| SITAR | Instrument from the Persian for "three-stringed" |
| TEAPOY | From Hindi and Persian for "three leg", a small ordinary tripod-like table first, later one with a caddy for chai (6) |
| MUST | From the Latin for "young wine", word for freshly crushed grape juice before or during fermentation; or, from the Persian for "drunk", a frenzied state of bull elephants (4) |
| CHESS | From the Persian for "king", a game from whose name a word for a pattern of squares derives (5) |
| KIOSKS | From the Persian for "pavilions", a word for bandstands, news-stands, telephone boxes or small shops (6) |
| JULEP | From the Persian for "rose water", a word for sweet or syrupy sometimes- medicated liquor originally, but now an iced and sugared drink of bourbon prepared with mint water (5) |
| SEERSUCKER | Name of a fabric, from the Persian for "milk and sugar" |
| ROOK | Chess piece whose name is derived from the Persian for "chariot" |
| KHAKI | Color from the Persian for "dust" |
| DERVISH | Member of one of several ascetic Muslim religious orders named from the Persian for 'poor' (7) |
| VIOLADAGAMBA | Instrument from the Italian for "fiddle for the leg" |
| ETUDE | A short musical composition for a solo instrument, from the French for 'study' (5) |
| GLOCKENSPIEL | Instrument from the German for "bell play" |
| XYLOPHONE | Instrument from the Greek for "wooden sound" |
| UKULELE | Instrument from the Hawaiian for "dancing flea" |
| CASTANETS | Instrument from the Spanish for "chestnuts" |
| CELESTA | Instrument from the French for "heavenly" |
| UKE | Stringed instrument from the UK (England) (3) |
| OBOE | Instrument from the French for "high wood" |
| GLENS | Good optical instrument from the valleys (5) |
