By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Measurable extent

5. Floor covering of a kind

6. Feline creature

7. Fragrance

11. Coloquial term that theatre people use often

14. Cobbler’s essential tool

15. Fear; respect

16. Gradual development over time

Down

1. Urgent,; desperate

2. Of very large proportions

3. Famous pre-Columbian empire

4. Register; write down

8. Word often used for a Communist

9. Technique that radiologists now frequently use

10. Anger; wrath

11. Palo ____, seat of the famous Stanford University

12. One of the Doabs of the Punjab

13. Role that a famous British comedian plays with aplomb

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