| SRILANKA | Island country formerly known as Ceylon separated from India by the Palk Strait (3,5) |
| SRILANKANS | Citizens/inhabitants of the island country formerly known as Ceylon (3,7) |
| LANKA | An Island country formerly known as Ceylon (3,5) |
| SRI | An Island country formerly known as Ceylon (3,5) |
| ADAMSBRIDGE | Line of shoals separating the Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar (5,6) |
| AMRITSAR | Central city of the Sikh religion, founded in 16th-century Punjab, NW India, by the guru Ram Das (8) |
| DJIBOUTI | African country formerly known as the Territory of the Afars and the Issas |
| COLOMBO | Capital of the country formerly known as Ceylon where the vast majority of the world's cinnamon come |
| GHANAIAN | From the country formerly known as the Gold Coast |
| ZIMBABWE | African country formerly known as that on the nameplate of 'Jubilee' 45621 (8) |
| BOTSWANA | Country formerly known as Bechuanaland (8) |
| THAILAND | Country formerly known as Siam (8) |
| ESWATINI | Country formerly known as Swaziland (8) |
| ETHIOPIA | Country formerly known as Abyssinia (8) |
| SRILANKAN | Native of country formerly known as Ceylon (3,6) |
| EMBARGO | Legal stoppage of commerce, such as the one imposed upon India by the US and Japan in 1998 |
| CAST | Begin fishing class in India by the sound (4) |
| RAJASTHAN | Largest state of India by area, in the north-west on the border with Pakistan; capital, Jaipur (9) |
| TAIWANESE | From the country formerly known as Formosa (9) |
| THAI | From the country formerly known as Siam |
