Puzzle 1: Letter Scrabble

Recently I've been solving puzzles apart from Sudoku more often than earlier and the natural digression for me was to create puzzles. Created an Akari puzzle which was posted on LMI Social Media on Diwali. And here's my second puzzle with the theme of attendees of the LMI Meet Up we are having at Delhi today. 

I know the blog is called Let's "Sudoku". In my mind I had three options - either to rename the blog or to create a new blog for puzzles or to start a puzzle series on the same blog. Going ahead with the third option for now. But not sure how I'll continue in the future. Open to hear your suggestions. 

Rules: Place all the listed words exactly once in the grid going across (left to right) or down (top to bottom). Each word intersects with at least one other word and all words are interconnected. No words of two or more letters can appear anywhere in the grid, except the ones listed. If a letter is given, all instances of it are given.

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