Dear members of AW! This is the Saturnalia 2004 Latin Cross Word Puzzle. This contest will start today at 3 pm AWT and you can enter this game until tomorrow the 18th, 10 am AWT. Everyone can enter the solution of the cross word puzzle with as many personae as he/she wishes, but please send one entry per persona. Please send your entries to this email address: tanaquil@ilse.nl. The solution of the cross word puzzle will be posted tomorrow the 18th at 4 pm AWT. There will be prize plaques for the number 1, 2 and 3! These will be handed out on Monday, December 20th.

This cross word puzzle won't be easy, but it's just good fun and worth to give a go at! *s* Good luck, everybody! Let the (cross word) games begin!

LIBRATI (horizontals): 1. The first temple dedicated in Roma - 14. Sixty - 15. Province on the Danubius - 16. Amphora’s handle - 17. You joke (plural) - 19. Interest, gain - 21. You do it for passion - 23. To grip days ago - 24. Hat for the Pontifex Maximus - 27. Elias Balbus - 28. A public council - 29. You have to turn, to upset - 33. Hedgehog - 34. The theme that see - 35. The Rolumus’ one was on Palatinus - 37. Silvia’s name - 39. War chariot - 42. I am - 43. In this way a Roman prays to Ianus - 45. Italic people - 47. The beginning of smile - 48. Deserters - 50. He did it - 52. Erased, deleted.

RECTI (verticals): 1. Homeland of Aeneas - 2. Wife - 3. Racing faction - 4. Soldier of the third line - 5. Pronoun for more than a girl - 6. The repeating prefix - 7. Fulvius Terentius - 8. His - 9. Take - 10. Of the River Tarus - 11. Vanity - 12. The firsts of usurpatio - 13. To sniff - 18. To call-up citizens - 20. Roma - 22. Post Scriptum - 25. But, yet, however - 26. Menelaus’ diphthong - 28. To invent, to made - 29. She paid a tax for cavalry maintenance - 30. The good to be eaten ablative - 31. Conjunction for consonant - 32. You are hungry - 33. To be tomorrow (for him) - 34. I do it speaking Latin - 36. The aunt, sister of the father - 38. For - 39. Plural pronoun - 40. Conjunction - 41. Onethousand - 44. Together - 46. Negative conjunction - 49. Fastus Principio - 50. The beginning of a cat - 51. One hundred.