Saturday, December 15, 2007

CROSSWORD
Karuna Goswamy

1. A gunpowder blast is called this

6. Twosome; a team of two

7. Street dog

8. A lord’s landed estate in England

11. Fabric of which most jeans are made

14. Eggs, a cluster of them

15. India’s income tax officers often come from this service (inits.)

16. Given to plunder or greed

1. Strenuous effort

2. Academic year-end dance in colleges

3. Baking, roasting apparatus

4. India’s premier body that deals with cultural matters abroad (inits.)

5. Very sweet-smelling flower

9. Period; era

10. Cricket matches now very popular (inits.)

11. Moist; slightly wet

12. Body engaged in cultural work in northern India (inits.)

13. Great Spanish painter