Zoom in towards cores 14 (top-left panel) and 45 (top-right panel) overlaid on the DCN moment 0 map in the protocluster G333.60. The red ellipses are 2 times the major (minor) FWHM of the continuum cores. In the bottom panels, we show examples of the masks (shaded blue areas) and their respective annulus (for core 14) or crown (for core 45), that is used to estimate the core-averaged, background-subtracted DCN (3-2) spectra. The background annulus is defined as 2-3 times the core major (minor) FWHMs from Louvet et al. (2023), with pixels from overlapping cores being masked out (i.e. the resulting crown in core 45).