| Â Â Weak brew | 19 |
| Within a holler | 15 |
| Vicinal | 7 |
| Far from far | 12 |
| It's where someone in the sticks might go to buy groceries | 62 |
| Brookline, vis-Ã -vis Boston | 30 |
| Trouble spot | 12 |
| Turkey may be found here | 24 |
| Lebanon's locale | 20 |
| Iraq is in it | 13 |
| Fertile Crescent area | 21 |
| Turkey locale | 13 |
| Turkey and environs | 19 |
| Troubled world area | 19 |
| The Euphrates runs through it | 29 |
| Syria, Israel, etc. | 19 |
| Southwest Asia | 14 |
| Setting of the Levant | 21 |
| Region including Turkey | 23 |
| Region including the Arabian Peninsula | 38 |
| Region including Lebanon | 24 |
| Region including Iraq and Iran | 30 |
| Phoenicia locale | 16 |
| Originally, the greatest extent of the Ottoman Empire | 53 |
| Old-World area | 14 |
| Lebanon's region | 20 |
| Lands of SW Asia, etc. | 22 |
| Lands occupied by the Ottoman Empire | 36 |
| Global area in the news | 23 |
| Crusades locale | 15 |
| Biblical lands | 14 |
| Area including Turkey and Israel | 32 |
| Area including Israel and Jordan | 32 |
| Approached | 10 |
| Closed in on | 12 |
| Got close | 9 |
| Came closer | 11 |
| Got close to | 12 |
| Approximated | 12 |
| Got closer | 10 |
| Came close to | 13 |
| Moved closer to | 15 |
| Got warm, in a sense | 20 |
| Got in the vicinity | 19 |
| Got closer to | 13 |
| Drew nigh | 9 |
| Came close | 10 |
| Was told one was hot? | 21 |
| Verged toward | 13 |
| Inched up on | 12 |
| Got warm | 8 |
| Entered shouting distance | 25 |
| Edged toward | 12 |
| Drew closer to | 14 |
| Drew close to | 13 |
| Crept up on | 11 |
| Closed the gap on | 17 |
| Came hard by | 12 |
| Came closer to | 14 |
| Became visible, maybe | 21 |
| Anagram of "endear" | 29 |
| Less remote | 11 |
| More on target | 14 |
| "___, My God, to Thee" | 32 |
| Warmer, in a way | 16 |
| More imminent | 13 |
| Comparatively close | 19 |
| More handy | 10 |
| Warmer, so to speak | 19 |
| Start of an Adams hymn | 22 |
| Start of a well-known hymn | 26 |
| Start of a Titanic hymn | 23 |
| Not so far | 10 |
| More within reach | 17 |
| Closing in on | 13 |
| Closer at hand | 14 |
| "___ My God to Thee" | 30 |
| Warmer, in some games | 21 |
| Start of Sarah Adams's well-known hymn | 42 |
| Start of a hymn | 15 |
| Occurring relatively soon | 25 |
| Not as removed | 14 |
| More to the point? | 18 |
| More thrifty | 12 |
| More proximate | 14 |
| More likely to encounter | 24 |
| More likely to bump into | 24 |
| More contiguous | 15 |
| More close | 10 |
| More approximate | 16 |
| First word of a Sarah Adams hymn | 32 |
| First word of a popular hymn | 28 |
| Easier to see, perhaps | 22 |
| Easier to see | 13 |
| Closer (to) | 11 |
| "___, My God, to Thee" (supposed last song played on the sinking Titanic) | 83 |
| "___ in bloody thoughts, but not in blood": Richard III | 65 |
| Most accessible | 15 |
| Closest | 7 |
| Most intimate | 13 |