Historical clue formulations

• Many a wearer of a long robe called a thawb — 2025-12-05
• ___ Arabia — 2025-05-05
• Like Mecca and Medina — 2024-06-30
• Like 80% of the Arabian Peninsula — 2023-11-09
• Mecca resident — 2022-12-18
• Person who lives next to 28-Across — 2022-11-08
• Mecca resident — 2021-03-16
• ___ Aramco, world's most profitable company — 2021-03-12
• Like some riyals — 2019-08-25
• Mecca resident — 2017-03-28
• One with a short hajj — 2014-10-24
• ___ Arabia — 2014-10-01
• Subject of King Abdullah — 2014-08-27
• Arab kingdom native — 2014-07-30
• Like a national flag with a sword on it — 2012-09-21
• Riyadh native — 2012-04-16
• Meccan, e.g. — 2012-01-27
• Riyadh resident — 2011-06-06
• Meccan, e.g. — 2011-03-31
• Like the Aramco oil company — 2011-03-02
• ___ Arabia — 2011-01-03
• Resident of Medina — 2007-08-22
• Yemeni neighbor — 2007-07-08
• Riyadh resident — 2006-06-27
• Any of the Fahd ruling family — 2004-07-28
• Nejd native — 2003-10-15
• Riyadh resident — 2002-07-02
• Mecca resident — 2002-04-15
• King Fahd, for one — 2001-06-26
• Fahd, for one — 1999-06-13
• Gulf war ally — 1999-03-18
• Fahd or Faisal — 1997-07-23
• Gulf War combatant — 1994-02-17