| TABLA | Instrument for Zakir Hussain and Anuradha Pal |
| USTAD | Padma Vibhushan awardee Zakir Hussain, for one |
| AHMED | Princely brother of Hussain and Ali, in an "Arabian Nights" tale |
| HUSSAIN | Ex-India President Dr. Zakir ___ (7) |
| NADIYA | --- Hussain, The Great British Bake Off winner and writer for The Times Magazine |
| NASSER | ____ Hussain, cricket commentator and former England cricket team captain (6) |
| NAZEEM | Legally Brown writer and star, - Hussain (6) |
| DICTATORS | Perhaps Saddam Hussain, Milosevic and Castro mingled with leaders of international trade delegation |
| ESSEX | Birth county of former England cricketers Graham Gooch and Nasser Hussain? (5) |
| ERSHAD | Hussain Mohammad ?, president of Bangladesh from 1983-90 |
| ZAKIR | Tabla maestro ___ Hussain (5) |
| IRAQI | Saddam Hussain or his countryman (5) |
| SAGAR | Hussain ____, lake in Hyderabad |
| ADIL | _____ Hussain, Police Commissioner in Delhi Crime |
| AGAKHAN | What title did Karim Al-Hussain inherit in 1957? (3,4) |
| PAINTER | Murugappa interestingly, collected M.F. Hussain, say (7) |
| MUHARRAM | Islamic month marking the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (8) |
| SQUEEGEE | Instrument for removing water and dirt from windows and floors (8) |
| HORNBILL | Instrument for Clinton and Bird? (8) |
| RECORDER | Wind instrument - instrument for transferring sound to tape (8) |
