De Rustico et Aratro Suo

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 Rustico et Aratro Suo: Countryman and Plow. 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:

adesse, aratrum, audire, caelum, equus, flagellare, haerere, humerus, implorare, ineptus, invocare, lutum, mox, profundus, propitius, prosterno, rota, rusticus, statim, vox

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

3 Deep
4 Wheel
5 Upper arm, shoulder
10 Plow
11 To cast down
12 Horse
14 To stick, get stuck
15 To whip
16 On the spot, immediately
18 To be present, attend

DOWN

1 Voice
2 Mud, mire
3 Favorable, gracious
4 Countryman, farmer
6 To hear
7 To call upon, invoke
8 Sky, heaven
9 To beg, beseech
13 Silly, unsuitable
17 Soon, thereupon

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