By Karuna Goswamy

Across

1 Babur’s native place

6 Gifted

9 Ghalib’s pen name

11 A trip on a horseback or vehicle

13 The Irish Republican Army (abbrev)

14 Akind of palm used as food.

16 A melody that has been performed vocally once.

19 To speak

21 What royalty and nobility distribute as largesse.

Down

1 Rama’s consort

2 Large

3 Abbreviation for revolution

4 Indian missile is named this

5 To sup

7 One lacking in intelligence

8 To wipe out

10 The large saline waterbody

12 Noise

14 To falter and fall

15 Sharp blast of wind

17 — Major, constellation known as ‘great bear’

18 To gift, to part with

20 Adjective denoting excess

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