Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Global Festivities and Symbols
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Latin American rite of passage, celebrant's fifteenth milestone
- 2. Shetland fire festival invoking Viking ancestral memory
- 3. Vietnamese New Year rooted in lunar-solar cycles
- 7. Festival named for rosy sunrise on alpine peaks
- 9. Celtic fire festival marking liminal harvest thresholds
- 10. Japanese rite illuminating ancestral spirits mid-summer
- 11. Illuminative artifacts central to East Asian night parades
- 12. Etymologically linked to 'farewell to meat' pre-Lent
- 14. Festival of lights symbolizing triumph in Hindu cosmology
- 16. Chromatic celebration with origins tied to divine lore
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- 4. Mexican syncretic festival honoring departed souls annually
- 5. Masked festivity derived from Venetian aristocratic tradition
- 6. Spanish celebration involving massed solanaceous projectile assault
- 8. Northern European eve named after a saint, mingled with witchcraft
- 13. French for 'Fat Tuesday,' marking indulgence before abstinence
- 15. Japanese poetic custom of blossoming cherry tree reverence
- 17. Storming event now commemorated with festive fervor in France
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