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By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Latin word you use to indicate that you are quoting exactly as it was

3. The Vatican is called Papal ——

6. The main postal outlet in a city (inits.)

7. The man after whom the world’s most famous prize is named

8. A measure of speed as in a camera film (inits.)

9. Negative indication before something

12. Comes well before ecstasy, at least in a book title

14. Considerable noise;

15. Lair; wild beast’s place

16. Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece

Down

1. Indication; hint

2. What you are solving at this time

3. Disobedience was the original one

4. Make patterns using extra thread

5. Stare at; peer unblinkingly

10. Favoured mode of payment

11. At another time, in poetic terms

13. The eastern currency that has taken a lot of beating, of late