| Mideast bigwigs | 15 |
| Mideast bigwigs (Var.) | 22 |
| Mideast bigwigs of old | 22 |
| Mideast body of water | 21 |
| Mideast bread | 13 |
| Mideast breads | 14 |
| Mideast buck | 12 |
| Mideast call to prayer | 22 |
| Mideast campaigns | 17 |
| Mideast canal | 13 |
| Mideast capital | 15 |
| Mideast capital apt for this puzzle | 35 |
| Mideast capital once called Philadelphia | 40 |
| Mideast capital whose name means "the big tree" | 57 |
| Mideast carrier | 15 |
| Mideast cartel | 14 |
| Mideast cartel for short | 25 |
| Mideast cartel: abbr. | 21 |
| Mideast chief | 13 |
| Mideast chief: Var. | 19 |
| Mideast chieftain | 17 |
| Mideast chieftains: Var. | 24 |
| Mideast city | 12 |
| Mideast city on its own gulf | 28 |
| Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come" | 106 |
| Mideast city that was once a British protectorate | 49 |
| Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS | 63 |
| Mideast cobra | 13 |
| Mideast coin | 12 |
| Mideast confections | 19 |
| Mideast council members | 23 |
| Mideast country | 15 |
| Mideast country on the Red Sea | 30 |
| Mideast country: Abbr. | 22 |
| Mideast cuisine staple | 22 |
| Mideast currency | 16 |
| Mideast denizen | 15 |
| Mideast desert | 14 |
| Mideast desert region | 21 |
| Mideast digestive aid | 21 |
| Mideast dignitaries | 19 |
| Mideast dignitary | 17 |
| Mideast diplomat | 16 |
| Mideast diplomat Eban | 21 |
| Mideast dish | 12 |
| Mideast dollar? | 15 |
| Mideast dough | 13 |
| Mideast drink | 13 |
| Mideast drink made from fermented milk | 38 |
| Mideast dry measure | 19 |
| Mideast eggplant-flavored coffee? | 33 |
| Mideast emirate | 15 |
| Mideast entity | 14 |
| Mideast exam administrators? | 28 |
| Mideast expert | 14 |
| Mideast expert, maybe | 21 |
| Mideast export | 14 |
| Mideast exports | 15 |
| Mideast faith | 13 |
| Mideast fed. | 12 |
| Mideast federation: Abbr. | 25 |
| Mideast financial center | 24 |
| Mideast flash point | 19 |
| Mideast fleet | 13 |
| Mideast flier | 13 |
| Mideast gp. | 11 |
| Mideast gp. since 1964 | 22 |
| Mideast greeting | 16 |
| Mideast grp. | 12 |
| Mideast gulf | 12 |
| Mideast gulf city | 17 |
| Mideast Gulf native | 19 |
| Mideast gulf or port | 20 |
| Mideast gulf port | 17 |
| Mideast guns | 12 |
| Mideast habitant | 16 |
| Mideast harbor city | 19 |
| Mideast heights | 15 |
| Mideast honcho | 14 |
| Mideast honorific | 17 |
| Mideast hot spot | 16 |
| Mideast hub | 11 |
| Mideast ice-cream parlor order? | 31 |
| Mideast industry | 16 |
| Mideast initials | 16 |
| Mideast initials of yesteryear | 30 |
| Mideast initials, once | 22 |
| Mideast inits. | 14 |
| Mideast inn | 11 |
| Mideast intelligence organization | 33 |
| Mideast ketch | 13 |
| Mideast king | 12 |
| Mideast king deposed in 1964 | 28 |
| Mideast land | 12 |
| Mideast land since 1948: Abbr. | 30 |
| Mideast land that's French on Saturdays? | 44 |
| Mideast land, for short | 23 |
| Mideast land: Abbr. | 19 |
| Mideast land: Var. | 18 |
| Mideast language | 16 |