| HILLAH | City in central Iraq on the Euphrates River that is the capital of Babylon Province |
| RANCH | In central Iraq once, Fahad established a large farm (5) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| MACAPA | City in N Brazil on the Amazon River that is the capital of Amapa state (6) |
| MOSUL | City of northern Iraq on the river Tigris which includes the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh (5) |
| UR | An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River. |
| VOLGA | Russian river that is the longest in Europe, and the main freshwater source of the Caspian Sea (5) |
| BAGHDAD | Capital of Iraq, on the River Tigris, with a population of more than 7 million (7) |
| WABASH | A 503-mile-long river that is the largest northern tributary of the Ohio River (6) |
| LAKEASSAD | Reservoir on the Euphrates in Syria created by the construction of the Tabqa Dam |
| SHATTALARAB | River in Iraq formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (5-2-4) |
| BASRA | A port in Iraq, on the Shatt al-arab River (5) |
| YANGTZE | River that is the longest in both China and Asia (7) |
| RATE | Assess what's in the Euphrates River (4) |
| TIGRIS | Tributary of the Euphrates River (6) |
| USURER | Loan shark certain to be found in ancient city on the Euphrates (6) |
| MESOPOTAMIA | Region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (11) |
