| RAVI | A transboundary river crossing North Western India and Eastern Pakistan |
| JAT | Caste of people from north western India |
| GONDWANA | New dawn breaking in part of Western India and large part of Central India (8) |
| GANGA | A transboundary river flowing through India and Bangladesh, which begins in the western Himalayas in Uttarakhand |
| MANAS | A transboundary river in the Himalayan foothills between southern Bhutan and India |
| GREATINDIAN | Also known as the Thar Desert, this arid region of rolling sand hills is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan. (5,6) |
| THAR | The region of rolling sand hills on the Indian subcontinent located partly in northwestern India and partly in eastern Pakistan. |
| UNADORNED | Dour and nervous crossing north-eastern plain |
| ISLANDS | Scottish girl's crossing North Dakota - and Hawaii, say? |
| MODALYADVENT | Albanian in a brawl crossing North America |
| CONBRIO | Lively horse crossing North Mexican river |
| BOMBAY | Former name of a city and port of western India (6) |
| MALIGNANT | Destructive insect crossing north African country further up |
| VINDEPAYS | Jockey crossing North Dakota settles for local tipple |
| TERMINATE | Stop colonial worker crossing North America |
| ENDLESS | Without stopping, negotiate Leeds, crossing north to south (7) |
| LUNACY | Folly of girl crossing North America (6) |
| ORDINAL | Maybe first troops call crossing north |
| ENVELOP | Cover electric vehicle crossing North Pole after overturning |
| WANDER | Stork, say, crossing north, to go astray |
