| DINAR | Monetary unit in Iraq and Kuwait |
| LOCKER | 2008 movie by Kathryn Bigelow about a US bomb disposal unit in Iraq (3,4,6) |
| THEHURT | 2008 movie by Kathryn Bigelow about a US bomb disposal unit in Iraq (3,4,6) |
| THREEKINGS | 1999 black comedy set in Iraq and starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube; also the name of an Auckland suburb (5,5) |
| BAGHDAD | ------- Central, C4 crime thriller set in Iraq and starring Waleed Zuaiter and July Namir (7) |
| LOUISQUATORZE | Antique style unknown in Iraq - and Toulouse, oddly |
| KURDS | Islamic people in Iraq and Turkey |
| HUMVEE | Military vehicle in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| EMIRS | Leaders in Qatar and Kuwait |
| MIDEAST | Area of the world that includes Jordan and Kuwait |
| ARABS | Many residents of Qatar and Kuwait |
| EAST | Middle ___ transcontinental region with Lebanon and Kuwait |
| OPEC | Grp. with Venezuela and Kuwait |
| ARABIA | Name given to a peninsula that includes Yemen, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait (6) |
| EURO | Monetary unit in Spain and France |
| PAISA | Monetary unit in India, Pakistan, and Nepal |
| KURD | Member of an ethnic and linguistic group living primarily in contiguous areas of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey |
| ATWAR | Like Iraq and Iran, in the 1980s |
| KURDISH | Iranian language spoken also in Turkey, Iraq and Syria (7) |
| BAHRAIN | Bank of ___ & Kuwait: Persian Gulf bank with an Indian presence (7) |
