Across
1) The first name of the commander of 121 Brigade in June 1999 (8)
2) Common to 1) and 4) (5)
4) Former governor of the RBI and "an IMF man" (8)
6) The "firangi" most often featured on Outlook covers (6,9)
9) The brother also known as Iqbal Seth and the Gold Man (6,4)
10) He once offered to sweep the floor for Sahara (7)
11) The management consultancy that also published a journal called Outlook (6,8)
13) Girish Karnad described this as "the Hamlet of the East" (6)
14) The locale of Outlook’s first survey—a country without a post office (7)
15) Outlook’s favourite mobile republic (9,3)
17) The originally-plagiarised name of Outlook Money (11,8)
18 ) Mentioned in the same breath as God by Rahul Dravid (6,7)
19) The name of Vinod Mehta’s dog (6)
20) Not cricket, when Buddha smiled here and 15 threatened to secede (7,5)
Down
2) Once described by Outlook as the "hand that rocks the Congress" (5,6)
3) The little pill field-tested by Outlook (6)
5) The subject of Dom Moraes’ only Outlook poem (6,9)
7) The gloveman who dropped a few hints about fixing (6,5)
8) The insider mole in the PMO? (9)
12) After quitting Outlook he wrote about sex with a ghost (5,6)
16) Unhoused but not homeless at the Lampur Seva Sadan (8)
How to solve this x-word
This is not your ordinary crossword---it’s both a quiz and a crossword. The clues are quiz questions, and the answers to those questions are the clues to the crossword. The clues are all connected to Outlook and most answers are contained in this 10th anniversary mega issue.
