Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Arcane Apparatus and Acts of Vintage Circus
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 2. Commander of the spectacle inside the big top.
- 3. Body bending act defying anatomical limits.
- 4. Vintage performer’s musket props, theatrical and loud.
- 7. Chronicle of classic jesters’ antics and lore.
- 9. Blazing ring to leap through; a fiery trial.
- 10. Dominion over the king of beasts under canvas.
- 11. Curated collection of exotic beasts beneath stripes.
- 14. Term for trained animals with cloven feet on stage.
- 15. To entangle like the famed Zanzibar net trick act.
Down
- 1. Artful manipulation of objects in midair.
- 5. State essential for tightrope walkers’ mastery.
- 6. Human projectile launched in stunts of audacity.
- 8. Puppets used in motley performances and vaudeville.
- 12. Aerial swinger’s horizontal bar of daring.
- 13. Slender pathway requiring nerve and balance.
- 16. Giant serpent often exoticized in sideshows.
- 17. Subtle trick disrupting an act’s flawless flow.