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Esoteric Rites and Arcane Revelries
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Medieval French ritual land of strange dance ceremonies
  • 2. To sculpt a symbolic figure for ritual burning, often in cultural upheavals
  • 5. Traditional figure bearing the community’s sins, driven out in festal purgation
  • 8. Spain’s umami-fueled carnival showering participants with lycopene-rich missiles
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  • 3. Elaborate Japanese festival performative art combining dance and narrative
  • 4. Ceremonial procession of illuminating devices symbolizing guidance through darkness
  • 6. Zulu harvest festival featuring ritualistic masquerades and ancestral homage
  • 7. An archaic broom dance performed to exorcise malevolent spirits
  • 9. Processional entourage often laden with esoteric symbolism in celebratory rites

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