| TUENS | Watching the stars: "spectans" sidera, cf. Catullus 66.89 |
| MACULAT | He dirties, eg Attis terrae sola sanguine polluit, cf. Catullus 63.7 |
| LESBIA | Puella poetae quae in sinu passerem tenere solebat (cf Catullus 2) |
| ASTRONOMER | One of those out watching the stars for The Observer who presumably won't look at The Sun? (10) |
| TELESCOPE | One of those watching the stars with Lawrence and Lesley Clare entertaining Oscar and Penny (9) |
| GAZING | Watching the stars |
| AETHERIIS | Sidera [...] ____ affixa cavernis: stars stuck on the lofty vaults, DRN 4.391 |
| STELLAE | Astra, sidera. Anglice qui facta haud 19 agunt |
| OSSA | Bones (non is audaciter per sidera cum Nauarcho Kirko iens) |
| PRONA | Setting, sinking, eg sidera, Prop. 1.16.23 |
| TOT | As many: ____ mala sum passus, quot in aethere sidera, Ov. Tris. 1.5.47 |
| SATURNALIA | Festival that the poet Catullus called "the best of days" |
| VERONA | It became a Roman colony in 89 BCE and rose in importance because it was at the junction of main roads between Italy and northern Europe. The poet Catullus was born there. In Romeo and Juliet (act 1, |
| AEREUM | In the air, high, lofty, e.g. ____...montis ...cacumen, Catullus 64.240 |
| FASEST | It is right, cf. ille, si ____ ____, superare divos, Catullus 51.2 |
| IOHYMEN | Cry of welcome to the wedding god (vide Catullus 61.120) |
| SALE | With the wit Catullus requested, Carmen 13.5 |
| UNDA | What the shore is struck by, vide Catullus 11.4 |
| IAMBI | Poetic feet (short-long combination) often hurled out by eg Catullus on the attack |
| LYRICPOET | Polite cry emanating from one such as Catullus (5,4) |
