CROSSWORD 
Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Indian state which has our own ‘Silicon Valley’

6. Leave out; neglect

8. Initials of a great museum in New York

11. Wanderer

12. _ Mendes, fine Hollywood actress

13. Period; epoch

14. Unexpressed; implicit

17. Famous festival in Rajasthan

19. From a little one, big things can grow

21. One of the greatest names in Western classical music

Down

2. Target; objective

3. An alliance of countries round the Atlantic (inits.)

4. Large, heavy volume

5. Rudyard Kipling’s classic work

6. Not concealed or secret

7. Angry; incensed

9. Hold forth; speak

10. Alter; modify

15. Yesteryear’s villain of Hindi films

16. They conduct research into space here (inits.)

18. Was fashioned out of Adam’s rib

20. Increase, enlarge etc.