| Oyster Bay hamlet | 17 |
| Natalie Portman's childhood home on Long Island | 51 |
| Long Island community northeast of Mineola | 42 |
| Does ship carpentry | 19 |
| Remove via hose, as gas (Var.) | 30 |
| Suction device: Var. | 20 |
| Suction device (Var.) | 21 |
| Seltzer bottle | 14 |
| Remove via hose, with "off" | 37 |
| Extraction tube: Var. | 21 |
| Draw (off): Var. | 16 |
| Neighbor of Turk. | 17 |
| Damascus is its cap. | 20 |
| Turk. neighbor | 14 |
| Damascus's place: abbr. | 27 |
| Damascus' land: Abbr. | 25 |
| Half of the UAR | 15 |
| Damascus's land: Abbr. | 26 |
| Damascus's land (Abbr.) | 27 |
| Aleppo's land: Abbr. | 24 |
| UAR member | 10 |
| Damascus' land (Abbr.) | 26 |
| Turkey neighbor: abbr. | 22 |
| Pres. Assad's nation | 24 |
| Neighbor of Iraq: Abbr. | 23 |
| Damascus's country: abbr. | 29 |
| UAR country | 11 |
| Six-Day War participant: Abbr. | 30 |
| Six-Day War land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Six-Day War country: Abbr. | 26 |
| Six Day War nat. | 16 |
| Setting of the Druze Mts. | 25 |
| Part of the Holy Land: Abbr. | 28 |
| Part of the former U.A.R.: Abbr. | 32 |
| Pancake cover: Abbr. | 20 |
| Palmyra's locale: Abbr. | 27 |
| Onetime U.A.R. member: Abbr. | 28 |
| Onetime U.A.R. member | 21 |
| Neighbour of Leb. | 17 |
| Neighbor or Leb. | 16 |
| Neighbor of Jord. | 17 |
| Nation on the Med. Sea | 22 |
| Nation in 2011 protest news: Abbr. | 34 |
| Nat. whose anthem is "Homat el Diyar" | 47 |
| Mt. Hermon locale: Abbr. | 24 |
| Med. nation | 11 |
| Leb. ally | 9 |
| Land south of Turk. | 19 |
| Land once partly held by the Crusaders: Abbr. | 45 |
| Land of Damascus, briefly | 25 |
| Land of Damascus (abbr.) | 24 |
| L. Assad setting | 16 |
| Jordan neighbor: Abbr. | 22 |
| Its monetary unit is the pound: Abbr. | 37 |
| Its cap. is Damascus | 20 |
| It's NW of Iraq | 19 |
| ISR neighbour | 13 |
| Hafez al-Assad's land: Abbr. | 32 |
| Former UAR member | 17 |
| Euphrates setting: Abbr. | 24 |
| Damascus locale (abbr.) | 23 |
| Country W of Iraq | 17 |
| Country south of Turk. | 22 |
| Bashar al-Assad's land (abbr.) | 34 |
| Bashar al-Assad's country: abbr. | 36 |
| Assad's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Assad's land (Abbr.) | 24 |
| Arab rep. | 9 |
| Arab League member: Abbr. | 25 |
| An Arab rep. | 12 |
| Aleppo's nat. | 17 |
| Aleppo's land (Abbr.) | 25 |
| A neighbor of Turk. | 19 |
| A Leb. neighbor | 15 |
| ___ Darya, U.S.S.R. river | 25 |
| ___ Darya, Soviet river | 23 |
| ___ Darya, Aral feeder | 22 |
| ___ Darya (Soviet river) | 24 |
| ___ Darya (Aral Sea tributary) | 30 |
| Tom Cruise's birthplace | 27 |
| Where Joe Biden got his J.D. | 28 |
| Port on the Barge Canal | 23 |
| Home of the Orangemen | 21 |
| Big Orange of college sports | 28 |
| ''Salt City'' | 29 |
| Dark-skinned wine grape | 23 |
| Main grape of most wine blends from the Rhone | 45 |
| Hall & Oates' winy expression? | 38 |
| Book in the Septimus Heap series | 32 |
| You might be stuck with them | 28 |
| Medicine injectors | 18 |
| Israel's northern neighbor | 30 |
| Damascus is its capital | 23 |
| Neighbor of Israel | 18 |
| Aleppo's land | 17 |
| UAR component | 13 |
| Part of the Fertile Crescent | 28 |
| Lebanon's neighbor | 22 |
| Fertile Crescent country | 24 |
| Damascus's land | 19 |