By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Home sickness

6. Great artery issuing from the heart

9. To collect, to gather

11. Defence organisation

13. Computer term

14. Large car; inclusive

19. Water animal

21. Hill Station in Punjab

Down

1. External organ of smell

2. Burn

3. What we breathe

4. You have to change this as you drive

5. — Warhol, great American painter

7. Piece of hearsay

8. What matters in food

10. Upper limb of human body

12. Great Urdu poet of 18th century

14. Roman poet of the Ist century AD

15. The feast of Christmas in France

17. Leon — author of Exodus

18. To lose colour