By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Low, flat-bottomed cooking vessel

5. The Dukedom of this place was mentioned in the title of one of India’s Viceroys

7. — al Khaima, one of the tiny little emirates in the Middle East.

8. Send forth; issue

10. India’s spring festival

13. Herd; large group

14. New Indian body looking at our telecommunications policy (inits)

16. Popular south Indian snack

18. Airlines’ abbreviation for our capital city.

20. Colloquial term for a young woman

21. Before; prior to

Down

1. Bird that hunters love to shoot

2. First name of one of Hollywood’s great beauties

3. Musical capital of Tennessee

4. What tastes best on a toast

6. To be sick

8. Consume

9. Lupino, star of yesteryear’s Hollywood

11. Great dictionary of the English language

12. — Amin, the ‘Dada’ of Uganda

15. Inexpensive liquor

17. Airline’s abbreviation for Los Angeles

19. Auditory organ.