| THEGREAT | King of Macedon who conquered Greece, Egypt and the Persian Empire (9,3,5) |
| ALEXANDER | King of Macedon who conquered Greece, Egypt and the Persian Empire (9,3,5) |
| CYRUS | --- the Great was the king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire who died in 529 BC (5) |
| PERSEPOLIS | Which city was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty and the si |
| CYRUSTHEGREAT | King of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire who died in 529 BC (5,3,5) |
| MUSANDAM | Omani exclave sitting on the northeastern extension of the Arabian Peninsula, separating the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to form the Strait of Hormuz. (8) |
| IRAN | The Azadi Tower, a monument built to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, is in this country (4) |
| ALEXANDERS | Name, from "black herb/vegetable", through association in folk etymology with the "Great" king of Macedon, for black lovage or Macedonian parsley (10) |
| SHAH | Title of former leaders of the Persian Empire (4) |
| PHILIP | ___ of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great (6) |
| TOMBRAIDER | 1996 video game set in Peru, Greece, Egypt, and Atlantis |
| CAIRO | The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa (5) |
| GAUGAMELA | The battle of ___ (or Arbela) in October 331 BC spelled the end of the first Persian empire (9) |
| SASSANID | Ancient Persian empire of the 3rd to 7th century A.D. also called the Empire of Iranians (8) |
| MONET | French painter who imported his inspirational water lilies from Egypt and the Americas |
| DAM | Structure such as the Aswan in Egypt and the Three Gorges in China |
| ARABIANDESERT | It's between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf |
| ARABIA | A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. |
| ARABIAN | World's largest peninsula, between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (7) |
| ROXANA | Bactrian princess who married the Macedon king Alexander the Great in 327 BC, and to whom she bore Alexander IV (6) |
