| Assad's country | 19 |
| Arab republic | 13 |
| Where Damascus is capital | 25 |
| Where Aleppo is | 15 |
| United Arab Republic member, once | 33 |
| Palmyra setting | 15 |
| Nation abutting Jordan | 22 |
| Middle Eastern republic | 23 |
| Levantine state | 15 |
| Latakia's land | 18 |
| Land south of Turkey | 20 |
| Land of Damascus | 16 |
| Its flag has two green stars | 28 |
| Israel's neighbor | 21 |
| Home of Damascus | 16 |
| Golan Heights claimant | 22 |
| Euphrates River land | 20 |
| Damascus' nation | 20 |
| Damascus' land | 18 |
| Where the Baath Party was founded | 33 |
| Where piasters are currency | 27 |
| Where Homs is | 13 |
| War-torn nation since 2011 | 26 |
| Turkey is on top of it | 22 |
| Turkey appears on top of it | 27 |
| Turkey abutter | 14 |
| Turkey abuts it | 15 |
| Subject of 2011 Arab League sanctions | 37 |
| Site of Latakia | 15 |
| Site of ancient Palmyra | 23 |
| Site of Aleppo | 14 |
| Piaster production place | 24 |
| Part of the UAR, once | 21 |
| Part of the Levant | 18 |
| Part of the Hittite Empire | 26 |
| One of the Levant States | 24 |
| Neighbor of Lebanon and Iraq | 28 |
| Nation with 2011 protests | 25 |
| Modern part of the ancient Hittite empire | 41 |
| Modern home of ancient Ebla | 27 |
| Land on the Euphrates | 21 |
| Land on the eastern Mediterranean | 33 |
| Lake Assad setting | 18 |
| Its capital is Damascus | 23 |
| It's over Jordan, on a map | 30 |
| It has Turkey on top of it? | 27 |
| Israel-Turkey separator | 23 |
| Iraq's western neighbor | 27 |
| Homs is here | 12 |
| Half of the United Arab Republic | 32 |
| Former U.A.R. member | 20 |
| First Arab country to have sanctions imposed on it by the Arab League | 69 |
| Ex-member of U.A.R. | 19 |
| Dead Cities setting | 19 |
| Damascus locus | 14 |
| Damascus is it's capital | 28 |
| Damascene's homeland | 24 |
| Country whose coat of arms is an eagle | 38 |
| Bashar Assad's land | 23 |
| Bashar al-Assad's land | 26 |
| Assad's domain | 18 |
| Aleppo's here | 17 |
| Aleppo's country | 20 |
| Aleppo is here | 14 |
| Al-Assad's land | 19 |
| 1974 Canadian peace keeping locale | 34 |
| Aramaic tongue | 14 |
| Aramaic language | 16 |
| Ancient Mideast language | 24 |
| Ancient Aramaic language | 24 |
| Damascus native | 15 |
| From Damascus, e.g. | 19 |
| Damascus denizen | 16 |
| Neighbor of an Iraqi | 20 |
| Native of Aleppo | 16 |
| Damascus citizen | 16 |
| Six Day War combatant | 21 |
| Resident of Aleppo | 18 |
| Modern resident of ancient Ebla | 31 |
| Mideast's ___ Desert | 24 |
| Man from Damascus | 17 |
| Like Steve Jobs's father | 28 |
| Assad, for one | 14 |
| Aleppo resident | 15 |
| Aleppo citizen | 14 |
| 2005 George Clooney movie | 25 |
| Upcoming George Clooney/Matt Damon thriller | 43 |
| Movie that garnered Clooney an acting Oscar | 43 |
| George Clooney's 2005 Oscar film | 36 |
| Clooney/Damon film about the oil industry | 41 |
| Clooney Oscar film | 18 |
| Clooney movie | 13 |
| 2005 Oscar vehicle for George Clooney | 37 |
| 2005 George Clooney film about petroleum politics | 49 |
| 2005 film for which George Clooney won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar | 70 |
| Region bordered by the Euphrates | 32 |
| Damascus populace | 17 |
| Some Fertile Crescent residents | 31 |
| Pound spenders | 14 |
| People of Aleppo | 16 |