| JEWEL | 1980s TV epic set in India, The ----- in the Crown (5) |
| KOENIG | Walter, U.S. actor who played Ensign Chekov in sci-fi TV epic Star Trek: The Original Series (6) |
| ACCEPTIVE | Ready to receive; ace TV epic (anag.) (9) |
| ILIAD | Epic set in the 10th year of the Trojan War |
| LATHI | In India the big stick is used to make one halt (5) |
| ICEUP | Universal plugging elaborate epic set in winter (3,2) |
| VADIS | "Quo --" (1951 epic set in Rome) |
| GHOUL | Ghostly Netflix horror series set in India (5) |
| PADMA | In eastern India, the Ganges splits into the ____ and Hooghly |
| ASSAM | State in northeastern India, the world's largest tea-growing region (5) |
| MAHAL | Marble mausoleum in Agra, India, the Taj _ (5) |
| TRAIL | The route taken by flower children of the 60s from Europe to Kathmandu, Nepal & India, the hippie .. |
| UTTAR | Which state of India, the country's most populous, was known as United Provinces from 1935 and was given its current name in 1950? (5,7) |
| HOTEL | Judi Dench dramedy about British retirees who move to India, The Best Exotic Marigold ___ |
| JRRTOLKIEN | Who wrote a modern version of the heroic epic set in the mythical Middle-earth? |
| ANNA | Jodie in a 1999 epic set in Asia |
| AMRITSAR | In India the site of the Sikh's holiest temple (8) |
| SARI | In India, the air's different - very wearing in fact! (4) |
| WARANDPEACE | 1860s epic set in the Napoleonic Era |
| ZHIVAGO | 1966 David Lean epic set in Russia and starring Omar Sharif, Doctor ------- (7) |
