| MAHARANI | A princess in India or the wife of a maharaja (8) |
| TONGA | Vehicle in India or the Friendly Islands |
| MAHARANEE | Princess of India or wife of a Maharaja (9) |
| BEGUM | Moslem princess, in India |
| PENELOPE | Keith, Cruz or the wife of Odysseus (8) |
| RANEE | (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja. |
| WARBRIDE | The wife of a soldier met as the result of a posting during hostilities (3,5) |
| LEONARDO | Lira da braccio-playing military engineer, painter and polymath whose Renaissance portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a Florentine merchant, was famously stolen from the Louvre in 1911, by hand |
| RANI | A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja (4) |
| BADINAGE | Novel began describing a princess in playful talk (8) |
| MAJESTY | A title used to address or refer to a sovereign or the wife or widow of a sovereign (7) |
| TANDOORI | Cuisine peculiar to India (or replacing one there) (8) |
| DOMINICA | Nomadic drunk going round India or some island (8) |
| PEACOCK | Male of the national bird of India; or, the novelist and poet who wrote Nightmare Abbey (7) |
| GEM | The Star of India or the Enigma |
| TESTTEAM | Willing male, adult moving East to India or Australia? |
| RANJITSINGH | Indian maharaja who founded the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab in 1801; known as the Lion of the Punjab (6,5) |
| ASSAM | Tea-growing region of India, or the tea it produces |
| INQILAB | Word from Urdu for a revolution in India or Pakistan etc (7) |
| AMAH | A nursemaid in India or eastern Asia (4) |
