Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Arcane Revelries and Masquerade Mystiques
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 2. Decorative chains that hang exuberantly, transforming carnival spaces
- 3. Elegant disguise ball, cloaking identity with flamboyant finery and secrets
- 5. Caribbean spectral figure used to embody fear and thrilling suspense
- 7. Witty humor or jesting characteristic of carnival jester’s craft
- 9. Latin root of carnival, evoking farewell to flesh and festivity
- 11. To hesitate unusually—apt for performers wary of carnival’s chaotic flow
- 12. Tamil festival tradition blending water fights with symbolic cleansing
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- 1. Crafted figures burned or paraded; carnival’s symbolic scapegoats
- 4. German term for nocturnal festivities, key in certain European carnival rites
- 6. Spanish-influenced swirling dance, integral to certain carnival street rituals
- 8. Pertaining to absurd imitation, frequent in carnival satire performances
- 10. Name echoing a famed straight but here a twisting carnival street spectacle
- 13. Obscure Nepalese tradition involving effigy processions at carnival climax