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Esoteric Rituals and Peculiar Festival Lore
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Traditional Finnish folk masked effigies signaling winter's end
  • 2. Obscure tantric deity honored with beheading and blood rite
  • 3. Norwegian coastal voyage coinciding with solstice celebrations
  • 4. Medieval fire-tossing custom igniting nocturnal revelry
  • 7. Running with the bulls through Navarra's labyrinthine streets
  • 9. Tanzania isle where the Mwaka Kogwa ritual cleanses past quarrels
  • 11. Urban nocturne with museums open and streets aglow till dawn
  • 14. Indigenous ceremony combining mimicry and ancestral storytelling
  • 17. Seasonal bacchanal preceding austerity, masked in allegory
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  • 5. Mexican remembrance blending skulls, marigolds, and ancestral invocation
  • 6. Festival of light heralding victory, with ancestral pyrotechnics
  • 8. Icelandic Christmas eve’s literary flood and gift exchange
  • 10. Southeast Asian water baptism signaling renewal and cleansing
  • 12. Unlikely namesake for a New Orleans night of masked debauchery
  • 13. Nevada's ephemeral metropolis ignites with radical expression
  • 15. Self-flagellation ritual practiced in some Holy Week festivities
  • 16. Alpine anti-Saint Nicholas with a penchant for fright
  • 18. Buñol's annual fruit battle with splashy, pulpy consequences

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