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By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Great Jewish harvest festival.

5. Great period in Japanese history

6. Place of one of Napoleon’s many spectacular victories

7. Connection, link,often involving cash.

11. The wooden hammer that a judge or chairman wields

14. Through

15. Japanese currency

16. Theodore was one, and Fanklin was another

Down

1. Request; justification

2. As a famous author tells us, there can be darkness at this hour, too

3. The great West Asian river that one reads of in history

4. Not wild

8. Period; age

9. Employ; put into operation

10. State; affirm

11. Hills in the north-east of India after which a tribe is named

12. A stringed instrument

13. Mosquito-like insect