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SED NON VENI, VIDI, VICI ^ I'M STUCK ON 13 ACROSS! , Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/latincrosswordsOOprof Latin Crosswords Latin Crosswords Professor Peter Jones and David Dare-Plumpton Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. New York Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 19 West 21st Street New York NY 10010-0605 First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing 2000 Reprinted 2000 Copyright © Peter Jones 2000 Crossword compilation by David Dare-Plumpton All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 0-7867-0760-7 Printed and bound in the EU Contents Foreword vi The Menu vi Puzzles viii Solutions cx Appendix cl Glossary cliv Foreword Plausus has done all the hard work constructing the puzzles. But he is used to it, being a retired Latin teacher and a compiler of crosswords for the London Times “Weekend Listener” and the Sunday Telegraph, and having won Best Crossword ofthe Year (1996) into the bargain. Peter Jones, author of Barnes and Noble’s best-selling Learn Latin and a simple-minded soul, has gasped in amazement at Plausus's ingenuity, inserted the occasional joke, and added other material. Peter Jones Newcastleupon Tyne, UK Plausus (David Dare-Plumpton) Boston, UK September 1999. The Menu Herewith for your entertainment and instruction a feast of fifty Latin Crosswords, all cruciverbally exquisite. They come dew-picked and farm- fresh in all shapes and sizes, tastes, tones, and textures, some rare, others well-done, some flambed, others lightly tossed, some copiously — drizzled in richly aromatic and all the rest of the appalling drivel that passes for menu-talk these days. Well, at least it’s pretentious. Further, to perfect the experience, the puzzles have been tastefully arranged in order of difficulty into five courses, with ten succulent items in each course: Course A: Soup -Facillimum Course B: Fish - Facilius Course C: Meat -Facile Course D: Pudding -Difficilius Course E: Cheese - Difficillimum VI Aids to digestion 1 Most important of all, an asterisk, *, indicates Latin. For example, 2.* means the answer to clue 2. is in Latin; “therefore*” would indicate you need the Latin for “therefore” to complete the clue. 2 A vitamin-enriched Glossary at the back provides hints for those really tricky Latin words or people you may have forgotten. But only to Sections A-D. When you are in Section E, you are on your own. 3 If a crossword is themed, its title may help with some ofthe clues. 4 Notes accompany the solution to each puzzle. 5 We have generally avoided cryptic clues. 6 Where a cryptic clue has been inserted to tickle the palate (about one clue in ten), the purpose is to offer a second, amusing, way into the answer. For example, we may write “I’m a small insect they love*”. The answer is amant (“am ant”, ho-ho). “Roman clothing* for a confused goat” would be toga (“confused” indicating that “goat” is an anagram). And, you will be appalled to hear, so on. So watch out for: (a) Lightly-done, exquisitely herbed anagrams, often signalled by words li]ke “perhaps”, “possibly”, “confused”, “mixed” and so on. Thus: Daughter* I fail possibly = filia. (b) Superbly fragrant homophones, signalled by a word of hearing, e.g. “You, we hear,” would indicate “u”. (c) Gently grilled reverses, indicated by words like “up”, e.g. “Est, if* up” = “is” (Latin “if” being si). 7 A “checked” square is one that, if it cannot be completed by a down clue, can be completed by an across clue (and vice versa). The crosswords are pretty thoroughly “checked”, but where there are “unchecked” letters, we often give extra help (as you will see). 8 Latin U and V are regarded as interchangeable. Thus the “v” ofthe English answer “valetudinarianism” may form the u of a Latin word like sum. 9 There is an appendix on the pronunciation of Latin and the spelling of Greek (p. 150). 10 That’s your lot. Now tuck in. VII Course A: Soup Facillimum ( ) A1 For starters 4. 8. 5. Clues Across 1.79.* Beware of the dog (4, 5) 2.* By way of (3) — 3.* The Latin Eternal City (4) 10*. A small theatre where 6.* Across (5) Horace wrote 14, with 16*. I (3) hesitation? (5) 9. See lac * Love in a backward 12. “Friends, Ro—mans, Eternal City (4) countrymen lend me an 71.4*. A fold, bay or cavity aurem” (3) behind the brain (5) 13. A philosopher with a stiff 9. Her charms bewitched upper lip (5) Odysseus/Ulysses (5) 15. Beware of these, Julius! * “ vidi vicT said , , (4) Julius Caesar afterthe * The Greek Jupiter (4) battle of Zela (4) Clues Down 11. Shepher—d loved by Galatea a close relative, 1.* A stern censor in ragged we hear (4) coat? (4) Poem written by Horace (3) viii