Easter

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Across
  1. 2. meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked.
  2. 4. a container used to hold or carry things, typically made from interwoven strips of cane or wire.
  3. 6. an oval or round object laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or invertebrate, usually containing a developing embryo.
  4. 7. the action or fact of resurrecting or being resurrected.
  5. 11. the day of the week before Saturday and following Thursday.
  6. 12. a rabbit, especially a young one.
  7. 13. a young sheep.
  8. 14. the period preceding Easter that in the Christian Church is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness.
  9. 15. dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred.
Down
  1. 1. the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  2. 3. a tapering orange-colored root eaten as a vegetable.
  3. 4. a bread roll of various shapes and flavorings, typically sweetened and often containing dried fruit.
  4. 5. an evening meal, typically a light or informal one.
  5. 8. the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November.
  6. 9. the execution of a person by nailing or binding them to a cross.
  7. 10. a public procession, especially one celebrating a special day or event and including marching bands and floats.