)

T O UR    
VERSAILLES

In addition, the cups' contents include the words MARS JUNGLE TOUR. Bruno Mars' third tour was the Moonshine Jungle Tour, so the answer is MOONSHINE.