Crossword for Wednesday 9 September 2026

Across

1. 1. Sardar standing tall in the Narmada valley
2. 6. A place for orphans and disciples, say
3. 8. Family name of the "ideal child"
4. 9. String-powered spinner
5. 10. Wants, in client-speak
6. 13. (Hindi) Symptom of arrogance or old age
7. 15. Bollywood music production house with a logo that looks like a target
8. 17. (Hindi/Marathi) Word that may express surprise, disappointment, sadness or happiness
9. 19. Status that lets you sit on a birth, but not sleep
10. 20. Commonly seen name in a student's pencil box till Class 4
11. 22. Hot dog
12. 23. Leader in a lawyer's order to stop, and not start again

Down

1. 1. Chunky Panday in Housefull
2. 2. Emperor behind India's National Emblem
3. 3. Interviewer who received "Dosti bani rahe"
4. 4. "To ___ is human, to forgive is divine"
5. 5. Tibetan Buddhist monk
6. 7. Where a flag or a ship's sail attaches
7. 11. (Hindi) Small neighbourhood family-owned store
8. 12. Replacement parts
9. 14. What a 20A could be used to do
10. 16. Word following jump or preceding crow
11. 18. Ankur Warikoo's promised scale of, er, achievement
12. 21. Understood (with I)