| PRIYANKA | Nick Jonas' wife who returned to India and praised Dehli's beauty.(first name) (8) |
| PAUL | British actor from Lagaan who returned to India for celebrations. (First name) (4) |
| AMERICAN | _ Beauty, first Best Picture Oscar winner of the new millennium (8) |
| DISHEVEL | Beauty, first female, then large and untidy |
| INDIA | New Dehli's home |
| ADULATED | Go on to say about union, dead and praised (8) |
| EXTOLLED | Was informed, we hear, and praised (8) |
| FINNIGAN | Full name of Tony Hutchinson's best mate, who returned to Chester for his stag night (4,8) |
| SIMPERED | Smiled facetiously and praised me, leaving a mess |
| RHIANNON | Brash lady who returned to Erinsborough for a short time recently (8,5) |
| OSBOURNE | Son of Ken Barlow who returned to Coronation Street last year (6,8) |
| HARRISON | Ford who returned to Indiana three times |
| OLDER | Like Kevin Jonas, vis-a-vis Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas |
| SMOKE | Holy ___! drama film starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel about a woman who travels to India and has a spiritual awakening |
| CHINA | Country that recently launched direct flights to India and is involved in high-level cultural and people-to-people exchanges. (5) |
| SATINWOOD | Tree of the rue family native to India and southeast Asia, harvested for its hard, yellowish-brown wood |
| AMADEUS | It beat "A Passage to India" and "Places in the Heart" for Best Picture |
| KIDBROTHER | *Nick Jonas, to Joe Jonas |
| HAPPINESS | ___ Begins fifth studio album by Nick Jonas' (birthday today) band Jonas Brothers that came out in 2019 |
| BACON | Nick Jonas single that'd be apt to play during breakfast |