De cicada et formica

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 cicada et formica: Grasshopper and Ant. 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:

aestas, antrum, bruma, cantare, cicada, dum, egere, famelicus, formica, granum, hiems, laborare, mendicare, messis, renuere, reponere, segnis, trahere, venire, victus

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

5 Cave, hole
6 Winter solstice, cold
7 To drag, pull
9 While
13 Sluggish, lazy
15 To come
17 To refuse
18 To work, toil
19 Hungry, starving
20 Summer

DOWN

1 Food, nourishment
2 Winter
3 Cricket, grasshopper
4 To sing
8 To restore, store
10 To beg
11 Ant
12 To lack, be in need
14 Grain, seed
16 Harvest, crop

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