Saturday, January 19, 2002
C R O S S W O R D


Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Was for quite some time the bone of contention between China and Japan

5. ___al Khaima issues some very unusual postal stamps

6. Once a pocket of Portuguese power in India

7. Commerce; business

11. Speak on oath

14. What businesses often project as their exclusive strength in the sales area (inits.)

15. Ancient manuscripts were often written on this leaf

16. Beautiful flower that grows from a bulb

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Down

1. A raga of Hindustani music

2. What birds wing towards

3. Anger; wrath

4. Mirza Ghalib also used this pen-name sometimes

8. Quarrel; strife

9. Contains the genetic code (inits.)

10. Set to fire

11. Make motions of attack and defence

12. Discoverer of the malarial mosquito

13. Young girl, often in old usage

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