| Hurler Hideki | 13 |
| Former Yankee Hideki | 20 |
| Ex-Yankee Hideki | 16 |
| Big-league hurler Hideki ___ | 28 |
| 1999 Yankee pitcher | 19 |
| 1999 Yankee | 11 |
| Prone to anger, old style | 25 |
| Prone to anger | 14 |
| Enoch's son | 15 |
| Moslem decree | 13 |
| Turkish decree | 14 |
| Sultan's decree | 19 |
| Eastern decree | 14 |
| Ukase's relative | 20 |
| Turkish edict | 13 |
| Sultanic say-so | 15 |
| Sultan's say-so | 19 |
| Islamic fiat | 12 |
| Decree of a sort | 16 |
| Decree of a Muslim ruler | 24 |
| Decree by Hussein, e.g. | 23 |
| Moslem decrees | 14 |
| Turkish decrees | 15 |
| Sultans' decrees | 20 |
| Sultanic say-sos | 16 |
| Sultan's decrees | 20 |
| Islamic flats | 13 |
| Decrees in Islam | 16 |
| Payout to many retirees | 23 |
| "This American Life" radio host | 41 |
| Host of public radio's "This American Life" | 57 |
| Host of NPR's "This American Life" | 48 |
| Drinking vessel in which pension funds are stored? | 50 |
| "This American Life" host | 35 |
| App for European train travelers | 32 |
| Type of metal bar | 17 |
| Trolley track | 13 |
| Train track beam | 16 |
| Train track bar | 15 |
| Track segment | 13 |
| Structural bar | 14 |
| Shaped bar | 10 |
| Part of a track that's laid down | 36 |
| Trolley tracks | 14 |
| Train track parts | 17 |
| Certain letter-shaped tracks | 28 |
| Farmer's comment at the poker game | 38 |
| Mideast land: Var. | 18 |
| Where Mosul is: Var. | 20 |
| Saudi Arabian neighbor | 22 |
| Neighbor of Syria: Var. | 23 |
| Asian republic: Var. | 20 |
| Where Karbala is: var. | 22 |
| Saddam Hussein's land: Var. | 31 |
| Oil country: Var. | 17 |
| Neighbour of Syria | 18 |
| Mideastern republic since 1958: Var. | 36 |
| Mideast nation: var. | 20 |
| Iranian neighbor | 16 |
| Iran's foe: Var. | 20 |
| Date-producing country: Var. | 28 |
| Baghdad's land: Var. | 24 |
| Baghdad's country: Var. | 27 |
| Asiatic country | 15 |
| Asian land: Var. | 16 |
| Arab land: Var. | 15 |
| Chemical Ali e.g. | 17 |
| Basra resident: Var. | 20 |
| Baghdad native: Var. | 20 |
| Edomites' leader | 20 |
| Craziness in Tehran? | 20 |
| Pets in modern-day Persia? | 26 |
| 1979-81 hostage situation | 25 |
| Mideast Olympic marathoner's claim? | 39 |
| Attack on a Mideast land that's out of thin air? | 52 |
| Andre Agassi, for one | 21 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini led it in 1979 | 33 |
| Shiraz citizens | 15 |
| Teheran dwellers | 16 |
| Supreme Leader's subjects | 29 |
| Residents of Meshed | 19 |
| Residents of Mashhad | 20 |
| Readers of the newspaper Hamshahri | 34 |
| Present-day Persians | 20 |
| People from Tehran | 18 |
| Like Bani-Sadr | 14 |
| Like a 1980s war | 16 |
| Word form for a Mideast land | 28 |
| Persian: Comb. form | 19 |
| Of a Mideast land: Prefix | 25 |
| Second emissary | 15 |
| Middle East energy crisis? | 26 |
| Drinkware that might be filled with Arabic coffee? | 50 |
| It replaced the Indian rupee in 1932 | 36 |
| Ambiguous headline about Mideast dealings | 41 |
| Many a Mosul inhabitant | 23 |
| Career in Baghdad? | 18 |
| February 1991 headline | 22 |
| 2002 act that refers to "weapons of mass destruction" | 63 |
| Mideastern water carrier? | 25 |