| RAJAH | Word from the Sanskrit for 'king' |
| RAJ | Word from the Sanskrit for "king" |
| PAL | Romany word, from the Sanskrit for "brother", for a chum or mate (3) |
| OPAL | Word from the Sanskrit for "stone" |
| ZEN | Word from the Sanskrit for "absorption" |
| RANI | Word from the Sanskrit for "queen" |
| SARI | Word from the Sanskrit for "cloth strip" |
| RUPEE | Word from the Sanskrit for "silver coin" |
| MELA | From the Sanskrit for "assembly, gathering", word for an Indian fair (4) |
| GURU | Word that comes from the Sanskrit for "mentor" |
| CHAKRA | From the Sanskrit for "wheel", each of the body's seven centres of spiritual power, according to ayurvedic or yogic thought (6) |
| PUNCH | From the Sanskrit for "five kinds" because of its supposed original five ingredients of alcohol, fruit juice, spice, sugar and water, a mixed drink often served from a large bowl (5) |
| DURGA | From the Sanskrit for "inaccessible", the lion- or tiger-riding demon-buffalo-slaying Hindu goddess of valour and victory (5) |
| ANIL | From the Sanskrit for "dark blue", the indigo shrub or its pigment (4) |
| ASANA | From the Sanskrit for "seat", any one of the postures in hatha yoga (5) |
| CHUKKAS | Segments of play in polo whose name, from the Sanskrit for "wheel, circle", reflects turns on the field (7) |
| YODA | Star Wars character, first seen in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, whose name derives from the Sanskrit for 'warrior' (4) |
| LILAC | Flower from the Sanskrit for "dark blue" |
| SRI | Title from the Sanskrit for "beauty" |
| HIMALAYAS | Region from the Sanskrit for "snow abode" |
