| HEBRON | Largest city in the Palestinian West Bank (6) |
| GAZA | Largest city in the Palestinian state |
| JERICHO | Palestinian West Bank city |
| ARAFAT | Yasser ---, the first President of the Palestinian National Authority (6) |
| YASSER | And 1 Ac. Former president of the Palestinian National Authority (6,6) |
| INTIFADA | The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaz |
| ANDUIN | In J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the great river, east of the Misty Mountains, on whose west bank is the Elvish land of Lothlorien |
| NABLUS | Palestinian city in the West Bank (6) |
| ALSACE | Cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine (6) |
| BETHEL | Ancient town in the West Bank near Jerusalem (6) |
| YAMUNA | Longest tributary of the Ganges, site of the Taj Mahal on its west bank (6) |
| DEPLOY | Place in Germany for West Bank group youth leader (6) |
| ALNAKBA | The Palestinian name for the violent dispossession of their lands in the creation of Israel (2,5) |
| YASSERARAFAT | First president of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004 (6,6) |
| ABBAS | Mahmoud, President of the Palestinian National Authority elected in 2005 (5) |
| ISRAEL | West Bank neighbor |
| ARABSTATES | Comoros and the Palestinian Territories, for example, are stabs at regeneration (4,6) |
| WEST | Part of the Palestinian territories (4,4) |
| BANK | Part of the Palestinian territories (4,4) |
| DARWISH | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
