| Clues | Answers |
| Connoisseur engaging US vice-president and British PM in conversation? | GOURMET |
| Country in India surrounded by wild bears | SERBIA |
| Course: figure office has cancelled it in city | TENDENCY |
| Cricketing format has transformed Indian state | ODISHA |
| Custom of south-west India beat it! | GOAWAY |
| Darn pain! | STITCH |
| Dig ground initially bare? | NUDGE |
| Dry tree made for squirrel | SECRETE |
| Finish off muck guzzling the stew | DITHER |
| Good capacity for curry | GROOM |
| Honour girl crossing over the hill and sea | GOLDMEDAL |
| Hot drink, case of cocoa fed to a sheep | AMERICANO |
| Indian dish greater in US city | BALTIMORE |
| Inhospitable housing union men built with pillars | COLUMNED |
| Item of furniture, very Indian? | DIVAN |
| Lover tickling Maria, not Oscar | INAMORATO |
| Mean for name, say, to have an M removed in Indian city | AGRA |
| New Delhi bad, or unsentimental | HARDBOILED |
| Popular Indian leader, shut your face! | MODISH |
| Recollection of passage from intermezzo, so romantically, tenderly played | AMOROSO |
| Ring doctor about card game | OMBRE |
| Scientific study of scalp thus prodding nit | ASTROPHYSICS |
| Soother, eg Assam? | BACKRUB |
| Supporters voted, as a Liberal stuffed by Conservative | ADVOCATES |
| The end of my eight gates ajar, all opening | OMEGA |
| Twice make for poser | FASHIONMODEL |
| Unsatisfying resolution where claimant I gathered has got cross | ANTICLIMAX |
| Voices heard in paper, reportedly? | CHOIR |
| Wheeze while visiting doctor | GASP |
| Wobbly flab in store where one’s fed breakfast and evening meal | HALFBOARD |
