For Dad, Christmas 2022

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Across
  1. 3. Language spoken by the Samnites (5)
  2. 5. Only female judge of Israel, with a song named after her (7)
  3. 6. Once the largest city in the world, it was sacked and razed at the end of the seventh century BC. (7)
  4. 8. The best Roman wine. (9)
  5. 10. Sicily’s worst governor. (6)
  6. 19. Daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas. (7)
  7. 20. Christian apologist, advisor to Constantine and tutor to his son Crispus (9)
  8. 22. Co-consul of Cicero and uncle of Mark Antony (7)
  9. 23. Worn by those running for public office; rubbed with chalk. (4, 7)
  10. 24. responsible for maintenance of public buildings and festivals; an expensive job on the ladder. (6)
  11. 26. Castor’s twin. (6)
  12. 28. Octavian banned shrines to her inside the pomerium following Actium. (4)
  13. 30. The Great Mother (5,5)
  14. 32. River into the underworld that caused forgetfulness. (5)
  15. 33. Carried out of Troy. (8)
Down
  1. 1. Queen with statues in Colchester, London and Cardiff. (8)
  2. 2. David’s son (7)
  3. 4. Second century Latin playwright (7)
  4. 7. Ancient name for the Black Sea. (6,3)
  5. 9. They lived in Petra (9)
  6. 11. Not Charybdis (6)
  7. 12. Created the philosophy of pleasure (8)
  8. 13. Roman statesman who kept leaving his plough for the dictatorship (11)
  9. 14. Belief developed by Plotinus, following Plato (12)
  10. 15. Caesar was ransomed by pirates for ___ talents.(5)
  11. 16. One of five Spartan magistrates. (5)
  12. 17. Chief muse (8)
  13. 18. Greek open space and meeting place (5)
  14. 21. People took off their coats to stone him. (2, 7)
  15. 22. Cronus’ eldest and goddess of the hearth. (6)
  16. 25. Father of Roman poetry, only surviving in fragments (6)
  17. 27. Only gospel who refers to the Magi at the nativity (7)
  18. 29. Egyptian god of war and brother of Osiris (3)
  19. 31. Roman drink of wine and honey (hunny) (6)