| UZBEK | Language spoken in Samarkand and Tashkent (5) |
| ATHENS | Capital that's in order in Belfast, Brasilia and Tashkent? (6) |
| TIBET | Part of Asia close to Tashkent, for sure |
| UZBEKISTAN | Lonely Planet's new Best in Travel 2024 offers suggestions in five categories, including this pick, in COUNTRIES, where "the cultural hubs of Samarkand, Bu khara, and Khiva still evoke the era of the |
| FLECKER | Novelist, playwright and poet whose works include The Golden Journey to Samarkand, The Old Ships and Hassan (7) |
| SACRED | Holy area in outskirts of Samarkand |
| TASHKENT | City that replaced Samarkand as capital of Uzbekistan in 1930(8) |
| HYDEPARK | Prayed uneasily in heart of Tashkent and here, in London (4,4) |
| TAMBURLAINE | Mongol ruler of Samarkand until 1405 (11) |
| STOLID | Cold as ice, perhaps, around capital in Tashkent (6) |
| TSARIST | White Russian dresses in clothing from Tashkent (7) |
| ASH | Tree seen in Tashkent? (3) |
| OSH | City near Tashkent |
| UZBEKS | Tashkent natives (6) |
| UGRIC | Language spoken in Hungary and northwestern Siberia (5) |
| FARSI | Language spoken in fairs in Persia (5) |
| TAMIL | Language spoken in Sri Lanka and southern India (5) |
| DUTCH | European language spoken in Aruba and Suriname (5) |
| HINDI | Language spoken in the large and noisy party with no limits (5) |
| LATIN | "Dead language" spoken in ancient Rome, and the linguistic origin of languages at 29a, 44a, 7d and 38d |
