Bread and Circuses

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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Across:

1. One lap of a chariot race
2. Racing companies that furnished the teams of horses and drivers for the chariot races.
5. The smallest circus in ancient Rome
8. The item used to signal the start of the race
10. Goal posts at each end of the dividing wall in a Roman circus
11. The meaning of the word circus
14. Up to the time of Domitian, the number of chariots that could race at one time in the Circus.
15. Starting gates in the Roman circus.
16. Up to the time of Julius Caesar, the number of chariot races run in a single day.
17. The number of laps in a single chariot race

Down:

1. Emperor who erected an obelisk over 200 feet high in the Circus.
2. Second circus built in Rome.
3. The dividing wall in a circus
4. The emperor who separated men and women in the Circus
6. Devices used to count laps in the circus.
7. Name given to the Roman circus's towers and gates because they looked like a walled town.
8. The circus located just outside of Rome on the Appian Way.
9. The finish line in a chariot race.
12. A row of seats in the circus.
13. One of the two hills between which the Circus Maximus was constructed.