| TIGRIS | Tributary of the Euphrates River (6) |
| TAURUS | Mountain range in southern Turkey that runs parallel to the Mediterranean coast. It extends along a curve from Lake Egridir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River in the east. (6) |
| UR | An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River. |
| HILLAH | City in central Iraq on the Euphrates River that is the capital of Babylon Province |
| FALLUJAH | Iraqi city on the Euphrates River about 69 km west of Baghdad, in the province of Al Anbar (8) |
| BABYLON | The ruins of which ancient city lie on the Euphrates River south of Baghdad? (7) |
| WOOLLEY | Ur, an ancient city-state situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, but it remained unidentified until the mid-19th century. In 1922, this archaeologis |
| RATE | Assess what's in the Euphrates River (4) |
| SYRIA | Country containing about 440 miles of the course of the Euphrates and about 27 miles of the Tigris |
| ARUS | A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea. |
| MESOPOTAMIA | Ancient region of Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (11) |
| OTTER | Water creature common to the marshes of the Euphrates and Tigris |
| SYR | Setting for 400+ miles of the Euphrates: Abbr. |
| USURER | Loan shark certain to be found in ancient city on the Euphrates (6) |
| SHATTALARAB | River in Iraq formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (5-2-4) |
| IRAQ | The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through this Mideast country |
| LAKEASSAD | Reservoir on the Euphrates in Syria created by the construction of the Tabqa Dam |
| EDEN | Origin of the Tigris and the Euphrates, in Genesis |
| FERTILECRESCENT | Broad semicircle from the Nile to the Euphrates |
| SUMER | Mesopotamian region along the Tigris and the Euphrates |
