1. Throw, as useless piece of metal
6. Third character to appear in "Vishnu Puran"
7. Relax in a hammock with a crossword, say
8. When doubled, texter's laugh
10. Clock-setting std. for India: ___+530
11. Couple's pronoun
13. KISS principle: Keep ___ Simple, Stupid
14. Major festival in Kerala
16. X-axis and ___-axis, on a graph paper
17. What the circled letters represent a pile of (hinted at by the Indian game formed by the circled letters)