By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. An instrument that helps one see distant objects

6. Of an oval shape

9. Land official in the Mughal times

10. Students’ body that assumed political power in Assam (inits).

11. A kind of snake

14. Frighten; place under great physical and metal pressure

1. There is one that is Old and another that is New

2. Lion, in other words

3. — motu is an action that a judge can initiate

4. Not even; peculiar

5. Fluent, apt use of language

7. Correct; well-grounded

8. Angry; incensed

11. The report that is made in confidence about an employee (inits.)

12. Twosome

13. Sports complex in Haryana