CWA #123 crossword, and answers to crossword #122

This article is from World Archaeology issue 123

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Across

5 Egyptian falcon-headed god also known as Horus (8)
8 Roman goddess of the dawn (6)
9 English river taking its name from the Old English for ‘winding’ (6)
10 Spanish cave system containing Palaeolithic art (8)
11 Building in Oxford housing varied collections of art and archaeology (9,6)
12 Family of languages of north-west North America (6)
14 Naval battle fought off Greece in 31 BC (6)
18 Palaeolithic communities of south-central Siberia (8,7)
22 ___ Games, ancient festival held in honour of Poseidon (8)
23 Ancient kingdom of the Caucasus (6)
24 Feddersen ___, German site occupied from the 1st to 5th centuries AD (6)
25 Mediterranean island group, location of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Delos (8)

Down

1 Name used by all but one of the pharaohs of the 20th Dynasty (8)
2 ___ Tradition, North American archaeological culture first discovered in New Mexico (6)
3 Tribe of one-eyed people in Greek mythology whose name purportedly derives from Scythian (8)
4 Kingdom established in Eastern Anatolia c.835 BC (6)
6 One of the legendary founders of Rome (7)
7 Beetle regarded as sacred in ancient Egypt (6)
8 Mesopotamian goddess of the sky (5)
13 Ancient breed of cattle originally used as a draught animal (8)
15 Monastic order founded in France in AD 910 (7)
16 ___’s Hole, a medieval tunnel beneath Nottingham Castle (8)
17 Site in Brittany with a huge number of Neolithic megaliths (6)
19 Type of coal resembling charcoal (6)
20 Fruit tree cultivated in the Mediterranean from the 3rd millennium BC (5)
21 Native of a Greek city in Boeotia, destroyed by Alexander in 335 BC (6)

For answers to #123, see next issue.

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Answers to Crossword #122

Across: 6 Habilis, 8 Linear A, 10 Palaeocene, 11 Apse, 12 Laconian, 13 Niello, 14 Naas, 16 Accra, 17 Apet, 19 Petrie, 21 Ethiopia, 24 Zemi, 25 Trilithons, 26 Legions, 27 Elamite.

Down: 1 Hakataya, 2 Tivoli, 3 Hibernia, 4 De Valera, 5 Erosal, 7 Idaho, 9 Sennacherib, 15 Sardinia, 16 Aventine, 18 Ebionite, 20 Exeter, 22 Haisla, 23 Ogham.