| NURMAHAL | Wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir from 1611 until his death in 1627 (3,5) |
| AGRA | Site of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's tomb (4) |
| AUROCHS | Extinct member of the cattle tribe also called urus, the last specimen of which is believed to have died in Poland in 1627 (7) |
| TAJMAHAL | Marble mausoleum built in Agra by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his late wife (3,5) |
| HATFIELD | Town in Hertfordshire, site of a Jacobean courtier's house built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, with gardens designed by John Tradescant the Elder (8) |
| OLDDELHI | Walled city in India founded as Shahjahanabad by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639 |
| HATHAWAY | Wife of playwright William Shakespeare from 1582 until his death in 1616 (8) |
| HIROHITO | The 124th emperor of Japan, from 1926 until his death in 1989 (8) |
| JOHNPEEL | Longest-serving of the original Radio 1 DJs broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in Cuzco in 2004 (4,4) |
| POMPIDOU | President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974 (8) |
| KASHMIR | Disputed region of the Indian subcontinent where the Mughal emperor Jahangir built the Shalimar Gar |
| JAHANGIR | Early 17th-century Mughal emperor, whose name may be translated as "world seizer" (8) |
| JOHNPAUL | --- --- II, Pope who served from 1978 until his death in 2005 (4,4) |
| MRHOOPER | Human Sesame Street character played by Will Lee from 1969 until his death in 1982 |
| TENNYSON | Who was Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892? (8) |
| AKBAR | --- the Great, Mughal Emperor from 1556 to his death in 1605 (5) |
| HALAL | Only some of Mughal alphabet is permitted in Islam (5) |
| KORMA | Creamy mildly-spiced Indian curry of Mughal origin named from the Urdu for 'braise' (5) |
| DUKEOFMILAN | Title usurped from Prospero by his brother Antonio in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) |
| HENRYHUDSON | Man set adrift in James Bay in 1611 by his mutinous crew (5,6) |
