| CALCUTTA | Former name of the E Indian city of Kolkata, officially changed in 2001 (8) |
| KALI | Hindu goddess of destruction, from whom the city of Kolkata is thought to be named (4) |
| LISABONET | Professional name of the actress who officially changed her name to Lilakoi Moon in 1993 |
| MUMBAI | What was the city of Bombay's name officially changed to in 1995? (6) |
| POONA | Temple of E. Indian city: var. |
| BANGALORE | Stop girl meeting soldiers near E Indian city |
| TONBRIDGE | Kent town whose spelling with a "U" was officially changed to an "O" in 1893 (9) |
| TAJMAHAL | Ivory-white marble mausoleum in the Indian city of Agra (3,5) |
| ECONOMIC | One of the "E"s" in E.E.C. |
| ONLYFANS | 21st-century site that "helped mainstream the concept of the e-girlfriend," according to a Vox article |
| MADRAS | The former official name of the Indian city of Chennai (6) |
| ESCHERICHIA | Full form of the E in the name of the gramnegative bacterium E. coli (11) |
| NASSER | ___ Hussain, England former cricket captain born in the Indian city of Chennai in 1968 (6) |
| NUTMEG | Name the hard, aromatic seed of the fruit of an E Indian tree, used as a spice (6) |
| BOMBAY | Official name of the western Indian city of Mumbai before 1995 (6) |
| CHENNAI | Modern name, since 1996, for the Indian city of Madras (7) |
| ATOM | (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the e |
| ALIAS | Portion of the e-mail address that appears to the left of the @ symbol (5) |
| CHANDANNAGAR | City and former French colony north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India (12) |
| PAISA | An E. Indian monetary unit, the 100th part of the rupee. |
