| FOSHAN | Industrial city in Guangdong, China, in the Pearl River delta (6) |
| MACAU | Chinese region in the Pearl River Delta |
| MEI | RIVER IN GUANGDONG |
| POISON | In Act V, the King says, "Hamlet, this pearl is thine. Here's to thy health. Give him the cup." What's in the pearl? |
| CANTON | The former name of Guangdong province, after which a Chinese language is named (6) |
| LITCHI | Nut native to the Guangdong and Fujian provinces |
| TENALI | City and major railway junction in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, near the Krishna River delta (6) |
| ARGUED | Had a row in marshy French region, avoiding river delta (6) |
| NAILED | Secured area in African river delta (6) |
| HONGKONG | City at the mouth of the Pearl River |
| HONG | With 42-Down, city on the Pearl River Delta |
| SILTED | Like a river delta |
| MEKONG | Major Vietnam river delta |
| FRASER | Vancouver's ___ River Delta |
| INNOF | Ingrid Bergman becomes a missionary in China in the 1958 classic, The ... The Sixth Happiness (3,2) |
| INN | Ingrid Bergman becomes a missionary in China in the 1958 classic, The ... Of The Sixth Happiness |
| JACKSON | State capital on the Pearl River |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| CANTONMENT | Soldiers from city on Pearl River served time in military camp (10) |
| POLO | Venetian family of pioneering travellers, the most famous member of whom apparently spent 17 years in China in the late 13th century (4) |
