| NAINSOOK | Fine lightweight cotton fabric named from the Hindi for 'eye's delight' (8) |
| CHENILLE | Fabric named from the French word for caterpillar (8) |
| GARAMMASALA | Non-standardised Indian spice mixture named from the Hindi for 'hot spices' (5,6) |
| BHANGRA | British-Asian popular music combining Punjabi folk with western pop, named from the Hindi word for hemp (7) |
| KALEIDOSCOPE | Eye's delight |
| HOTTODDY | From the Hindi for "palmyra juice", a traditional drink of whisky with boiled water, honey, lemon and spices prepared as an old-fashioned cold remedy or warming nightcap (3,5) |
| OSNABURG | Coarse plain-weave linen or cotton fabric named after a city in NW Germany, used for sacks, furnishings etc. (8) |
| PACHISI | Backgammon- or ludo-like Indian game whose name, derived from the Hindi for "25", refers to the highest score achieved with cowrie shells (7) |
| SHAMPOO | Word derived from the Hindi for "to massage" |
| ETAMINES | Lightweight cotton fabrics |
| BUNGALOW | Single-storey house, named after the Hindi word meaning 'a house in the Bengali style' |
| COT | Word from the Hindi for "bedstead" |
| BANDANA | Word from the Hindi for "tie-dye" |
| NABOB | Word from the Hindi for "viceroy" |
| SWAMI | Word from the Hindi for 'master' |
| SANNYASI | From Hindi for "throwing down", an ascetic who has renounced the world by performing their own funeral and abandoning claims to society (8) |
| YOKOZUNA | Wrestling champion of year: fine lightweight Italian one |
| LANGUAGE | Hindi for one, Marathi for another |
| MAHARANI | Hindi for "great queen" |
| JACONET | Lightweight cotton fabric similar to muslin, used for clothing, bandages etc. (7) |
