Saturday, August 12, 2006

CROSSWORD
Karuna Goswamy

1. Head of district in our land

6. Ray of light

8. Fraudulent scheme

11. Jokingly irritate or provoke

12. What fire leaves behind

13. Be sick or unwell

14. Green patch in a desert

17. Soviet Russia’s news agency

19. Head of a faculty at a university

21. Belonging to our ancient system of medicine

2. Mineral in raw form

3. Excuse that is weak, inadequate

4. Impost; duty

5. Cluster of eggs

6. "The Beauty and the ___"

7. One of the Three Musketeers

9. End; conclude

10. Summer fruit

15. Pen-name of a famous Urdu poet

16. "____ fixe" is a fixed idea or notion

18. Whatever or whichever

20. Great Shi’ite Prophet

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