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Fading Ferris and Forgotten Follies
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. A slender wire walk that amazed crowds with balance feats.
  • 2. Once a carnival attraction involving games of chance, now often restricted.
  • 3. A grand fair or festival event often featuring obsolete carnival attractions.
  • 5. Steam-powered musical instrument providing carnival tunes long ago.
  • 7. An attraction capturing instant memories, popular but now less common.
  • 9. Carriages for aerial cable rides in early carnival parks, rarely seen now.
  • 15. A giant rotating wheel once common at fairs, named after its inventor.
Down
  • 4. An attraction where a target is dropped into water, often a promoter or clown.
  • 6. A tricky situation or purposefully confusing scenario attraction involving puzzles or traps.
  • 8. Short form of a classic rotating wooden horse ride now largely replaced.
  • 10. Word historically used to describe rigged or dishonest carnival games.
  • 11. Former water-based game where players attempted to soak targets or guards.
  • 12. A term used for trickery or deceptive sideshow promotions.
  • 13. An old target throwing game where participants tried to hit objects with stones.
  • 14. Sideshows exhibiting unusual or extraordinary human traits, mostly phased out.
  • 16. A fast, spinning ride characterized by sharp, snapping turns.
  • 17. Person who loudly advertises sideshow acts and attractions.
  • 18. Slang for a tricky or unpredictable carnival ride or game.

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