| PACHISI | Ancient Indian game similar to backgammon played on a cross-shaped board (7) |
| TRICTRAC | A game similar to backgammon, associated with France (8) |
| PARCHEESI | Game with a cross-shaped board |
| KHIASMA | I plunged into abyss by a cross-shaped connection |
| CRUCIFY | Execute on a cross (7) |
| MEEPLES | Person-shaped board game tokens |
| CRUCIAT | He tortures, even puts on a cross |
| CHIASMA | Charles, graduate, had about one cross-shaped connection (7) |
| SHIKARI | An Indian game hunter |
| MAURYAN | Ancient Indian empire centred at Pataliputra (later Patna) near the junction of the Son and Ganges (Ganga) rivers. It lasted from about 321 to 185 BCE. (7) |
| JAINISM | An ancient Indian religion (7) |
| ANASAZI | Ancient Indian of the Southwest |
| RIGVEDA | Ancient Indian sacred book (3,4) |
| TRANSEPT | Either of the two wings of a cross-shaped church, at right angles to the nave (8) |
| POZIDRIV | Type of screwdriver with a cross-shaped tip (8) |
| LUDO | Board and counters game based on the Indian game, Pachisi |
| CHESS | Two-player strategy board game based on the Indian game chaturanga |
| AGONY | Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe |
| CRUCIFER | From the Latin for "cross", a person carrying a small rood in a church procession; or, a brassica with four-petalled cross-shaped flowers, such as broccoli, cabbage, collard, kale, mustard or turnip ( |
| CHATURANGA | Which ancient Indian board game is considered to be the predecessor to chess? (10) |
