| SCUD | Soviet-made surfaceto-surface missile used by Iraq in the 1990-91 Gulf War (4) |
| IRAN | Country that fought Iraq in the 1980s |
| DIPLOMAT | "The best bunker buster" according to Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s |
| BATTLE | With 35-Down, Korea in the 1950s or Iraq in the 2000s |
| BOLA | Missile used by cricketer, by the sound of it (4) |
| BOLD | Missile used by a crossbow, shorter and heavier than an arrow (4) |
| ISIS | Jihadist organisation that proclaimed a short-lived caliphate in Syria and Iraq in 2014 (4) |
| LOSS | Ryan Phillippe comes home, only to have the Army send him back to Iraq in 08's Stop-____. |
| KUWAIT | Middle Eastern country invaded by Iraq in 1990, leading to the Gulf War (6) |
| AQUA | Water imported by Iraq, UAE (4) |
| DART | Small pointed missile used as a weapon or in a game |
| ICBM | Shorthand for a type of long-range missile, used for delivery of nuclear weapons (4) |
| ASIA | Land shared by Iraq and Iran |
| DOODLEBUG | Nickname for the jet- propelled V-1 missile used by German forces in the Second World War, also known as the flying bomb (9) |
| EXOCET | A French-built anti-ship missile used by the Argentine Navy in the Falklands War (6) |
| KUWAITI | One from a country attacked by Iraq in 1990 (7) |
| MOSUL | City recaptured from ISIL by Iraq in 2017 |
| SIDEWINDER | Missile used by US team to triumph over Communist uprising (10) |
| SADDAMHUSSEIN | Iraqi leader captured by US forces in 2003 and executed in Iraq in 2006 (6,7) |
| HARPOON | Barbed missile used by whale hunters (7) |
