Referring Clues

• Mideast hot spot
• Gulf war foe
• Babylon's land
• Kirkuk's country
• Faisal I's land
• Land of the Tigris and Euphrates
• Amara's nation
• Sumer, nowadays
• Subject of U.N. sanctions
• Modern site of ancient Nineveh
• Operation Desert Storm target
• Country under longtime U.N. sanctions
• Home of some Kurds
• Where Mosul is
• Baghdad's land
• 2003 war zone
• Former Baathist state
• Where the Euphrates flows
• Country whose flag says "God is great"
• It includes Mesopotamia
• Script meaning "God is great" appears on its flag
• Mesopotamia, today
• 2008 campaign issue
• Modern home of the ancient Akkadian empire
• With 33-Down, topic in the 2008 presidential campaign
• Modern home of ancient Ur
• Baghdad's country
• Neighbor of Turkey
• Hussein's home
• Neighbor of Saudi Arabia
• Domain of Hussein
• Jordan adjoiner
• Gulf War country
• Desert Storm site
• One of Turkey's neighbors
• Uum Qasr's place
• Country at war in 2003
• Basra's location
• Saudi Arabia neighbor
• Invaded nation of 2003
• Tikrit's land
• Ambassador Negroponte's assignment
• Where Baghdad is the capital
• It's south of Turkey
• Jordan neighbor
• Nation suspected of having weapons of mass destruction
• Its flag says "God is great" in Arabic
• Persian Gulf War loser
• Basra's land
• Neighbor of Jordan
• Mosul's country
• Middle Eastern nation
• 1990 Kuwait invader
• Persian Gulf adjoiner
• Country in March 2003 headlines
• Where the Tigris and Euphrates meet
• Where the Tigris and the Euphrates flow
• 2004 presidential debate topic
• Baath party place
• Babylon's site, today
• Nation suspected of harboring weapons of mass destruction
• Place to spend dinars
• Member of OPEC
• Neighbor of Syria
• Persian Gulf country
• Its flag has Arabic script on it
• Turkey toucher
• Mosul's land
• Asian country slightly larger than California
• Basra's country
• Where the Tigris flows
• Desert Storm target
• Najaf's home
• Sunni Triangle locale
• Mesopotamian land
• Basra locale
• Syria neighbor
• Arab League nation
• Big oil exporter
• 1991 war zone
• Modern Mesopotamia
• Where dinner costs dinars
• Turkey neighbor
• Middle East republic
• Country in the news
• Ruins of Babylon locale
• Independent country as of 1932
• Country in the Fertile Crescent
• Where Al Sharqiya is broadcast
• Baghdad's home
• Where many a veteran has served
• Fertile Crescent land
• Asian republic
• "Three Kings" setting
• Land on the Persian Gulf
• Where dinners cost dinars
• Modern locale of ancient Ur
• "The Hurt Locker" setting
• Green Zone site
• Neighbor of Kuwait
• Kuawait neighbor
• What some veterans recall
• OPEC founding member
• 2000s service site
• Amara’s nation
• Home of the metal band Acrassicauda
• Operation Desert Storm setting
• "Green Zone" setting
• "Jarhead" setting
• "The Hurt Locker" locale
• Baghdad's nation
• Mideast nation
• Land along the Tigris
• Mosul setting
• Mosul is there
• Tigris territory
• OPEC member
• Desert Storm locale
• Mideastern land
• War zone
• 'Axis of evil' member
• Syria's neighbor
• Baghdad site
• Mideast country
• Contemporary Babylon
• "Axis of evil" member
• Major oil exporter
• Saddam Hussein's land
• One side in a 1980s war
• Fallujah's land
• Modern site of Mesopotamia
• Nation where the Tigris and Euphrates meet
• Syrian Desert sharer
• Mideastern nation
• Persian Gulf land
• "The New Way Forward" country
• Saddam used to rule it
• Where the Tigris meets the Euphrates
• Modern Babylonia
• Modern-day locale of ancient Nineveh
• Saddam's domain, once
• Setting for "Three Kings," 1999
• Mesopotamia's place
• Early 2000s war zone
• Desert Storm country
• Country with the ruins of ancient Nineveh
• Neighbor of 10-Down
• OPEC rep
• Modern country within the "Cradle of Civilization"
• Saddam's domain once
• Country created by the Treaty of Sèvres, 1920
• One of the I's of ISIS
• 2003 invasion spot
• Former Baath Party stronghold
• Fertile Crescent nation
• Kirkuk's land
• "American Sniper" setting
• Arab state
• Where Babylon was
• Modern-day Mesopotamia
• Samarra's land
• Iran's enemy, once
• Country invaded in 2003
• "American Sniper" locale
• Mosul's home
• War-torn land
• Iran's neighbor
• Hussein's haven
• Country whose flag's stripes are red, white and black
• Al Kut's country
• Country next to Iran
• Mesopotamia, updated
• Country of western Asia
• Middle East country
• Country of Baghdad and Basra
• Country with WMD once?
• Where no WMD were found
• Middle Eastern country
• Country containing ancient Mesopotamia
• Its capital is Baghdad
• Country artist with an outstanding level of intelligence
• Where militant republicans pose a question?
• See 25 Down
• Talabani’s land
• Country whose flag bears Kufic script
• Country artist without measure of intelligence? On the contrary
• Present-day site of Mesopotamia
• Chair a Question Time covering Middle East trouble spot
• Saddam's land
• Sunni Triangle land
• Site of a 1981 nuclear reactor bombing
• One "I" of ISIS
• Where dinars buy dinners
• Zagros Mountains country
• Iran's neighbour
• Green Zone country
• Syrian Desert nation
• Where the Tigris and Euphrates flow
• Modern locale of ancient Sumer
• One country of the Tigris River
• Land with a bit of the Fertile Crescent
• Kuwait's northern neighbor
• Country that used to have 27-Down
• Country wit visited by artist
• Modern home of the ancient king Gilgamesh
• Desert Storm land
• Modern-day home of where the biblical Abraham was born
• Uruk is there
• Country
• Country forming most of ancient Mesopotamia
• Home to Baghdad
• Country whose official languages are Arabic and Kurdish
• Gulf War locale
• Certain Arab country
• Where the Noah's Ark story is thought to have occurred, today
• Home country of Alia Muhammad Baker, the Librarian of Basra
• Second-greatest oil producer in OPEC
• Modern location of Nineveh
• Home to the Great Ziggurat of Ur
• Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated
• Country where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet
• Modern locale of ancient Babylon
• Land on the Tigris and Euphrates
• Modern country that includes most of ancient Mesopotamia
• Persian Gulf nation