Hindi crossword

(Stolen from Beginner’s Hindi )

Remember that Devanagari is syllabic – each box will contain a whole syllable
(somvar = so | m | va | r, etc).

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ACROSS DOWN

1 brave 1 ugly
5 political party, group 2 condition, state
6 teacher (female) 3 enemy
8 ‘honey-forest’ [place name] 4 shopkeeper
9 ever, always (archaic) 6 now
10 then 7 concentration, attention
11 Tuesday 9 question
12 newspaper-seller 11 temple
17 don’t...! 12 American
18 ashtray 13 danger
20 an Indian epic poem 14 ancient city on Ganges
22 straight 15 100, 000
25 to bathe 16 that is to say
26 singer 19 lentil
21 to hit
23 thread
24 one