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Arcane Olympic Oddities and Antiquities
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Mallet sport aligned with aristocratic leisure; Olympic oddity of the past
- 2. Not an Olympic staple but related to racquet sports with complex splines
- 3. Handball cousin contested with leather gloves in past British Olympic games
- 4. Historic term referencing the surface where a lost croquet-like game thrived
- 6. Multi-discipline event blending swordplay, equestrian skill, and marksmanship
- 10. Medieval missile weapon once symbolized precision in early Olympic archery
- 11. Diamond sport irregularly spotlighted in global Olympic schedules
- 14. An American croquet variant, briefly a 1904 Olympic footnote
Down
- 5. Early 20th-century event that tested marksmanship on live flying targets
- 7. Silent descent into water; a judged Olympic diving discipline of yore
- 8. Obscure term linked to ice sledge hockey’s ancestral disciplines
- 9. Ancient contest of tensile strength once tugged into the Olympic spotlight
- 12. A hybrid upon which violent bouncing meets precision, old Olympic variant
- 13. Native American stickball once wielded in Olympic turf battles
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