By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Member of a large ethnic group in former Yugoslavia

3. Noisy, boisterous party

5. Important period in Japanese history

6. Noble of high rank in Europe

10. Mountain chain in the USSR

12. Drunken character

13. Used by road-builders

14. The Ship of the Desert

17. India’s premier body of professional historians (inits.).

18. What no sentence is complete without

19. Employ

20. Shah—, Mughal ruler

21. Want; desire

Down

1. One of the many forms of Shiva

2. Light, spiritous drink

3. What Kumble does best

4. The city of the Nizams

7. The desert part of Gujarat

9. New Zealand’s rising batsman

11. Purpose; objective

15. There is a lily of this kind

16. Not odd