| DUSHANBE | Capital of mountainous Central Asian country, formerly Stalinabad (8) |
| TADJIKISTAN | Archaic spelling of the mountainous Central Asian republic, capital Dushanbe (11) |
| ACCENTOR | Sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia (8) |
| CANARIES | A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish pro |
| AFGHANISTAN | Central Asian country, the capital of which is Kabul (11) |
| KAZAKH | Native of a central Asian country |
| UZBEKISTAN | Central Asian country whose capital is Tashkent |
| TAJIKISTAN | Central Asian country with 9m population, capital Dushanbe (10) |
| AFGHAN | Citizen of a central Asian country |
| TURKMENISTAN | Central Asian country, much of which is covered by the Karakum Desert (12) |
| STAN | Central Asian country name suffix |
| KYRGYZSTAN | Central Asian country whose currency is the som (10) |
| BACTRIAN | A two-humped camel, a beast of burden in central Asian deserts (8) |
| TASHKENT | Engineer shaken when entering dry Central Asian capital (8) |
| KAZAKHSTAN | Central Asian country whose national flag contains a gold sun and flying eagle on a light blue field (10) |
| ARMENIA | W Asian country, formerly part of USSR (7) |
| TAIWAN | Asian country formerly called Formosa (6) |
| MYANMAR | Asian country formerly known as Burma (7) |
| SNOWLEOPARD | A large feline of mountainous regions of Central Asia (4,7) |
| KASHMIRI | Money, nothing else, say, I obtain from a central Asian |
