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Arcane Rituals and Forgotten Revelries
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Formal ceremonial acts often lost to time and secularism
  • 2. Provencal chain dance obsolete in modern festival culture
  • 4. Old term for agrarian feast marking crop gathering
  • 5. Offering to appease deities, often animal or symbolic
  • 6. Ceremonial crown worn during forgotten coronation feasts
  • 8. Indigenous North Pacific gifting ceremony outlawed historically
  • 10. Ancient midwinter festival now mostly eclipsed by Christmas
  • 14. Celtic festival signaling the boundary of worlds
  • 16. Noisy festivities often suppressed by religious edicts
Down
  • 3. Illuminating objects once central to ancient night processions
  • 7. Old harvest festival named for loaf offerings
  • 9. Study of archaic and ritualistic celebrations
  • 11. Masked ceremonial dance shrouded in medieval secrecy
  • 12. To obscure or veil old festival meanings and origins
  • 13. Elaborate masked ball vanished from early carnival rites
  • 15. Seasonal festivity preceding Lent, with origins fading regionally
  • 17. Pre-Christian solstice rite marked by fire and festivity

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