By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. To anger, rub on the wrong side

3. Step on a ladder

5. What Gandhiji would not do

6. Spielberg’s famous film

8. Guise; dress

10. The man of Fables

12. Bend, go down, with weight

13. Airlines can issue a ticket against one (inits.)

14. The chosen few

17. Central figure in a film

18. Given place or position

19. India’s golden beach resort

20. He fiddled while Rome burnt

21. The end part, behind

1. India’s favourite tourist destination

2. Otherwise; also

3. There is a bridge by this name in Amritsar

4. The straits that govern the Mediterranean

7. Bet

9. Karel —, famous modern painter

11. The Baba of Shirdi

15. Graphic symbol

16. ‘The ruler of all Russians