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Esoteric Horizons of Spanish Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Aztec capital, linked linguistically to Spanish conquest history
- 2. Duplicity or false virtue, a recurring theme in Spanish drama
- 5. Grandiose and imposing, describing architecture or demeanor
- 8. Sound of a sudden mass movement, often of animals or crowds
- 12. Roman name precursor to modern Seville's identity
- 13. Ancient traveler on the Camino de Santiago route
- 14. Traditional Spanish lyric-dramatic musical genre blending song and dialogue
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- 3. Scientific term for light emission without heat
- 4. Mythical fire-breathing creature and metaphor for illusion
- 6. Beetle, famously immortalized in a Beatles song in Spanish
- 7. Pertaining to the heavens, a poetic Spanish adjective
- 9. From the kingdom that birthed the Reconquista elite
- 10. Unexpected twist, often deployed in literature or flamenco
- 11. Majestic Nasrid fortress emblematic of Moorish Spain
- 15. Colonial administrative region governed by a viceroy
- 16. Logical contradiction, a favorite device in Spanish philosophical texts
- 17. Not a Spanish word but a clever false friend in language puzzles
- 18. Elaborate 17th-century style in art and literature
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