Across
- 5. City associated with projects, not weather
- 9. Language name rendered with regional affection
- 10. Royal title that became a shared screen memory
- 12. Song where moonlight does most of the talking
- 13. Institute remembered as much for companionship as coursework
- 14. Conversational outcome instinctively secured
- 19. Cochin institution where talk outlasted refreshments
- 20. Rangeela connection that extended beyond the screen
- 22. Academic term gently altered by adolescent imagination
- 24. Chemically speaking, a source of laughter
- 25. What his nickname literally points to
- 26. where fluid dynamics stopped being theoretical
Down
- 1. Film whose spirit once occupied a hostel wall
- 2. Surname that travelled effortlessly across languages
- 3. Student collective remembered for creativity over conformity
- 4. Activity where coordination mattered more than cue sheets
- 6. Stringed classical instrument, demanding patience before grace
- 7. Star whose style mattered more than the script
- 8. Grid where patience is regularly tested
- 11. Student invention recalled more for persistence than purpose
- 15. Paper whose puzzles outshine its headlines
- 16. What cinema characters commit, and classmates joke about
- 17. number of attempts to qualify for the “cream of the society”
- 18. Language approached analytically, not conversationally
- 19. Comic strip child philosopher whose imagination needed no permission
- 21. Language revived weekly, comprehension optional
- 23. Voice that still fills rooms long after it fell silent