Pompeii: geography, destruction, discovery

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Across
  1. 2. Pliny described the cloud as being like this (4,4)
  2. 4. he saw the eruption and tried to help
  3. 5. they howled just before the eruption
  4. 8. sea close to Pompeii (3,2,6)
  5. 10. the big hill that ruined everything
  6. 11. the condition of these could tell us about someone's diet
  7. 12. he invented the use of plaster casts of victims
  8. 13. what happened to people breathing in poisonous gases
  9. 14. this might tell us about someone's wealth
  10. 16. the river running by Pompeii
Down
  1. 1. Pliny the Younger wrote to him telling him about the eruption
  2. 3. these happened quite frequently, but especially in 62AD
  3. 4. the final destructive surge (11,4)
  4. 6. you could grow these in the fertile land
  5. 7. lots of this fell at first during the eruption
  6. 9. what happened to those who stayed
  7. 11. they stopped singing before the eruption
  8. 15. what some people tried to do during the eruption