By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Yasser Arafat’s state

5. Receptacle; container

6. Period

7. Giant; towering figure

11. Who appeared to the Virgin Mary

14. The dreaded virus of our age (inits.)

15. Large flightless bird

16. Weather forecaster’s essential tool

1. Small, fleshy fruit

2. What often sticks to clothes

3. The Terrible Czar

4. What Adam and Eve had to leave

8. — of Sixth Happiness (title of a famous book, Hollywood film)

9. Fear; respect

10. The Captain who took on Moby Dick

11. State; affirm

12. Gave temporarily as loan

13. What a satisfied cat does