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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 this treat (reminds us of who helps Timmy escape the well)
8. Bengal gram
10. Hearts in a can
12. Cucurmin heavy spice
13. Not the whites
14. Chai spice
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 sudsy plant 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.”