Romance Around the World

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Across
  1. 3. On June 12, Dia dos Namorados, or Lovers’ Day, is celebrated in ______.
  2. 5. In ______, people celebrate St. Dwynwen's Day instead of Valentine’s Day.
  3. 6. Creamed ______ is traditionally served at Amish weddings.
  4. 10. Puritans used a ______ instead of a wedding ring.
  5. 11. The gift of an intricately carved ______ is a romantic tradition in Wales.
  6. 12. In Fiji, when a man asks his future bride’s parents permission to marry her, he traditionally gives them a ______ whale’s tooth, called a tabua, as a gift.
  7. 14. In Russia, it is important a bouquet has a(n) ______ number of flowers.
  8. 15. The oldest Valentine still around today was written in 1415 by the Duke of ______ to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Down
  1. 1. Cupid was originally a Greek god named ______.
  2. 2. Romantic holidays in South Korea include Valentine’s Day, Black Day, White Day, Kiss Day, and ______ Day.
  3. 4. The company that makes candy hearts originally made ______.
  4. 7. In Croatia, men traditionally proposed with the gift of an apple hiding a ______ within it.
  5. 8. On Valentine’s Day in Denmark, people give each other a flower called ______.
  6. 9. Couples in 1700s New England used a six-foot-long hollow tube, called a ______ Tube, to talk privately while maintaining a supervised proper distance .
  7. 13. ______ Gelasius declared Valentine’s Day to be on February 14.