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