By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1 Popular Indian leafy vegetable

5 Shake head in affirmation

6 Circular mark

7 Dark, heavy wood

11 ‘Brother’, as in a French monastery

14 Netaji’s army (inits.)

15 Not ancient or old

16 Important Christian holiday

Down

1 Popular drink in Goa

2 Point from which things spread, shoot forth

3 Small whirlpool

4 Eagle-like bird

8 Stop; prohibit

9 Also not

10 Thin stream, streak, as of smoke

11 Young deer

12 Relating to ‘within’

13 Taunt; make fun of

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