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Cryptic Chronicles of Eccentric Festivals
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Across
- 1. Queensland’s surreal cheese-rolling rivalry atop hills
- 2. Sardinian masked herdmen invoking archaic pastoral rites
- 3. Bahamanian kaleidoscopic parade blending history and masquerade
- 4. Pyric effigies ablaze in English midsummer rites
- 6. Spanish solanaceous squabble where civilians turn rouge
- 8. Celtic fusion of fire and fertility on May’s first
- 9. East African festival of rhythmic percussive rites
Down
- 5. Florentine historical football, violent and traditional contest
- 7. Swiss carnival heralding Lent, cloaked in masquerade
- 10. Galician carnal chaos preceding penitential solemnity
- 11. AA Viking torchlit procession marking Shetland’s fiery saga
- 12. Naked Japanese endurance contest for sacred talismans
- 13. Burning anxiety ritual in Santa Fe’s seasonal inferno
- 14. Balinese silence—day of cosmic self-purification and stillness
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- Explore a crossword highlighting unusual and fascinating festivals celebrated in small towns around the world.