Day of the Dead Crossword Puzzles

Light a candle and follow the marigold path with Day of the Dead crossword puzzles. Test your knowledge of ofrendas, pan de muerto, papel picado, sugar skulls, La Catrina, Pixar's Coco, and celebrations from Lake Pátzcuaro to Oaxaca.

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About Day of the Dead Crosswords

These Day of the Dead crossword puzzles explore Mexico's Día de Muertos, when families welcome the departed home. Clues cover ofrendas with marigolds, copal, salt and papel picado, foods from pan de muerto and mole to champurrado and alfeñique, La Catrina and José Guadalupe Posada, Pixar's Coco, and celebrations in Janitzio, Mixquic and Oaxaca. Easier grids stick to altars, candles and family traditions; harder ones reach into Mictlán, Mexica beliefs and UNESCO recognition.

Interesting Facts

1.UNESCO proclaimed Mexico's Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead a masterpiece of intangible heritage in 2003, and in 2008 inscribed it on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
2.The marigold on Day of the Dead altars, Tagetes erecta, is called cempasúchil in Mexico, from the Nahuatl cempohualxochitl, meaning 'twenty flower'. It is native to Mexico and Central America and is also known as flor de muertos.
3.José Guadalupe Posada's zinc etching of an elegantly hatted female skeleton, usually dated around 1910 to 1912, satirized upper-class women of the Porfiriato. In 1946 and 1947 Diego Rivera painted her as a full-length figure in his mural Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central.
4.Mexico City held its first Day of the Dead parade on October 29, 2016. It was inspired by the opening scene of the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, which showed a parade that did not yet exist.
5.Pixar's Coco won two Academy Awards at the 90th Oscars on March 4, 2018: Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for 'Remember Me', written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

Day of the Dead Puzzles

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Day of the Dead: History from Aztec Roots to UNESCO Recognition

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Day of the Dead: Celebrations Across the Regions of Mexico

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Day of the Dead: Symbols and Their Meanings

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Day of the Dead: Traditional Foods and Drinks

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Day of the Dead: Calaveras, Sugar Skulls and La Catrina

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Day of the Dead: Pixar's Coco and the Land of the Dead

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Day of the Dead: Marigolds, Candles and Papel Picado

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Day of the Dead: Ofrendas and Home Altars

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