By Karuna Gooswamy
Across
1. Important day in Christian calendar
6. Skill; cleverness
9. — Pillai, young woman linked with a Bollywood
star
11. Long periods of time
13. Abbr. for a word denoting quantity
14. A young woman’s beautiful eyes are often
compared to this
16. Nightingale of the Indian scree
19. The holiest word in Islam
21. First name of our famous beauty queen
Down
1. Much loved winter fruit
2. Agreeable pleasant
3. Age, period
4. Essence; extract
5. News agency of the former Soviet Union
7. French composer most famous for his
‘Bolero’
8. Slang for a man of ordinary rank
10. How the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey was
called
12. Not gross
14. Long, heroic tale
15. You should not rest on these, say the wise
17. Pastoral group in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh etc.
18. What every opera-lover longs to hear
20. Goes generally with ‘order’
