| Arid expanse of western Asia | 28 |
| 1962 Best Picture setting | 25 |
| "Lawrence of ---" | 27 |
| "Lawrence of __" | 26 |
| Asia's ___ Peninsula | 24 |
| Kind of horse or camel | 22 |
| The Black Stallion, e.g. | 24 |
| "The ___ Nights" | 26 |
| Thoroughbred's progenitor | 29 |
| Native of Damascus or Baghdad | 29 |
| Napoleon's war horse | 24 |
| ___ Horse; or desert dweller | 28 |
| Official language of Libya | 26 |
| Mubarak's language | 22 |
| Like numerals 0-9, e.g. | 23 |
| Like 0 through 9, e.g. | 22 |
| Jordanian's language | 24 |
| Its alphabet starts with alif | 29 |
| It's heard in Palestine | 27 |
| Hussein's language | 22 |
| Egypt's official language | 29 |
| Describing our numeral system | 29 |
| Describing our numbers | 22 |
| 1, 2, 3, vis-a-vis I, II, III | 29 |
| 1, 2 vis-Ã -vis I, II | 23 |
| Coffee alternative to robusta | 29 |
| Like land with rich soil | 24 |
| Capable of being cultivated | 27 |
| Land fit for cultivation | 24 |
| Good for farming, as land | 25 |
| Fit for use as farmland | 23 |
| Many Middle Easterners | 22 |
| Some Middle Easterners | 22 |
| Swift, graceful horses | 22 |
| Most Al Jazeera viewers | 23 |
| Certain League members | 22 |
| Most Bahrain inhabitants | 24 |
| Certain Middle Easterners | 25 |
| They're rolling in petrol | 29 |
| Scheherazade's people | 25 |
| Scheherazade and Ali Baba | 25 |
| Rub' al Khali residents | 27 |
| One side in a 1967 war | 22 |
| Most Saudis and Iraqis | 22 |
| Most Middle Easterners | 22 |
| Members of Hamas, e.g. | 22 |
| Many Al Jazeera viewers | 23 |
| Libyans and Bahrainis, e.g. | 27 |
| Ishmael's descendants | 25 |
| Emirate natives, mostly | 23 |
| Egyptians, for example | 22 |
| Descendants of Ishmael | 22 |
| Day of Ashura celebrants | 24 |
| Burka and burnoose wearers | 26 |
| Bahrainians, for example | 24 |
| "Beau Geste" extras | 29 |
| "The Sheik of ___" | 28 |
| Sheik's land, in song | 25 |
| Sheik's home, in song | 25 |
| "The Sheik of ---" | 28 |
| Valentino's film realm | 26 |
| Sheikdom in a jazz standard | 27 |
| Sheik's land, in film | 25 |
| Sheik's land, in a song | 27 |
| Sheik's home, in poems | 26 |
| Sheik's domain of song | 26 |
| Musical sheik's domain | 26 |
| Mideast region, poetically | 26 |
| "The Sheikh of ---" | 29 |
| Boastful weaver of myth | 23 |
| Weaver turned into a spider | 27 |
| Mythical tapestry artisan | 25 |
| Girl turned into a spider | 25 |
| West Bank leader Yasir | 22 |
| Peace Nobelist of 1994 | 22 |
| Former Palestinian leader | 25 |
| Abbas's predecessor | 23 |
| Abbas' predecessor | 22 |
| 2000 Camp David visitor | 23 |
| Palestinian leader Yasir | 24 |
| Palestinian chief Yasir | 23 |
| Onetime West Bank leader | 24 |
| Name in Palestinian history | 27 |
| First of a Kipling trio | 23 |
| Part of a Kipling line | 22 |
| One of a literary trio | 22 |
| Start of a Kipling trio | 23 |
| One of Kipling's three | 26 |
| "___ in Harlem" | 25 |
| Fly into ___ (become furious) | 29 |
| Flew into ___ (got furious) | 27 |
| "___ to Live" | 23 |
| O'Hara novel: 1949 | 22 |
| "Good night, Grace" | 29 |
| Barcelona's region | 22 |
| Ancient Spanish kingdom | 23 |
| Medieval Spanish kingdom | 24 |
| Ferdinand's kingdom | 23 |
| Zaragoza is its capital | 23 |
| Whence Henry's Catherine | 28 |