| GOSHT | Transliteration for the Urdu and Persian word for meat, used in Indian cookery |
| SHERBET | Turkish and Persian word for an exotic drink or refresher prepared from fruit juice, herbs, rose petals etc; sweet fizzy powder eaten with liquorice or a lolly or used to make an early form of pop; wa |
| TALUK | In India and other South Asian countries, a subdivision of a district for revenue purposes; from Urdu and Persian, 'estate' (5) |
| BOEUF | French word for meat traditionally roasted and served with horseradish or cooked in bourguignon sauce (5) |
| YAM | Vegetable found in the Swahili word for "meat" |
| BAZAAR | Persian word for a Middle-Eastern market or souk, typically with stalls selling exotic scents, gold, jewellery, rugs, spices etc; or, in the UK, a sale of miscellany, often for charity (6) |
| IRAN | Country which borders the Caspian Sea in the north and Persian Gulf in the south (4) |
| MUNSHI | Persian word for a teacher bestowed as title by Queen Victoria for her attendant Abdul Karim (6) |
| SEERSUCKER | Light cotton or linen fabric whose name derives from the Persian words for milk and sugar (10) |
| KORMA | Mildly spiced Indian curry named from the Urdu word for 'braise' (5) |
| PARADISE | Persian word for a pleasure ground or royal enclosure that came to mean the garden of Eden; or, heaven (8) |
| KHAKI | Material name derived from a Persian word for "dust" |
| VEAL | Meat used in dishes including the Italian osso buco and the Austrian Wiener schnitzel (4) |
| MODESTMOUSSORGSKY | In a variant from the commonest transliteration, the composer of the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition |
| BLIGHTY | Nickname for Britain or England which comes from the Urdu for "foreign". (7) |
| NANGAPARBAT | Meaning "naked mountain" in Urdu and dubbed the "man-eater", one of the Himalayan eight-thousanders (5,6) |
| STAN | Persian word for 'country' |
| SHAH | Persian word for "king" |
| LAMB | Young sheep, and the meat used in a traditional frito mailorcpuin (4) |
| CHICKEN | Meat used in the dishes Maryland and Marengo (7) |
