About two weeks ago I published a weird cross-cultural/language crossword puzzle.  I know a couple of people who tried it and even got a few right, so here are the answers for the others who tried.

Across

3.     Much love...Kiss (maach)
4.     Vehicle for free speech...Taxi (Tehran taxi)
7.     Cow pasture on your head...Moo
8.     Name for a girl concieved during Nowrooz...Azar (9 months)
9.     Amu Darya...Oxus
11.     Soundless musician...Saket (Keyvan)
13.     Thank you, France, for letting us borrow this word...Merci
14.     Winter makes me puke...Barf
21.     Cult couple...Rajavi
22.     Abode of the deaf and naughty...Karbala
23.     Kashan poet...Sepehri
24.     Square chant...Azadi
26.     Menu leaf...Barg (kabab)
27.     Famous uncle...Napoleon
28.     Chastity item...Hejab

Down
1.     Sailor with rum...Mast
2.     Teymour did this...Limp
5.     Swimming in cash...Pool
6.     lonesome crowd...Tanhaa (sounds like a plural of one "tan")
10.     SAVAK soda...Pepsi
12.     Mashhad royalty...Reza
13.     Abbas and Tahmineh...Milani
15.     Got up once, then fell again...Felfel
16.     Lipstick Jihad author...Moaveni
17.     Scrape for food...Tahdig
18.     Mountain city on a mole hill...Abadan
19.     Shirin Ebadi birthplace...Hamedan
20.     Jimmy went the opposite direction from Clint...Westwood
25.     Played the ney-labak very badly...Reed