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Arcane Idiomatic Enigmas Across Cultures
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Across
- 1. Hebrew phrase meaning ‘repairing the world,’ a moral idiom (10)
- 2. Old Icelandic metaphor for a wise but peculiar elder figure (7)
- 3. Italian idiom involving a tuneful chicken's disarray (8)
- 4. Idiomatic Creole term implying a tangled or complicated matter (6)
- 8. Japanese term for sunlight filtering through leaves, metaphorically elusive (8)
Down
- 5. German joy from others' misfortune, an obscure emotional idiom (12)
- 6. Swedish concept condensing coffee break into a cultural idiomatic ritual (4)
- 7. Yiddish mild oath expressing surprise or frustration (8)
- 9. Latin American idiom for a coarse, ground meal; figuratively ‘the basics’ (7)
- 10. French theatrical expletive before Ernest’s famous outburst (6)
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