Middle Eastern ruler
The crossword clue "Middle Eastern ruler" is answered by EMIR, a 4-letter entry. Used 27 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EMIR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EMIR answer page.
Used 27 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- EMEER (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for EMIR
Every other clue in this collection answered by EMIR, most used first.
- Mideast ruler - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
- Eastern potentate - used 75 times, most recently in 2026
- Kuwaiti ruler - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Kuwaiti leader - used 67 times, most recently in 2025
- Qatari leader - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
- Dubai dignitary - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
- Mideast bigwig - used 49 times, most recently in 2022
- Arab ruler - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Mideast leader - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Arabian prince - used 40 times, most recently in 2022
- Arabic for "commander" - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Eastern bigwig - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
- Kuwaiti bigwig - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Dubai leader - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Dubai bigwig - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
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- Romanov ruler - TSAR, used 96 times
- Russian ruler - TSAR, used 89 times
- Old Russian ruler - TSAR, used 84 times
- Eastern European - SLAV, used 82 times
- Former Russian ruler - TSAR, used 78 times
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