Nowruz: The Persian New Year

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Across
  1. 2. The minute the sun crosses the _________ is the exact start of the Persian New Year
  2. 3. Persians celebrate this holiday much like every other Persian holiday- with copious amounts of this
  3. 4. The first nowruz celebration was thought to date back to _____ thousand years ago.
  4. 5. The country with the largest Nowruz celebrations and the origin of this celebration of spring
  5. 7. This golden swimmer often appears on the half-sin table to represent moving forward in the new year.
  6. 8. People visit their family and ______ before the new year.
Down
  1. 1. What religion has the closest tie to this celebration?
  2. 3. On the Wednesday before Nowruz, people celebrate the cleansing of a new year by jumping over this natural element
  3. 6. This traditional table name translates to "7 s's", highlighting symbols of nature and a positive new year.