| IRAQIS | Murdoch, for example takes a question for Middle Easterners |
| ARABCDROM | Storage medium for Middle Easterners? |
| IRISH | Murdoch, for one, hailed primarily from Dublin? |
| IRANI | Independent Republican with a leading question for Middle East citizen (5) |
| ARABLE | A Saudi for example takes the French to be cultivated (6) |
| LOANWORD | Doppelganger, for example, takes word of a Frenchman and gives it to Englishman as it is (8) |
| EDGEWAYS | Journalist, for example, takes up techniques of how to get a word in? (8) |
| FILMSTAR | Rock Hudson, for example, takes pictures of sailor (4,4) |
| CRICKETER | Bat, for example, takes insect with hesitation |
| TOOTH | Canine, for example, takes cocaine and heroin |
| LEAVES | Rocket, for example, takes off |
| SUBSCRIBER | For example, takes the Telegraph editors onto boat in Clare river (10) |
| STAY | Guy, for example, takes time (4) |
| SEAWAY | Main route, for example, takes in east and west primarily (6) |
| NEOCON | Right wing element for example takes on company |
| SKATER | Dean, for example takes out Rector (6) |
| ELEGANT | The Spanish, for example, take on a worker who is genteel (7) |
| BELLYDANCERS | They entertain Middle Easterners with something for dinner, and yes, they have a ball! (5,7) |
| OTTOMANS | Middle Easterners named for their first sultan |
| ARABS | A lot of Middle Easterners |
