By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Confusion

5. State in the USA

6. ‘__ and the man’, a play by G.B. Shaw

7. A kind of coffee

8. From 13 to 19

10. __cloth, male apparel

12. Sooting ointment

13. __ Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in the USA

14. The Loch — monster

15. The coldest state in the USA

1. Capital of Catalonia in Spain

2. Italian currency

3. Be obliged to

4. Thing that appears or is perceived

6. Against

9. Site of famous Gupta pillar inscription

11. US aeronautics and space agency (abbv.)

12. The author of the Harshacharita