Olympics revision

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Across
  1. 5. These people were totally disgraced on their return home
  2. 7. Regarded as the most dangerous sport
  3. 8. Square practice area for combat events
  4. 11. Large rectangular area for practising sprints and throwing events
  5. 13. Lock up your valuables here
  6. 14. The prize for winning an event at Olympia
  7. 17. None of you would get a room here
  8. 18. An athlete who won all 3 running events
  9. 19. Athletes had to stay in Elis for one of these
  10. 21. This guaranteed that nobody got beaten up on the way to or from the games
  11. 22. The only athlete who would have had to worry about what to wear
  12. 27. Interesting first move in wrestling
  13. 29. Standard sport of all Greek men, and extra embarrassing when done in the nude
  14. 30. The only type of events which women could win Olympic crowns in
  15. 32. Scene of crashes
  16. 34. This many oxen were sacrificed to Zeus on day 3 of the games
  17. 36. The number of days the games lasted
  18. 40. One of these echoed 7 times, allegedly
  19. 43. If you are not a Greek, you are one of these
  20. 44. You had to be one of these to compete at Olympia
  21. 45. The extra holy bit of Olympia
Down
  1. 1. Loads of these at Olympia made the experience very unpleasant
  2. 2. Legendary hero who might have started the games when he finished 12 tricky tasks
  3. 3. Designer of the 7th wonder of the world
  4. 4. The state which hosted and ran the ancient Olympics
  5. 6. The Greeks viewed sport as training for this
  6. 8. Nasty combo of wrestling and boxing
  7. 9. The number of kilometres between Elis and Olympia that athletes and others had to walk
  8. 10. 13 very expensive examples of punishment for cheats
  9. 12. You could squeeze 45,000 people in here
  10. 15. Ten of these and they have the power to flog
  11. 16. Greek name for jumping weights
  12. 20. A type of foul, often seen in combat events
  13. 23. the last event of the games
  14. 24. Powered by a thong and part of the Pentathlon
  15. 25. Specially muddy area in palaestra for extra fun for pankratiasts
  16. 26. Banned from Olympia and thrown off a cliff if found there
  17. 28. Building where athletes swore a lot
  18. 31. First to race chariots here
  19. 32. Women had a rather short race in her honour at their own games
  20. 33. Top discus throwers had a chance of winning this event
  21. 35. Athletes launched this with a three-quarter turn
  22. 37. Material used to protect boxers' knuckles
  23. 38. The winner of this race got the Olympiad named after them
  24. 39. Top god, worshipped by putting oneself through the pain and suffering of athletics
  25. 41. When you swear
  26. 42. Month the games took place