Tubicen captivus

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 Tubicen captivus: The Captive Trumpeter. 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:

bellum, cantus, captivus, concitare, esse, excors, hostis, inermis, inimicus, mori, noster, orare, pugna, quia, sic, totum, tu, tuba, tubicen, vulnerare

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Click here to get the crossword puzzle solution.

Here are the clues:

ACROSS

4 Fight, battle
7 Completely, entirely
10 Enemy, stranger
12 Trumpeter
14 Harmless, unarmed
16 To be
17 To stir up, excite
18 You
19 Thus
20 To beg, ask

DOWN

1 Because
2 Song, music
3 Witless, silly
5 War-trumpet
6 To die
8 To wound
9 War, fighting
11 Enemy, hostile
13 Prisoner, captive
15 Our

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