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By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Have the courage to do something

3. — Mukherji, Bollywood’s new heart-throb

7. Seven hundred verses, often related to those in honour of Durga

8. The Cape of this name is a famous holiday resort in the USA

9. Snake, usually of the kind that constricts

12. The branch of study concerned with language.

14. — Ellington, Jazz great

15. Popular summer vegetable

Down

2. Swift; speedy

4. Well-known Bombay-based painter

5. Pakistan’s secret service, active in areas like J&K

6. Thin, flat floor-spread

7. Pouch within an animal, containing a fluid

9. Rivulet; small stream

10. Prince of this name was once married to Rita Hayworth

11. Triumphed, as in a game or war

12. Something that you also write on

13. Irritate; annoy