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