| ARAMAIC | Ancient language of the Middle East still spoken in parts of the Lebanon and Syria (7) |
| CATALAN | Language spoken in parts of Spain and the Balearics (7) |
| WALLOON | Dialect spoken in parts of France & Belgium |
| NADENE | Group of North American languages spoken in parts of Alaska, Canada and the southern US (2-4) |
| COPTIC | The ancient language of the Copts of Egypt that survives only in the Coptic Church (6) |
| STANHOPE | William Pitt the Younger's niece who gave up aristocratic life and travelled the Middle East dressed as a sheikh on her Arab stallion, settling in a ruined convent in the Lebanon Mountains (8) |
| FLATTYRE | A spare is needed for the apartment in front of the Lebanon port (4,4) |
| PROVENCAL | Language spoken in parts of the south of France |
| PHOENICIA | Ancient civilisation in parts of Lebanon and Syria (9) |
| ARABIC | Official language of Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, the Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen |
| DRUZE | Member of a religious sect living largely in Lebanon and Syria, having certain characteristics in common with Muslims (5) |
| GAELIC | Celtic language spoken in parts of Scotland and Ireland (6) |
| KASHMIRI | Language spoken in parts of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan |
| MEOWED | What Persian maybe did in Middle East still to be paid (6) |
| TAMIL | Language spoken in parts of Sri Lanka (5) |
| ALEUT | Language spoken in parts of Alaska (5) |
| SLICEDBREAD | Innovation of the 1920s that's still spoken of with wonder today |
| TAINT | Shame bit of Turkish isn't spoken in part of London (5) |
| ARAK | The traditional alcoholic beverage of Lebanon and Syria |
| BEIRUT | Capital of the Lebanon (6) |
