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1. Triangular seed podded spice

2. Colorful but a $10,000 per kilo price tag!

4. Raita cucurbit

5. Sometimes the “Mother” is still inside the bottle

7. Main ingredient of a drink (The drink reminds us of who helped Timmy escape the well)

8. Bengal gram

10. Heart in a can

12. Cucurmin heavy spice

13. Not the white

14. Spice mix

16. Beast in the bread dough

ACROSS

3. Indian cottage cheese

6. Spice for an apple

9. Samosa spice

11. Sour Chaas ingredient from the famed Falls of Ithaca, NY

14. National fruit of India

15. Spiky delicacy from a soapberry family (for your Phirni)

17. Common Indian food base (twice as many types as the number of Ganesha’s arms)

18. Nuttier than “sushi,” longer than “bomba” but definitely “indica.”