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Esoteric Rituals and Arcane Festival Lore
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Offering ritual central in ancient and contemporary rites.
  • 2. Traditional English ritual dance often with jingle bells.
  • 3. Scientific term hinting at transformation, metaphor for rites.
  • 4. Medieval Italian horse race where communal pride gallops.
  • 5. Pre-Christian earth worship rituals still echoed in festivals.
  • 6. Seasonal festival marking agrarian cycles with gratitude.
  • 8. Scottish tradition of costumed begging at Samhain.
  • 10. A made-up word puzzle mislead, representing obscure customs.
  • 13. General term, but here marked by carnivalesque oddity.
  • 15. Variant on undead theme, evoking Haitian voodoo customs.
  • 16. Cryptic hint towards a festival involving fire purification.
  • 18. Symbolic figure burned to cleanse or protest in some rites.
Down
  • 7. Stravinsky’s tumultuous ballet named for ancient renewal festivals.
  • 9. Veiled revelry hiding true identities, famously Venetian.
  • 11. Artistic imitation ritualized in performances during celebrations.
  • 12. Intentional misspelled clue to misdirect solvers (nonexistent).
  • 14. Traditional Japanese shout invoked for longevity or victory.
  • 17. Belief system linking clans to ancestral symbols in rites.
  • 19. Shameless trickster’s game often played during solstice feasts.
  • 20. Pre-Lenten jubilation with paradoxical revelry and restraint.

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