CROSSWORD
Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Close-fitting, knitted cap

6. Four-stringed instrument, slightly larger than the violin

9. Expensive; costly

11. Ancient kingdom north of the Persian gulf

13. What Parashurama wielded

14. Cloud-like thing that hangs in the atmosphere

16. Judge; regard

19. Robbery or hold-up

21. Nanda ______ is one of the great festivals at Krishna shrines

Down

1. “_____ it like Beckham”, the film says

2. What a volcano spews forth

3. Executive head of an organisation (inits.)

4. Inland sea east of the Caspian

5. Shah _____, late Mughal Emperor

7. Angry; incensed

8. English city in Yorkshire

10. Short form of the biblical Elijah

12. How Lincoln’s name is shortened

14. Impair; cripple

15. A king in the Islamic tradition

17. Active volcano in Sicily

18. _____ Lisa, Leonardo’s master-work

20. International time measured by atoms (inits.)