Middle East

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• A citadel that was rocked in a famous song (6)
• A path to the watering hole that guides the law (6)
• The most expensive thread in the spice drawer (7)
• A game played in a court or a vegetable in a stew (6)
• The center of a compass for a billion people (5)
• The original wedge issue in Sumerian writing (9)
• The code of honor in the rugged mountains of the east (7)
• A secret faith found in the mountains of the Levant (5)
• Deep fried spheres that could be mistake for meat (7)
• The jurisdiction of a prince in the sand (7)
• A sword that became a kitchen utensil (5)

Down

• A wooden bird of the Indian Ocean with lateen wings (4)
• The capital that sits at the gateway to the Silk Road (5)
• The Great who freed the captives of Babylon (5)
• A lighthouse that shines with sound instead of light (7)
• Coastal swahili descendant of the Persian Gulf (7)
• Currency that flows from a barrel (11)
• Father of the Gazelle turned into a skyscraper forest (8)
• A city of gold and three faiths, fought for by all (9)
• The burden bearer who advises the Sultan (6)
• Where the sun sets in the west of the east (7)
• A labyrinthine shop where you might get lost in tea (4)

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