Leo et Ursus

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 Leo et Ursus: Lion and Bear. 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:

dicere, etiam, fugere, furax, graviter, hinnulus, iacere, interea, laborare, leo, miser, pugna, quia, rapere, simul, surgere, ursus, vertigo, videre, vulpes

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

6 Also, even
7 Thieving, thievish
8 To see
10 To work, toil
11 To flee, run away
12 Whirling, dizziness
15 Meanwhile
18 Lion
19 Fawn, roebuck
20 To rise up

DOWN

1 To say
2 To lay, be lying
3 At the same time
4 Fight, struggle
5 Because
9 To seize, snatch
13 Heavily, seriously
14 Wretched, poor
16 Fox
17 Bear, he-bear

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