Inca Words and Andean Culture

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• ___ Raymi, the great June festival celebrated at Cuzco (4)
• Corn-based brew served at Inca feasts (6)
• Rows of pipes of different lengths make up this Andean wind instrument (7)
• Creator deity said to have emerged from Lake Titicaca (9)
• Notched Andean flute traditionally made from cane (5)
• Sacred Andean site or object believed to hold spiritual power (5)
• Quechua name for the tuber that became french fries (4)
• Domesticated Andean camelid prized for its soft fleece (6)

Down

• Crescent-bladed ceremonial knife associated with ancient Peru (4)
• Andean music and dance genre typically set to a lively duple rhythm (6)
• Traditional Andean kinship group that shared land and duties (5)
• Quechua drama about a general's forbidden love for an Inca princess (8)
• Andean Mother Earth honored with offerings to the land (9)
• Wild highland camelid whose exceptionally fine fleece was reserved for Inca royalty (6)
• Andean tuber also called the New Zealand yam (3)

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