The Times Specialist - Crossword Answers | 2017 08 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One half of what Tacitus claims to renounce in writing history (Annals 1.1) IRA
Recte, diligenter, solito more; the Roman way? RITE
Aut salvator aut salvus aut (rare) salus ipsa sospes
A woman who is blamed or called to account (like Clodia in 4 d) accusata
Cut short, severed, wrenched away (fem: nom pl, gen/dat sing) abruptae
Stretched out: ____ visentur... stagna (Horace Odes 2.15.3-4) extenta
The other half of what Tacitus repudiates (vide 23 across) STUDIO
They were dragging down (or through the mud) detrahebant
_____ mutandis; things having been changed (that needed to be changed) (abl. pl.) MUTATIS
He might have known, cognovisset (pluperfect subj.) scivisset
Things sharp to the taste or touch or smell acria
You lie there on your own iaces
You (s) are in the fold; or might you be inveigling your way in? insinues
Tortured (men) or curly (hair) torti
To get someone off the hook; to unburden them exonerare
To be mad: aegrotare animi vitio (eg Horace Odes 3.19.18) insanire
This woman's husband - or rather, brother: I'm always making that mistake (Cicero Pro Caelio 32) semperhicerro
Hooked, like Palinurus's hands as he climbs the rock face (Aeneid 6.360) uncis
Nonetheless, however attamen
Like all Cretans, I tell lies mentior
In qua fluunt aquae aut verba: rivo, flumine (abl.) amne
I quaked, horrui tremui
A silent man, or an eloquent historian (voc.) TACITE
By turns, in return: ____ versa VICE
____ in orbe, in the whole world (except Kansas) TOTO
Skill or discipline: ___ longa, vita brevis ARS