CROSSWORD
Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Popular music band of yesteryear
3. Brink; projecting edge
7. Border district in Punjab
8. Ceremonial vessel
9. Colonial material or matter
12. The second of the great Vedas
14. Buddhist city in central Japan
15. Portent; augury

Down

2. Member of the nobility in England
4. Cut or tear apart
5. Damage or spoil
6. Vital fluid in a plant
7. Large, ox-like antelope
9. “To sleep, perchance to ____”, as Hamlet said
10. Period; age
11. Mineral in its raw form
12. Japanese unit of currency
13. Broad mouthed container, usually of glass