Carnival Crossword

3. An annual music competition of Steelbands from Trinidad and Tobago.
8. To spend time relaxing and talking with friends and acquaintances, on the street, in the park or round somebody’s home. It’s informal, light-hearted and often includes drinking.
9. The gyrating of spiraling movement of hips and pelvis in carnival dancing.
10. A musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago.
11. Where pannists come to make contact with other pan players and share their music.
12. In the run up to carnival everyone holds parties, known as jump up with lots of music and opportunities to display the latest moves and with good things to eat and drink.
13. Stilt dancers, an African tradition carried over to Trini carnival their costumes represent jumbies, or spirits, of African mythology.
14. Coming from the French word ‘masquerade‘ a word used for all traditions surrounding costume making and wearing.
15. A collective of people who come together and take to the streets for Carnival

1. In the earliest hours of Monday morning, groups gather at appointed street corners and parks, to set off down the street in darkness to the driving beat of tin cans, bottle and spoon and similar improvised instruments or a small section from a steel band.
2. Venues in which calypso performers perform during the Carnival season.
4. The first day of lent.
5. Coming from the Latin ‘Carne Vale’ farewell to meat before the fast of lent.
6. The Catholic holiday of which the Trinidadian Carnival was celebrated for.
7. The major show on Carnival Sunday night when eight King and eight Queen of the bands costumes (some 30 feet tall) compete on stage to be named King and Queen of Carnival. The eight top singers compete to be crowned the Calypso Monarch.