BASRA
Set to 14 different clues across 18 published puzzles, most often “Iraqi port” — The New York Times, Wednesday, 28 May 2008.
5 letters
Every clue on record, most used first
- Iraqi port3 times
The New York Times — Wednesday, 28 May 2008
- Port of Iraq2 times
The New York Times — Sunday, 4 May 2008
- Iraqi city2 times
The New York Times — Thursday, 21 November 1996
- Mideast city whose name, coincidentally, is an anagram of ARABSonce
The New York Times — Wednesday, 29 September 2010
- Mideast city that is the capital of the world in H. G. Wells's "The Shape of Things to Come"once
The New York Times — Thursday, 15 July 2010
- Iraqi seaportonce
The New York Times — Tuesday, 10 February 2009
- City bombed in the gulf waronce
The New York Times — Friday, 7 March 2008
- Shatt al Arab portonce
The New York Times — Saturday, 7 July 2007
- City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABSonce
The New York Times — Tuesday, 13 June 2006
- Port on the Shatt-al-Arabonce
The New York Times — Thursday, 21 December 2000
- Mideast portonce
The New York Times — Thursday, 14 September 2000
- Persian Gulf portonce
The New York Times — Tuesday, 11 January 2000