Crossword for Sunday 6 September 2026

The Crossee crossword for Sunday 6 September 2026 — a 9×9 using current-use words from the languages of India. Free, no sign up required.

Across

1. ______ points, where a craft can hitch rides with the Earth, almost fuel-free
5. abbr. It builds and runs India's airports
6. What you might do on cracking this clue
11. (Hindi) What Richie Rich is
12. Flights for ₹2,500 - a promise struggling to take off
13. A texter's profuse thanks
14. Yes
15. abbr. Where ISRO rockets drop off their geosynchronous passengers
16. With "-logy", another way to look at the stars
18. abbr. Hotel chain whose full form will probably fit the first Mars settlers too
19. (Hindi/Sanskrit) The heavens - and with 14D, the vehicle of India's next major spaceflight milestone
20. Sky___: the AI that turned the machines on us, in the Arnold hit

1. Space ___, sleep deprivation experienced by astronauts
2. The more you heat it, the more it spreads
3. First Indian physicist to win a Nobel - try finding a better line on a CV
4. India's premier B-school, if flipped city-first - its ventures arm bankrolls space startups
7. Taking a model rocket to Tirupati before a launch is one of these
8. Fictional lost planet
9. Company that made India the third country to have a private rocket in orbit
10. Indian resident at the first 1A point, or a Sanskrit name for the celestial body it is studying
14. See 19A
17. Bread cosmonauts chose because it doesn't crumble - and, said aloud, Hindi for mustard seeds