Across

1. Morals etc. established by authority, custom

6. India’s investigative agency (inits.)

7. Swindle or trick etc.

8. Salman Rushdie’s early work

11. Trouble, irritate or vex

14. Before, in poetic terms

15. How Lincoln was affectionately called

16. Covenant, especially between God and humans

1. Something possessed of a sacred character or mysterious
significance

2. "Rara_______", truly a rare bird

3. Troubled town in Kashmir

4. Group of persons related by common ancestry or heredity

5. Mental feeling; emotion

9. Agricultural implement

10. Minister of a rank lower than cabinet in India (inits.)

11. Hardy’s masterwork

12. Former comedian of Indian cinema

13. Feeling of comfort

Solved