Birthday

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Across
  1. 7. Best eaten with a book in hand during summer vacations
  2. 10. Boy next door
  3. 12. Instrument belting out music on summer afternoons
  4. 13. First pianist
  5. 14. Crop you grew one summer
  6. 15. Reason for Badiaunty to show up at every garbage dump in Ranchi
  7. 18. Favourite sport
  8. 21. First fancy doll (name)
  9. 23. Name of first bicycle
  10. 26. Tree at the entrance of our home
  11. 27. Sleeps under the mulberry tree
  12. 28. Girl we played with in AG Office quarters
  13. 31. Favorite bihari wayside snack
  14. 34. First original dish experimented alone
  15. 35. Loved sharing this sweet with your sister
  16. 36. "...ke haseen sapne"
  17. 38. Gentle beast
  18. 41. Word that means happy / name of a childhood friend
  19. 42. Beverage name / animal's name
  20. 43. Name of a teacher combining laughter and swan
Down
  1. 1. Terror on a pedestal
  2. 2. Forever reading haunt
  3. 3. First school
  4. 4. Harvest on the roof
  5. 5. Priest on bicycle
  6. 6. Delicacy at Santosh ka dukaan
  7. 8. Papa's celebration of 'failure'
  8. 9. Basketball playmate
  9. 11. Nun who drove Robert's tempo to Doranda Market
  10. 13. Nepti's sister
  11. 16. First love
  12. 17. Birthday visit to this store
  13. 19. Reminds of the Ides of March
  14. 20. Softie junction
  15. 22. Raja's Rani
  16. 24. Least favourite living being in the neighbourhood
  17. 25. Big father of the cactii family
  18. 29. Ma made jam out of this tree's fruit
  19. 30. Forbidden fruit plucked at nun's convent
  20. 32. Diversity sports teacher LCR
  21. 33. Prarie land in LCR
  22. 37. Your first caregiver/nanny
  23. 39. Name of first teacher
  24. 40. White PT shoes