By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Popular winter plant with yellow flowers

6. Of recent origin; unused

7. Large, very large bird

8. Fear

12. Expand; rise up

16. Old measure of length, especially used in England

17. Animal that the Tibetans know only too well

18. Unequalled; surpassing

Down

1. A kind of coffee, once a popular item in restaurants

2. Vulgar; obscene

3. Egypt’s river of life and sorrow

4. Consumed; old

5. Fever; ailment

9. Dispute; altercation

10. Cobbler’s tool

11. Space at side of road, above a ditch

12. Cut

13. Every

14. Stringed musical instrument

15. Devices that sportsmen use on snow