By Karuna Goswamy

1. Notion; passing fancy

3. You can do this, or borrow or steal, as they say

6. Rough, uncivil character

7. Long-legged bird

8. You are apt to run into one easily at a university

9. Skating is tricky on this

12. Commonplace; cliched

14. Great Napoloeonic victory

15. Lump of clay, grass

16. There is a baby of this kind in folk tales

Down

1. Unwise character

2. Flowers on which Wordsworth wrote

3. Expression of contempt, disapproval

4. Great painter of France in the 19th century

5. — Longowal, saintly figure of modern Punjab

10. One of the great schools of England

11. — Sharif, famous Hollywood actor

13. Finish; bring to a close