De asino rubos comedente

I'm using some new crossword puzzle software (online, fast, easy) to create new puzzles to go with the new Aesop's fables I'm posting at LatinViaFables.com.

Today's fable at Latin Via Fables is De asino rubos comedente: The Donkey Eating Thistles. You can visit the Latin Via Fables page to see the Latin text, English translation and some grammar help.

Word List. Here is an alphabetical word list of the Latin words included in the puzzle:

ager, asinus, bellaria, canis, caro, cibus, comedere, fortasse, gratus, interim, macellum, messor, occurrere, offa, officina, onustus, panis, pistor, portare, rubus

Click here to get the crossword puzzle to print and fill in.

Click here to get the crossword puzzle solution.

Here are the clues:

ACROSS

2 Workshop, shop
6 Meat
9 Food
11 To eat
13 Dessert, confection
15 Dog
16 To carry
18 Donkey
19 Welcome, pleasing
20 Bread, loaf

DOWN

1 Baker
3 Perhaps
4 Meanwhile
5 Field
7 To run into
8 Harvester, reaper
10 Thistle, bramble
12 Butcher shop
14 Morsel
17 Burdened

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