| BOSE | Satyendra Nath _; Indian physicist (4) |
| KOVIND | Ram Nath ___ : 14th President of India (6) |
| ALOK | ____ Nath, Indian film character actor |
| STAR | El Nath, e.g. |
| PREM | ___ Nath: popular villain of Hindi cinema? |
| NOSE | Spot for a Hindu bride's nath |
| PAUL | Satya ___, Indian designer label known for Indian prints |
| PANT | Rishabh ___, Indian cricketer (4) |
| PURI | Om ___, Indian actor who starred as George Khan in 1999 comedy-drama film East is East (4) |
| CHAI | Masala __: Indian beverage |
| SHAH | Naseeruddin ___, Indian film and stage actor and director |
| DEOL | Sunny ____, Indian politician, film actor, director, and producer |
| BEDI | Dr. Kiran ___, Indian politician, social activist, and former tennis player |
| SINO | __-Indian War |
| GUHA | Ramachandra ____, Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual |
| ROTI | Jowar _ (Indian flatbread) |
| RAMAN | Acclaimed Indian physicist |
| RAJ | Indian physicist on 'The Big Bang Theory' |
| BOSON | Subatomic particle named for an Indian physicist |
| VIKRAM | ____ Sarabhai, Indian physicist, astronomer and father of Mallika Sarabhai |