| Air Quality, for one | 20 |
| Pointing digit | 14 |
| Handy pointer | 13 |
| Telephone dialer? | 17 |
| Pointer, formally | 17 |
| It may make a point | 19 |
| Jaipur's locale | 19 |
| Neighbor of Pakistan | 20 |
| Pakistan neighbor | 17 |
| Kind of ink | 11 |
| Where to look for sacred cows? | 30 |
| Kipling's homeland | 22 |
| Da Gama destination | 19 |
| Land of the Taj Mahal | 21 |
| "The Jungle Book" setting | 35 |
| "Gunga Din" setting | 29 |
| Mumbai's nation | 19 |
| Gandhi's land | 17 |
| Neighbor of Nepal | 17 |
| Sari site | 9 |
| Kipling story locale | 20 |
| Home to more than a billion | 27 |
| Forster's "A Passage to ___" | 42 |
| Forster subject | 15 |
| Calcutta's country | 22 |
| British Commonwealth member | 27 |
| Ashley Wilkes's sister | 26 |
| Where the Ganges flows | 22 |
| Where rupees are spent | 22 |
| Where New Delhi is | 18 |
| Type of ink | 11 |
| Pearl Mosque country | 20 |
| Number two in population | 24 |
| New Delhi is its capital | 24 |
| Mumbai's land | 17 |
| Land of a billion | 17 |
| Kipling's birthplace | 24 |
| Home of Bollywood | 17 |
| Calcutta's home | 19 |
| "Song of ___" | 23 |
| Where to spend rupees | 21 |
| Where rajahs ruled | 18 |
| Uttar Pradesh's country | 27 |
| Thackeray's birthplace | 26 |
| Shillong's site | 19 |
| Sari state? | 11 |
| Poona's place | 17 |
| One of the BRICS countries | 26 |
| New Delhi's country | 23 |
| Nepal's neighbor | 20 |
| Mumbai's country | 20 |
| Mahout's place | 18 |
| Kind of ink or rubber | 21 |
| Ink type | 8 |
| Ink or rubber | 13 |
| Home of the sacred cow | 22 |
| Gandhi's homeland | 21 |
| Country with the national anthem "Jana Gana Mana" | 59 |
| Country of over one billion | 27 |
| Columbus's elusive destination | 34 |
| Chennai is there | 16 |
| Calcutta's land | 19 |
| Bollywood's home | 20 |
| Bangladesh neighbor | 19 |
| Bangalore's land | 20 |
| "Gandhi" setting | 26 |
| "A Passage To ___" (1984) | 35 |
| ''Song of ___'' (Rimsky-Korsakov) | 49 |
| ''Gunga Din'' setting | 37 |
| World powerhouse in cricket | 27 |
| Where to spend a rupee | 22 |
| Where the Sepoy Rebellion occurred | 34 |
| Where Rushdie's roots are | 29 |
| Where mahouts toil | 18 |
| Where Kipling was born | 22 |
| Where Darjeeling is | 19 |
| Where Columbus wanted to go | 27 |
| Where Columbus meant to go | 26 |
| Where a customer support call may be received | 45 |
| Vast subcontinent | 17 |
| Vasco da Gama destination | 25 |
| Variety of ink | 14 |
| Subcontinental nation | 21 |
| Subcontinent | 12 |
| Soul singer Arie | 16 |
| Site of much outsourcing | 24 |
| Setting for a Forster novel | 27 |
| Setting for "Slumdog Millionaire" | 43 |
| Setting for "Siddhartha" | 34 |
| Sepoy Rebellion site | 20 |
| Secondmost populous place | 25 |
| Second-most-populous country | 28 |
| Second most populous country | 28 |
| Second most populated country | 29 |
| Sari country | 12 |
| Salman Rushdie's birthplace | 31 |
| Sacred cows' home | 21 |
| Rani's homeland | 19 |
| Rajah's land | 16 |
| Raja's land | 15 |