By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Deficient in colour.

3. Country in the Middle East.

7. An earlier occurrence prior in time.

8. Trans.

9. Structure holding the waters of a river in a reservoir.

12. The art of negotiation.

14. Another name for Ireland.

15. Unit for measuring a computer memory.

Down

2. Unstratified layer of buff coloured soil.

4. Cereal used in bread.

5. A meshed fabric.

6. Implement for writing.

7. Picture (abbrev.).

9. Small note book for writing personal notes.

10. A month of the year.

11. Edgar Allen —— British writer of suspense fiction.

12. Female deer.

13. The Press Trust of India (abbrev.).