| Dennis Miller book "___, Therefore I Am" | 50 |
| Baghdad's land | 18 |
| Jordan neighbor | 15 |
| Baghdad's country | 21 |
| Modern Mesopotamia | 18 |
| Fertile Crescent land | 21 |
| "The Hurt Locker" setting | 35 |
| Neighbor of Jordan | 18 |
| Mesopotamia, today | 18 |
| Kirkuk's country | 20 |
| Basra's land | 16 |
| Arab land | 9 |
| "Green Zone" setting | 30 |
| Where the Tigris flows | 22 |
| Middle East land | 16 |
| A neighbor of Jordan | 20 |
| What some veterans recall | 25 |
| Syria's neighbor | 20 |
| Syria neighbor | 14 |
| Middle Eastern nation | 21 |
| Middle East republic | 20 |
| Basra locale | 12 |
| Baghdad is its capital | 22 |
| Where the Tigris and Euphrates meet | 35 |
| Where the Euphrates flows | 25 |
| Where Mosul is | 14 |
| Sumer, nowadays | 15 |
| Persian Gulf adjoiner | 21 |
| Neighbor of Syria | 17 |
| Neighbor of Iran | 16 |
| Mosul's land | 16 |
| Mideast state | 13 |
| Gulf War foe | 12 |
| Baghdad's nation | 20 |
| Babylon's site, today | 25 |
| 2008 campaign issue | 19 |
| Where dinner costs dinars | 25 |
| Where Basra is | 14 |
| Where Baghdad is | 16 |
| Tikrit's land | 17 |
| Saddam's country | 20 |
| Mosul's country | 19 |
| Modern site of ancient Nineveh | 30 |
| Modern Babylonia | 16 |
| Mideastern nation | 17 |
| Member of OPEC | 14 |
| Kuwait neighbor | 15 |
| Home of some Kurds | 18 |
| Country whose flag's stripes are red, white and black | 57 |
| Country in Asia | 15 |
| Baghdad's home | 18 |
| Al Kut's country | 20 |
| 2000s service site | 18 |
| 1990 Kuwait invader | 19 |
| World's sixth largest oil producer | 38 |
| Where Tigris meets Euphrates | 28 |
| Where the Tigris meets the Euphrates | 36 |
| Where the Tigris and the Euphrates flow | 39 |
| Where the Euphrates meets the Tigris | 36 |
| Where many a veteran has served | 31 |
| Where dinners cost dinars | 25 |
| Where Al Sharqiya is broadcast | 30 |
| Ur locale | 9 |
| Today's Mesopotamia | 23 |
| This land is Ur land | 20 |
| TalabaniÂ’s land | 19 |
| Syrian Desert sharer | 20 |
| Sunni Triangle setting | 22 |
| Sunni Triangle locale | 21 |
| Subject of U.N. sanctions | 25 |
| Setting for "Three Kings," 1999 | 41 |
| Script meaning "God is great" appears on its flag | 59 |
| Saddam's domain, once | 25 |
| Saddam's domain | 19 |
| Saddam used to rule it | 22 |
| Saddam Hussein's land | 25 |
| Ruins of Babylon locale | 23 |
| Place to spend dinars | 21 |
| Persian Gulf War loser | 22 |
| Operation Desert Storm target | 29 |
| Operation Desert Storm setting | 30 |
| One side in a 1980s war | 23 |
| Neighbor of Kuwait | 18 |
| Nation where the Tigris and Euphrates meet | 42 |
| Nation suspected of harboring weapons of mass destruction | 57 |
| Najaf's home | 16 |
| Mosul is there | 14 |
| Modern-day locale of ancient Nineveh | 36 |
| Modern site of Mesopotamia | 26 |
| Modern site of ancient Kish | 27 |
| Modern locale of ancient Ur | 27 |
| Modern home of the ancient Akkadian empire | 42 |
| Modern home of ancient Ur | 25 |
| Mesopotamian nation | 19 |
| Mesopotamian land | 17 |
| Mesopotamia's place | 23 |
| Mesopotamia's land | 22 |
| Mesopotamia, now | 16 |
| Mesopotamia today | 17 |
| Mesopotamia today | 18 |