| RAMBUTAN | Fruit of the sapindaceous tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum, named from the Malay word for 'hair' (8) |
| PANGOLIN | Armoured edentate mammal of Africa and Asia named from the Malay for 'rolling over'; the scaly anteater (8) |
| SYCAMORE | A large deciduous tree of the Sapindaceous family (8) |
| CAPELLI | Italian word for hair |
| CATACOMB | Underground cemetery for feline with a tool for hair (8) |
| PEROXIDE | A bleaching agent for hair (8) |
| SUMATRA | Mountainous island in W Indonesia, in the Greater Sunda Islands, separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca |
| IKAT | Derived from a Malay word meaning to tie/bind, a traditional method of warp dyeing/weaving in Central Asia that was a favourite of the late Oscar de la Renta (4) |
| CADDY | From a Malay word denoting the weight of a small packet of tea, a box or jar in which to store said leaves (5) |
| GINGHAM | From the Malay meaning "striped", a check fabric used for country shirts, jam jar covers, table cloths, hair accessories, dresses, patchwork and bed linen (7) |
| UPAS | From the Malay meaning "poison", a tree with sap used to bestow a lethal tip on an arrow (4) |
| AGAR | Malay word for a seaweed-derived jelly-like substance used in petri dishes or as a food thickener (4) |
| SARONG | Garment whose name comes from the Malay for "sheath" |
| LORIKEET | Parrot from the Malay Archipelago (8) |
| RAJA | Malay word for "king" |
| ORANG | Malay word for "man" |
| KRA | Isthmus of ___, narrow neck of the Malay Peninsula between the Gulf of Thailand and the Bay of Benga |
| MALACCA | Strait of ____ , body of water separating the Malay peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra (7) |
| PHUKET | Largest island of Thailand, in the Andaman Sea off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula (6) |
| ORANGUTAN | Literally meaning "man of the forest" in the Malay language, the largest arboreal mammal, genus Pongo (9) |
