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Arcane Reveries of Lost Celebrations
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Festival once timed by celestial conjunctions, now forgotten (9)
  • 2. Festival of lights historically used to ward off shadows (9)
  • 3. Obscure Roman rural festival invoking rustic deities (9)
  • 7. Ancient Greek fest honoring the god of wine and ecstasy (8)
  • 8. Latin root for a spring equinox celebration (8)
  • 10. Ritual reenactment technique central to an archaic festivity (7)
  • 13. Harvest festival derived from ancient agrarian rites (6)
Down
  • 4. Lost festival name possibly meaning ‘Earth’s embrace’ in ancient tongue (8)
  • 5. Celtic boundary festival marking the thinning veil between worlds (6)
  • 6. Hellenic seat of sacred rites in archaic ceremonies (8)
  • 9. Ancient solstice rites celebrated with sacred fires (8)
  • 11. Astronomical moment marking ancient midwinter revels (8)
  • 12. Nocturnal festivity characterized by wild merrymaking (7)
  • 14. Latin term implying a solemn religious festival (6)

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