By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. The ‘Duke’ of this name was a great jazz figure.

6. The great snake that constricts

7. Segment of a circle

8. Tree spirit

11. Small furred quadruped

14. The secret of life seems to be in this

15. America’s secret service (inits.)

16. Eating place in a monastery

1. Decorate a fabric with threads

2. Among the heaviest of metals

3. Force on the seas

4. Froggy creature

5. Important; needed

9. What the doctors recommend as an addition to your daily diet (inits.)

10. Become sick

11. Nom de plume of a famous Urdu poet of Pakistan

12. India’s great atomic research facility (inits.)

13. The ‘returning’ sound