By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1 Quiet; unruffled

3 Cloth tied around the waist

5 Top card

6 Mythical mountain in the Hindu tradition

8 Was once in the ancient Near East

10 Evade; escape

12 Adam's part from which Eve was fashioned

13 Break off; suppress

14 Famous Second World War film with a Greek woman as its central character

17 Greasy

18 Just one time

19 Regret; be sorry about

20 River in Bihar

21 She and the Swan are great characters in European myths

Down

1 Western African territory that once belonged to Germany

2 Wound by attacking with claws

3 Tiny thing from which great ones spring

4 Species of insects to which the cicada belongs, for instance

7 Be up in arms

9 Great Bolshevik leader

11 Purpose; advantage

15 Stringed instrument

16 How Christmas is referred to in some lands in Europe

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