| DAPHNEDUMAURIER | She wrote in Urdu and hampered a translation (6,2,7) |
| TEA | What "chai" means in Urdu and Hindi |
| NANGAPARBAT | Meaning "naked mountain" in Urdu and dubbed the "man-eater", one of the Himalayan eight-thousanders (5,6) |
| OUIDA | She wrote in two languages? Yes |
| SHIRLEY | Charlotte Bronte's 1849 novel, which she wrote in an empty parsonage (7) |
| IMPEDED | Hampered a little devil with a dastardly deed! (7) |
| OURMUTUALFRIEND | Story written in Urdu (tale of rum cocktail) (3,6,6) |
| TALUK | In India and other South Asian countries, a subdivision of a district for revenue purposes; from Urdu and Persian, 'estate' (5) |
| ALOO | Potato in South Asian cuisine; from Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit (4) |
| GOSHT | Transliteration for the Urdu and Persian word for meat, used in Indian cookery |
| DUB | Give a new soundtrack in Urdu, Bengali, etc (3) |
| BALTI | Spicy curry dish whose name means 'bucket' in Urdu, Hindi and Bengali (5) |
| INDIC | Hindi, Urdu and Bengali group |
| INDICTABLE | List of facts in Urdu possibly giving grounds for charge |
| UPLAND | In Urdu oddly, map showing hilly area (6) |
| DUD | Failure to write in Urdu dialect (3) |
| DUPE | In Urdu, perhaps, it means "fool" (4) |
| AAP | "You" in Urdu (3) |
| KHAKI | Dull brownish-yellow cotton or wool fabric whose name means 'dusty' in Urdu (5) |
| JAVANESE | Seven: a translation, following approval, in German language in the East (8) |