| SINGH | Name originating in India that derives from the Sanskrit word for lion (5) |
| HINDI | Language of India that derives from Sanskrit |
| DESI | Descriptor for a person from the Indian subcontinent, derived from the Sanskrit word for "country" |
| AVATAR | An embodiment of something abstract (and the name of a James Cameron film), which comes from the Sanskrit word for incarnation of a deity |
| SRI | Title taken from the Sanskrit word for "beauty" |
| HORTENSE | French female name, originating from the Latin for gardener (8) |
| UCHE | Name originating among the Igbo people shared by British rugby player ___ Oduoza and Nigerian football player ___ Okafor |
| SERGIO | Popular Italian, Spanish and Portuguese male name, originating from an old Roman family (6) |
| ALIAH | The Sanskrit word for 'supreme' (5) |
| ANISH | The Sanskrit word for 'supreme' (5) |
| PADMA | Sanskrit word for the sacred lotus flower/plant, taken as the Bangladeshi name for the Ganges (5) |
| SIMBA | Swahili word for lion, used as the name of the Disney character The Lion King (5) |
| MAHAL | Word for "palace" in India that, paired with "Taj", refers to the "crown of buildings" in Agra (5) |
| MUDRA | Sanskrit word for "seal, sign, token", thus for any of the symbolic hand gestures in Hindu ceremonies, classical Indian dance, statuary and yoga (5) |
| ANAND | Yoga discipline named after the Sanskrit word meaning knowledge or wisdom (5) |
| ZEPTO | Quick commerce platform in India that introduced Apple products on its platform. (5) |
| LEMON | Relation of lime and bergamot; or, a word for something defective that derives from the aforesaid citrus being the lowest value symbol on some fruit machines (5) |
| RUADE | Boy's name that derives from the Irish for 'red king' (5) |
| RISHI | From Sanskrit, word for a Hindu sage or a saint (5) |
| TETRA | Aquarium fish with a name that derives from the Greek for "four-sided wing" |
