Across
- 3. most valuable cash crop grown in the village
- 5. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite
- 7. exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words
- 9. Main Character
- 12. daughter to his second wife
- 14. masquerader who impersonates one of the ancestral spirits of the village
- 15. after the colonial ruling
- 17. anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign
- 18. Father
- 20. food used to greet visitors and guests
- 23. a representative sent on a mission or errand:
- 24. Elders
- 26. Personal God
- 27. outcast (Having been dedicated to a god, the osu was taboo and not allowed to mix with the freeborn in any way.)
Down
- 1. having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent
- 2. the act of expressing grief, sorrow, and/or regret
- 4. a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use
- 6. used or shared in common by everyone in a group
- 8. feeble or weak in body or health, especially because of age; ailing
- 10. A country in west Africa
- 11. first wife
- 13. the act of consoling; comfort; solace
- 15. Before the colonial ruling
- 16. changeling; a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn
- 19. fermented palm sap used for celebration and ceremony
- 21. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of; to fake
- 22. to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate; annoy
- 25. the village green where assemblies for sports, discussions, and so on take place