CWA #118 Crossword, and answers to #117

Across

8 Germanic people who settled in the south of France and Spain (8)
9 Chest used for human remains in ancient Greece (6)
10 Andean city that flourished from AD 500 to 900 (10)
11 Roman historian born around 60 BC (4)
12 Epoch preceding the Oligocene (6)
14 One of the seven hills of Rome (8)
15 Stage of the North European Pleistocene (7)
17 Spanish city with a well-preserved Roman aqueduct (7)
20 Iron Age tribe of central England (8)
22 Neolithic site near Volos in northern Greece (6)
23 English city known to the Romans as Aquae Sulis (4)
24 Anglo-Saxon king, the first to be baptised a Christian (10)
26 Literary term for Great Britain or England (6)
27 Post-Classic Stage Mexican society whose capital was Tzintzuntzan (8)

Down

1 Fortified settlement in south-western Corsica (8)
2 ___ Cave, Sarawak, a site showing occupation from the Palaeolithic until AD 1000 (4)
3 Roman poet whose works include Ars Poetica (6)
4 Mexican state containing the Maya site at Palenque (7)
5 Epoch following the Miocene (8)
6 Megalithic structures made of three stones (10)
7 Bronze Age culture of Hungary (6)
13 Greek goddess of childbirth (10)
16 Confederation of Germanic tribes (8)
18 Member of an ancient people of the Balkans (8)
19 Extinct Indo-European language of Asia Minor (7)
21 A famous one could be found at Delphi (6)
22 Egyptian ruler of the 4th Dynasty (6)
25 ___ Barrow, burial site south-west of Stonehenge (4)

For answers to #118, see the next issue.

Answers to Crossword #117

Across: 7 Potatoes, 9 Coedes, 10 Iceni, 11 Atalanta, 12 Tikal, 13 Atwater, 16 Knossos, 18 Java Man, 20 Hupa-Iya, 21 Oscan, 25 Ramesses, 26 Irish, 27 Seneca, 28 Megalith.

Down: 1 Louisiana, 2 Naveta, 3 Doric, 4 Scramasax, 5 De Valera, 6 Vesta, 8 Sparta, 14 Jogassian, 15 Malachite, 17 Stukeley, 19 Gypsum, 22 Shield, 23 Satet, 24 Ridge.