Saturday, December 29, 2001
C R O S S W O R D


By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1. Butterfly in the making

6. First name of Indian cinema’s ‘dream girl’

8. Stork-like bird found in warm climates

11. Cut away; destroy gradually

12. What mornings bring on grass

13. The forest of lions, one might say

14. Town in the north of Switzerland

17. One must not rest on them

19. ‘Pure as the driven ___’, as they say

21. Domain; region

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Down:

2. Agriculturist’s implement

3. Twelve months should make one

4. Dry; desert-like

5. __ Amin, the infamous dada of Uganda

6. Relating to water

7. Proud Rajput kingdom

9. Half-done is a thing when it is well __

10. A drowning man often clutches at one

15. Jaffar Ali Khan ‘___’, famous Urdu poet

16. ___ Haldar, well-known Bengali painter

18. Top card

20. Not theirs

Solved