By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Fish with weapon-like snout

5. Lowly, street dog

6. What billiard players can hardly do without

7. Place for duels and wrestling bouts

11. Subside; go down

14. Emergency message (inits.)

15. To do this comes naturally to a cow

16. Great Scottish city

Down

1. Groom; horse-trainer

2. Popular summer vegetable

3. The great empire of this name was among the most powerful in south America

4. Pay attention to

8. Eve was fashioned from this part of Adam

9. Fishermen depend upon this for their livelihood

10. Arthur_, great tennis player

11. One of the tributaries of Ganga near Benares

12. Clan chief or ruler among the Arabs

13. One of the great Urdu poets of our time.