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