The Odyssey - Books I-XII

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Across
  1. 3. a prediction. (1)
  2. 6. a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, the smallest of the Ionian Islands. (2)
  3. 7. the woolly covering of a sheep or goat. (4)
  4. 9. a chariot driver. (3)
  5. 11. a member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead. (11)
  6. 13. a defensive wall of a castle or walled city. (10)
  7. 14. the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. (4)
  8. 16. hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors. (8)
  9. 19. the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon. (12)
  10. 21. a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks. (12)
  11. 23. a wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head. (2)
  12. 24. a man who pursues a relationship with a particular woman, with a view to marriage. (1)
  13. 25. a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe. (10)
  14. 27. poet who often visits the court of Alcinous. (8)
  15. 31. one of the rivers of the underworld. (5)
  16. 34. embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery. (5)
  17. 35. invested with sovereign authority. (8)
  18. 36. the king of the Phaeacians in the generation before Odysseus washed ashore on their home island. (6)
Down
  1. 1. an ancient city located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey. (1)
  2. 2. an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered. (7)
  3. 4. a blind Theban seer. (11)
  4. 5. a one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology. (2)
  5. 8. a mythical king of Laconia. (4)
  6. 10. a guest at a banquet. (9)
  7. 12. any of a large class of inferior female divinities. (5)
  8. 15. a drink poured out as an offering to a deity. (3)
  9. 17. a Homeric Thracian tribe. (9)
  10. 18. the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus. (6)
  11. 20. a son of Uranus and Gaia. (6)
  12. 22. son of Nausithous and brother of Rhexenor. (7)
  13. 26. king of the Laestrygones. (10)
  14. 28. king of the overweening Giants. (7)
  15. 29. a sea-monster whose gigantic whirlpool swirled in the straits of Messina opposite the cliffs of the monster Scylla. (12)
  16. 30. in ancient Greek religion, god of the sea (and of water generally), earthquakes, and horses. (3)
  17. 32. stronghold of the cicones. (9)
  18. 33. the god of a dark region of the underworld and the personification of darkness. (11)