Middle-schooler, perhaps
Middle, geometrically (Abbr.)
Middle, in Manitoba
Middle, in Middlesex
Middle, North, South, or Central follower
Middle, to Brits
Middle: Abbr.
Middle: pref.
Middle: Prefix
Middle's middle
Middlebreaker
middlebrow
middlebrow culture
Middlecoff Golfer
middled eastern porter
middleman
Middleman (and a hint to this puzzle's theme)
middleman in a game of borrowed treasure
Middleman's transaction
Middlemarch
Middlemarch author
Middlemarch author George
middlemarch e g
Middlemarch novelist
Middlemarch novelist George
Middlemarch novelist, 1871
Middlemarch writer
Middlemen
middlemost
Middles
Middles that are often too big
Middles, in Middlesbrough
Middles: Abbr.
Middlesex mom
MIDDLESEX river
Middlesex trifles, e.g.
Middlesex University is here
Middleton and Jackson
Middleton and Moss
Middleton and Spade
Middleton married to Prince William
Middleton of "Any Day Now"
Middleton of royalty
Middleton who sang with Louis Armstrong
Middlin'
Middling
Middling beginning?
Middling bond rating
Middling card
Middling domino
Middling grade
Middling grades
middling hyph
Middling mark
Middling mark at school
Middling marks
Middling mil. rank
Middling municipal bond rating
Middling noble rank
Middling pace
Middling pair
Middling poker pair
Middling shade
Middling, temperaturewise
middy
Middy counterpart
Middy's assent
Middy's sch.
Mideast "son of"
Mideast acronym
Mideast airline
Mideast airline since 1948
Mideast alliance inits., 1958-61
Mideast area
Mideast bay
Mideast belief
Mideast big shot (var.)
Mideast bigshot
Mideast bigwig
Mideast bigwig: Var.
Mideast bigwigs
Mideast bigwigs of old
Mideast body of water
Mideast bread
Mideast breads
Mideast buck
Mideast call to prayer
Mideast canal
Mideast Capital
Mideast capital apt for this puzzle
Mideast capital at 7,380 feet
Mideast capital once called Philadelphia
Mideast capital once known as Philadelphia
Mideast capital supposedly founded by a son of Noah
Mideast carrier
Mideast carrier since 1948
Mideast chief
Mideast chief: Var.
Mideast chiefs
Mideast chieftain
Mideast chieftains
Mideast chieftains: Var.
Mideast city (var.)
Mideast city on its own gulf
Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come"
Mideast city that was once a British protectorate
Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABS
Mideast city with a stock exchange
Mideast coin
Mideast Cold War org.
Mideast council members
Mideast Country
Mideast country east of 50-Across
Mideast country on the Red Sea
Mideast country west of 32-Down
Mideast cry of despair?
Mideast cuisine staple
Mideast currency
Mideast desert
Mideast Desert African
Mideast desert region
Mideast digestive aid
Mideast dignitaries
Mideast dignitary
Mideast diplomat Eban
Mideast dish
Mideast dough
Mideast dry measure
Mideast emirate
Mideast entity
Mideast equivalent of 7 Down
Mideast expert
Mideast expert, maybe
Mideast export
Mideast Export Australian
Mideast faith
Mideast fed.
Mideast federation
Mideast federation estab. in 1994
Mideast federation, for short
Mideast federation: Abbr.
Mideast financial center
Mideast flag carrier
Mideast flash point
Mideast fleet
Mideast flier
Mideast fruit source
Mideast gp.
Mideast gp. since 1964
Mideast group with observer status at the U.N.
Mideast grp.
Mideast grp. once headed by Yasir Arafat
Mideast gulf
Mideast gulf city
Mideast gulf or port
Mideast gulf port
Mideast gulf state
Mideast guns
Mideast harbor city
Mideast holy city
Mideast honcho
Mideast hot spot
Mideast hub
Mideast ice-cream parlor order?
Mideast initials
Mideast initials, once
Mideast inits.
Mideast inlet
Mideast inn
Mideast intelligence organization
Mideast king deposed in 1964
Mideast land
Mideast land (abbr.)
Mideast land since 1948: Abbr.
Mideast land with a dagger on its flag
Mideast land, for short
Mideast land: Abbr.
Mideast language
Mideast language group
Mideast leader
Mideast leader beginning 1981
Mideast leader: Var.
Mideast leader?
Mideast leaders
Mideast leaders: Var.
Mideast letters
Mideast loc.
Mideast locale of Sira Fortress
Mideast locale of the 2022 World Cup
Mideast map abbr.
Mideast market
Mideast market: var.
Mideast metropolis
Mideast millionaires
Mideast missile
Mideast Missile American
Mideast missiles
Mideast mogul
Mideast moguls
Mideast monarch
Mideast monarchs
Mideast monarchy
Mideast money
Mideast monogram
Mideast moolah
Mideast mountain
Mideast muck-a-muck
Mideast muck-a-muck (var.)
Mideast Muck-a-muck High
Mideast mucky-muck
Mideast nation
Mideast nation in a 2015 nuclear deal
Mideast nation: Abbr.
Mideast national
Mideast nationalist movement
mideast nations
Mideast native
Mideast natives
Mideast negotiator
Mideast neighbor of 3-Down
Mideast neighbor of 49-Down
Mideast noble
Mideast nosh
Mideast oil port
Mideast oil producer*
Mideast or Midwest
Mideast org.
Mideast org. since 1964
Mideast org., once
Mideast parley attenders
Mideast peace talk?
Mideast peace talks site
Mideast peacemaker
Mideast peninsula
Mideast Peninsula Adriatic
Mideast plateau dweller
Mideast pocket bread
Mideast political gp.
Mideast political initials
Mideast political org.
Mideast pooh-bah
Mideast pops?
Mideast port
Mideast port city ...
Mideast port on its own gulf
Mideast port on the Mediterranean
Mideast port that was home to Sinbad the sailor
Mideast potentate
Mideast potentate: Var.
Mideast president who succeeded his father