Across
- 2. Sitar star
- 5. CNN medical reporter
- 9. Emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, called "the great"
- 10. Fabled lamp bearer
- 11. Chittagong coin
- 12. Deep-fat fried bread
- 13. Sri Lanka's national sport
- 15. Village in India where Clive's 1757 victory established British supremacy
- 17. Royal bride of 1981
- 19. Nepalese dumpling
- 24. holy
- 26. Sikhs' Golden Temple home
- 28. Horton, Babar or Dumbo
- 31. The capital of Bangladesh
- 33. ___ Chomsky
- 35. Birds symbolizing peace
- 36. Singer whose first album was Come Away With Me
- 37. Meat-on-a-stick dish
- 39. cow pie
- 40. Rudyard Kipling's jungle boy
- 41. Famed 1969 music festival
- 42. Naturally it puts us in the shade, also the third instalment of The Twilight Saga film series.
- 43. Religion that originated in the Punjab
- 46. Part of a mobile phone which stores subscriber information
- 47. Nun's promise
Down
- 1. system which favours males
- 3. Indian attendant of Queen Victoria, also subject of a 2017 film
- 4. book in a mosque
- 6. Waters between Africa and Australia
- 7. Fled Tibet for asylum in India in 1959
- 8. pink city
- 14. Hindu text on eroticism
- 16. Expensive orange-yellow flavoring agent
- 18. Tarzan lived there
- 20. 80s Pakistani leader
- 21. Myanmar, at one time
- 22. Small Sikh sword
- 23. Also known as peafowl
- 25. Bumble meetups, also oasis fruit (pl.)
- 27. Style of yoga in a heated room
- 29. Urdu, for one
- 30. Board game that originated as Moksha Patam
- 32. Noted Mogul emperor
- 34. Mandela's land
- 38. A corrupt payment
- 44. Indian Ocean island country
- 45. Before Christ
