| TAMILNADU | A state of southeast India, the capital of which is Chennai (5,4) |
| PALK | ? Strait, channel between southeast India and Sri Lanka |
| UTTAR | --- Pradesh, densely populated state of North India, the capital of which is Lucknow (5) |
| UTTARPRADESH | Highly populous state of Northern India, the capital of which is Lucknow (5,7) |
| GUANABARA | Former state of SE Brazil merged with the surrounding state of Rio de Janeiro in 1975 (9) |
| PRADESH | State of SE India on the Bay of Bengal; Hyderabad was made its capital in 1956 (6,7) |
| ANDHRA | State of SE India on the Bay of Bengal; Hyderabad was made its capital in 1956 (6,7) |
| ANDHRAPRADESH | State of SE India whose capital is Hyderabad |
| SINGAPORE | Island city-state of Southeast Asia (9) |
| TAMIL | --- Nadu is a state of S.E. India whose capital is Chennai (5) |
| NADU | Tamil ___ (state of India whose capital is Chennai) |
| PEACOCK | The male of the national bird of India; the butterfly Aglais io; or, the novelist who wrote Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey and Crotchet Castle (7) |
| TABASCO | Estado (state) of SE Mexico bordered to the north by the Gulf of Mexico; capital, Villahermosa (7) |
| COROMANDEL | ___ Coast, area of SE India extending from False Divi Point to Kanyakumari (10) |
| MINASGERAIS | State of SE Brazil north-west of Rio de Janeiro; capital, Belo Horizonte (5,6) |
| SARAWAK | A wife leads one into a small island state of SE Asia (7) |
| TENALI | City in Andhra Pradesh, SE India on the Krishna River delta, which is a market for rice (6) |
| PALKSTRAIT | Inlet of the Bay of Bengal that separates SE India from northern Sri Lanka (4,6) |
| CHENNAI | State capital of Tamil Nadu in SE India, formerly (until 1996) called Madras (7) |
| TRAIL | The route taken by flower children of the 60s from Europe to Kathmandu, Nepal & India, the hippie .. |
