By
Karuna Goswamy
Across
:
1. The day they call
Thursday in the West.
6. Alert; not asleep
9. Eat; be at supper
11. Favoured summer
vegetable
13. The snake that
crushes its victim
14. Window fixture
16. Famous writer who
retold Shakespeare’s tales
19. Large musical
‘instrument’ often in a church
21. A branch of the
study of biology
Down :
1. Ian
Fleming’s celebrated character
2. Land ruled by the
Pahalvis once
3. Well-known still
life painter from Bombay
4. Peer into; sneak a
look
5. Bali’s wife in
the Ramayana
7. Max ——,
well-known social scientist
8. The bear that is
far from fearsome
10. Another name of
the Earth Goddess
12. One of the zodiac
signs
14. Your fortune is in the
lines of this, the palmists say
15. How the French
refer to Christmas time as
17. The wind god in
our myths
18. The war that
rocked South Africa late last century
