Archaeology Crosswords: The Minotaur © K. Kris Hirst

Across

1. Abates
6. What a Tholos is
10. The elixir of early mornings
14. Drink noisily from your libation jug
15. Gather or smooth
16. Somewhat
17. Ceramic ware used in Minoan architecture
19. Stubborn beast
20. Prior to
21. Writer Philip
22. What the Minotaur was?
24. Occupations layers
26. What you might find decorating a Mycenaean stirrup jar
28. Grate
30. What a single gets
34. Lath
37. That would be wrong, civilly
39. Waterfall (obsolete)
40. Nearby
41. Scorpion bite
43. Today's name for what was the Elamite state when Akrotiri was inhabited
44. French love?
46. Off-broadway award
47. Pacific beverage
48. Organized persecutions
50. Etzel
52. Form of communication
54. Folk singer for 58 Across?
58. Who used the abundant loom weights found at Akrotiri
61. Atop
63. Size, abbrev.
64. Region
65. Minoan fresco found on a Theran wall
68. ---- Gate, one of the entrances to Mycenae
69. Diving bird
70. Home of the Buccaneers
71. Curved glass
72. Time long past
73. Rash

Down

1. Park in Colorado
2. Watchful
3. More certain
4. To be human?
5. What Plato may have used as a model for Atlantis' government
6. Gait
7. Vows of fealty
8. Ctr. place, but not in Knossos
9. Alexandria's lighthouse
10. Egyptologist who mentioned Atlantis to 25 down
11. Border against
12. Man to call when you've a leak in your old field house?
13. Sun god, although certainly not of Atlanteans
18. One advantage the Cycladic islands had for sustaining trade in the Aegean
23. Something jealously guarded by every culture in the Aegean (abbrev)
25. Excavator of Knossos
27. Minoan Athena
29. Town in Brazil; in 1650 the largest town in South America
31. Emanation
32. Eastern European
33. One of the volcanoes that erupted during Bronze Age times
34. Break suddenly
35. Modern car for Minos?
36. Eager
38. Tease
42. Takes the bus
45. Founded by the Etruscans, some 700 years after Thera blew its stack
49. Like a Minoan stone vase
51. Minoan foot
53. Pyramid commissioned by Amenhotep III when Minoan culture flourished
55. Latches on, as Atlantis attempted to do to Athens
56. Country of the Rekhmire Tomb, where Minoan frescoes were found
57. Repeat
58. What ashlar is for
59. Lake or canal
60. Period of time, usually shorter than it takes to finish a PhD thesis in archaeology
62. Ache for
66. Winner in tic-tac-toe
67. Sheepish comment


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