Across

1. Cut to pieces; mutilate

5. Seek favour or love of someone

6. A cereal grass

7. — Ali Shah, ill-fated king of Oudh

11. A bee has one; so does a nettle

14. Cobblers and embroiderers use this

15. An old measure of length in England

16. Explicate; translate orally

Down

1. Pakistan’s prominent newspaper

2. Put in a place for storage

3. A Bhat in other words

4. Sway or rock under a blow

8. Insect that sometimes builds a hill

9. Where travellers often rest

10. Famous 19th century Urdu poet

11. Machines found in gambling casinos

12. To shift this is to change course or attitude

13. Surfeit; excess

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