The Times is reviving its Latin crossword after 85 years. The paper writes that the aim is to preserve and amplify everything that is most appealing about learning the language: its oddness, its rigour, the Romans’ spirit of whimsy and affection for wordplay. The first Times crossword was published on February 1, 1930. It quickly became very popular, so much so that one month later The Times ran a crossword in Latin for those of a more “exacting intellectual standard”.
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