| TIRICHMIR | Highest peak in Hindu Kush range (6,3) |
| KHYBER | The ... Pass through the Hindu Kush range was scene of bitter fighting between the British and Afghans from 1878-80 (6) |
| ERICNEWBY | Travel writer noted for his book A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush (4,5) |
| NEWBY | Travel writer noted for A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and A Small Place in Italy (5) |
| ERIC | Forename under which George Newby penned a canon of travelogues, including A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and A Small Place in Italy (4) |
| ASIA | Continent including the Hindu Kush mountain range (4) |
| MAHARISHI | An instructor in Hindu faith |
| MELODRAMA | Ridiculous entertainment, nothing short in Hindu festival (9) |
| SAMARITAN | Old Palestinian Masters in Hindu dress before function (9) |
| BUDTENDER | One who may push the kush |
| KHYBERPASS | Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 |
| BHUMIDEVI | The divine wife of Varaha, an Avatar of Vishnu, in Hindu mythology |
| DRIVINGRANGE | Hard and windblown Hindu Kush, say, where shots fired repeatedly? |
| OUNCE | Creature at one time seen round central part of Hindu Kush? |
| PAMIR | Highland region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan from which several south-central Asian mountain ranges radiate, including the Hindu Kush and the Tian Shan. Its name refers to the grasslands of the easte |
| HINDU | The - Kush is a mountain range in central Asia whose highest peak is Tirich Mir (5) |
| CHASTE | Modest Hindu leader came second in Hindu class (6) |
| ARTHUR | Biological offspring of Kush Kazemi and Stacey Fowler in Eastenders (6) |
| MEROE | Pyramid city in the Kingdom of Kush |
| ARJUNA | In Hindu mythology, the most important of the five princes in the 'Mahabharata' (6) |
