By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. The sign denoting the connective ‘and’

6. Walk; step on to

9. Florence Nightingale was the one who carried one always!

10. Famous gambling and entertainment resort in Nevada.

11. Open space surrounded by woods.

14. Bearing the same name as the person associated with it.

Down

2. Large hole in the ground.

3. Coarse grain.

4. Support; succour.

5. Wordsworth’s popular poem on some flowers.

7. Put off; turn away.

8. Sharp and harsh in taste, odour.

11. Prefix, relating to the earth.

12. One or another, at random.

13. Prefix, relating to the environment.