| SHAHJAHAN | Mogul emperor of India who commissioned the building of the Taj Mahal in 1632 (4,5) |
| SAMBROWNE | Military belt with a strap over the shoulder - it was named after its inventor, an officer of the British Army in India who lost an arm in the 1858 Mutiny (3,6) |
| CHEOPS | Greek name of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (c. 2575-2465 BCE), who commissioned the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza (6) |
| AURANGZEB | Sixth of the 20 Mughal emperors of India (1658-1707), son and successor of Shah Jahan (9) |
| VESPASIAN | Emperor who ordered the building of the Colosseum |
| ROOSEVELT | Which US president organised the building of the Panama Canal in 1903 and was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize? (9) |
| AGRIPPA | Roman general who commissioned the building of the Pantheon (7) |
| AGRA | City where Shah Jahan commissioned the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal. (4) |
| ARCDE | Napoleon commissioned the building of the Paris monument, the ... Triomphe (3,2) |
| DIAGRAM | It illustrates site of the Taj Mahal in an ill-lit setting (7) |
| GAVAI | Last name of the Chief Justice of India who highlighted the importance of awareness for rights at a legal conference in Srinagar. (5) |
| AKBAR | 16th-century Mogul emperor of India |
| NIRMALA | ____ Sitharaman, current Finance Minister of India, who formerly served as the Defence Minister of India |
| GANDHI | Political and spiritual leader of India who pioneered the resistance of tyranny through nonviolent civil disobedience (6) |
| INDIRAGANDHI | Daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and prime minister of India who was assassinated in 1984 |
| HIRAM | King of Tyre who assisted Solomon in the building of the temple (I, Kings, 5) (5) |
| PERICLES | What is the name of the Athenian statesman who commissioned the Parthenon, and also the title character in a play by Shakespeare? (8) |
| TAJMAHAL | A white marble mausoleum in Agra, India, commissioned by emperor Shah Jahan in 1632 (3,5) |
| ASHCROFT | Actress in A Passage to India who was the voice of Hilda in When the Wind Blows (8) |
| SHAH | ___ Jahan (Mogul emperor who built the Taj Mahal for his late wife Mumtaz Mahal) |
