De hirundine et aliis aviculis

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 hirundine et aliis aviculis: The Swallow and Other Birds. 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:

audire, avicula, avis, cohabitare, evellere, foedus, garrulus, hirundo, homo, insidiae, irridere, laqueus, linum, monere, rete, seges, serere, suadere, surgere, vocare

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 Little bird
6 Swallow (bird)
7 To sow, plant
9 Trap, ambush
10 Flax
13 To listen to, hear
16 To pluck out, tear out
17 Treaty, agreement
18 To recommend, advise
19 Crop, field

DOWN

1 Bird
3 To live together
4 Person, man
5 To laugh at, ridicule
8 Talkative, noisy
10 Snare, noose
11 To warn, admonish
12 To rise up, spring up
14 To call
15 Net

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