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Arcane Rites and Eccentric Revelries
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Indonesian homeward festival mass exodus pre-Hari Raya
  • 2. Competitive snowball skirmishes from Hokkaido’s winter melee
  • 4. Grimacing contortion contest famed in British eccentric fairs
  • 6. Japanese lantern-lit festival honoring ancestral spirits’ return
  • 8. Venetian masked ball transformed into opulent disguise spectacle
  • 10. Korean mud fest where dermal lore meets hedonistic slurry
  • 11. Pre-Lenten bacchanal of masquerade and baroque excess
  • 13. AA Shetland’s flaming Norse galley procession of Viking reverie
  • 15. Philippine rhythmic dance venerating the Santo Niño
Down
  • 3. Japanese naked festival, a shivering rite of purification
  • 5. Masked players and parodists in old British folk procession
  • 7. Spanish solanum gladiators riot in ripe red combat
  • 9. Latin Christmas Eve feast woven with vibrant cultural rites
  • 12. Bolivian ritualistic combat dance with ancestral significance
  • 14. Mexico’s skeletal iconography in Dia de los Muertos art
  • 16. Sufi dervish dance enacted as a mystic meditation rite
  • 17. Japanese lantern festival famed for ethereal illumination
  • 18. Valencian pyrotechnic effigy conflagration signaling renewal
  • 19. Kyoto’s ancient matsuri blending Shinto rites and tradition

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