Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Arcane Rites and Forgotten Feasts
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Ancient Greek festivity celebrating god of wine
- 2. Roman funeral feast honoring the deceased
- 3. Material burned in an infamous pagan effigy
- 5. New Mexican effigy burned to dispel gloom
- 6. Ancient Roman priestess guarding eternal flame
- 8. Slavic harvest festival with ritual offerings
- 9. Peruvian ritual where grievances are settled through combat
- 14. Ethiopian Epiphany water blessing ceremony
Down
- 4. Japanese festival honoring ancestral spirits
- 7. Intentionally misleading - not related to festivals
- 10. Roman midwinter revel, masters served by slaves
- 11. Scottish New Year's Eve celebration with torchlight parades
- 12. Celtic fire festival marking end of harvest
- 13. Japanese fertility shrine festival involving an iron phallus
- 15. Ancient ritual invoking the god of war
- 16. North African festival symbolizing transition from Passover pain to joy
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