By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Indian paintings on paper belong often to this category

6. Weep with gasps

7. How our Foreign Ministry is called (inits.)

8. Function; advantage

9. Grain of which you can have a meal

10. India’s premier bank (inits.)

11. Plaything

13. Sick

15. Large, very large snake

16. Speak on behalf of someone

Down

1. Italy’s great dictator

2. Catch hold of; arrest

3. These powers fought against the Allies in the World War

4. Battle in Europe fought early in the 19th century

5. Destroy from its roots

12. Consists of six balls

14. Destiny; fate

15. Busy insect

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