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Additional hints can be found in the Global Glossary and on the following My Word! pages: Roman Dinner Parties, Roman Dining, Roman Food and Drink and Symposium Terms.

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October crossword puzzle

Across

1 sweet wine sauce that is made by boiling wine until it is thick
5 a drink made by mixing wine, water and spices that was usually served hot in the winter
7 Roman sausage served over pottage
9 the Athenian general of an expedition against Sicily as well as a character in Plato's Symposium
10 to cook
12 a fish
13 a light breakfast of bread and fruit
14 a Greek comic playwright who wrote the Acharnians, the Lysistrata and The Clouds
17 a dining room that could hold up to three couches
20 a priestess who talked about love in Plato's Symposium
21 the main course in a Roman meal that could be meats and vegetables
24 dinner
25 a Roman staple meal that was ground grain made into a paste
26 love
27 honeyed wine that was a very popular Roman drink
28 to eat
29 a cake made from cheese, flour and eggs

Down

2 an Athenian sophist who was a main character in Plato's works
3 a sauce made from salty fish
4 sweet wine reduced to half its original volume
6 a couch used in a dining room that could hold up to three people
8 the sweet course in a Roman meal
11 an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre
15 a porridge made from ground wheat
16 grain
18 getting together with friends for a meal
19 a napkin
21 to chew
22 a dinner party, also the title of a work by Plato in which the main characters discuss love
23 lunch

 

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