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VENI, VIDI, VICI
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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)
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