| Its flag has two green stars | 28 |
| Golan Heights claimant | 22 |
| Where piasters are currency | 27 |
| War-torn nation since 2011 | 26 |
| Turkey is on top of it | 22 |
| Turkey appears on top of it | 27 |
| Site of ancient Palmyra | 23 |
| Piaster production place | 24 |
| Part of the Hittite Empire | 26 |
| One of the Levant States | 24 |
| Neighbor of Lebanon and Iraq | 28 |
| Nation with 2011 protests | 25 |
| Modern home of ancient Ebla | 27 |
| Its capital is Damascus | 23 |
| It has Turkey on top of it? | 27 |
| Israel-Turkey separator | 23 |
| Iraq's western neighbor | 27 |
| Damascus is it's capital | 28 |
| Damascene's homeland | 24 |
| Bashar Assad's land | 23 |
| Bashar al-Assad's land | 26 |
| Ancient Mideast language | 24 |
| Ancient Aramaic language | 24 |
| Mideast's ___ Desert | 24 |
| Like Steve Jobs's father | 28 |
| 2005 George Clooney movie | 25 |
| One side in Mideast talks | 25 |
| Otologist's device | 22 |
| It's used for shots | 23 |
| You can get a shot in with it | 29 |
| Nurse's instrument | 22 |
| Fluid-injecting device | 22 |
| You're stuck with them? | 27 |
| Junkie's injectors | 22 |
| Mideast native: Comb. form | 26 |
| Damascans et al.: Abbr. | 23 |
| Word with cough or corn | 23 |
| Word with maple or corn | 23 |
| Symbol of sentimentality | 24 |
| Silver dollar covering | 22 |
| It's poured at breakfast | 28 |
| It flows from some fountains | 28 |
| Ingredient of some pralines | 27 |
| Barista's flavoring | 23 |
| Pancake-house freebies | 22 |
| The 'S' of GPS: Abbr. | 29 |
| Part of PBS, for short | 22 |
| With op, a computer manager | 27 |
| The "S" of GPS | 24 |
| The "S" in GPS | 24 |
| The 'S' of TBS: Abbr. | 29 |
| The 'S' of OS: Abbr. | 28 |
| The 'S' of DOS: Abbr. | 29 |
| Part of MS-DOS (abbr.) | 22 |
| Part of Mac OSX: Abbr. | 22 |
| MS-DOS component: Abbr. | 23 |
| Methodology, for short | 22 |
| Lead-in to "ops" | 26 |
| Federal Reserve, e.g.: Abbr. | 28 |
| Configuration file ext. | 23 |
| An acre has 4,840: Abbr. | 24 |
| ___ admin (computer techie) | 27 |
| Big name in food service | 24 |
| Major food service company | 26 |
| Food service industry giant | 27 |
| Food distribution giant | 23 |
| Big name in food distribution | 29 |
| Chat room moderator, possibly | 29 |
| Bulletin board overseer | 23 |
| Online bulletin board runner | 28 |
| Online bulletin board mgr. | 26 |
| On-line community manager | 25 |
| Cyberspace administrator | 24 |
| Computer bulletin board mgr. | 28 |
| Chat-room administrator | 23 |
| Bulletin board overseers | 24 |
| Cyberspace V.I.P.'s | 23 |
| Wd. with solar or school | 24 |
| School supt.'s domain | 25 |
| S, in some ntwk. names | 22 |
| Pass-fail, e.g.: Abbr. | 22 |
| Method of order: Abbr. | 22 |
| Kind of analyst: Abbr. | 22 |
| Gambler's aid: Abbr. | 24 |
| Functionary group: abbr. | 24 |
| DOS's "S" | 23 |
| Dewey Decimal ___: Abbr. | 24 |
| It may be beaten or bucked | 26 |
| Word with solar or nervous | 26 |
| Gambler's strategy | 22 |
| Word with solar or sound | 24 |
| Word with solar or school | 25 |
| Word with metric or solar | 25 |
| Word with metric or merit | 25 |
| Word with metric or honor | 25 |
| Word with buddy or honor | 24 |
| Word with buddy or binary | 25 |
| The “S” of CBS | 22 |
| The "S" of DOS | 24 |
| The "S" in CBS | 24 |