By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Wound with a sharp instrument.

5. Central Asian bread.

6. Affliction of the joints etc.

8. A kind of duck.

11. Wild; animal-like.

12. The Jewish people.

14. Sharp nail on the toe of an animal.

17. Affirmative answer.

Down

1. The hundredth year.

2. An octopus has these, as does a spider.

3. Shout down, in derision.

4. Age; long period.

6. The Ilahi — was a measure of length in Mughal India.

7. Space freaks speak of an object like this every now and then (abbr.).

9. An old measure of length, in England.

10. Is said to have long arms.

13. Resting place.

15. The snake that bit Cleopatra to death.