| BACTRIAN | - camel, creature with two humps used as a beast of burden in deserts of central Asia (8) |
| CAMEL | Animal used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia (8.5) |
| LLAMA | Humpless, woolly-haired ruminant quadruped used as a beast of burden in the Andes (5) |
| THESIGER | Wilfred -; author who spent five years exploring the deserts of Arabia on foot and by camel before writing Arabian Sands (8) |
| TAKLAMAKAN | Desert of Central Asia and one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, occupying the central part of the Tarim Basin in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. (5,5) |
| CETUS | Which constellation is represented in Greek mythology as a beast of the sea, often thought of as a w |
| DONKEY | Which ass is used as a beast of burden (6) |
| BACTRIANCAMEL | Two-humped beast of burden in the Central Asian deserts (8,5) |
| BEDOUIN | A member of any of the nomadic Arab tribes inhabiting the deserts of Arabia, Jordan and Syria, as well as parts of the Sahara (7) |
| TAKEITONTHELAMB | Use a young sheep as a beast of burden? |
| INDIANELEPHANT | Large beast of burden in south Asia (6,8) |
| AYEAYE | Madagascan lemur described by naturalist Gerald Durrell as a "beast with a magic finger"; or, without hyphen, a response at sea |
| GOBI | Desert of central Asia, home to camel, kulan and dzeren (4) |
| SIMPSON | Desert of central Australia situated mainly in the southeastern corner of the Northern Territory; it overlaps into Queensland and South Australia. The desert was noted by the explorer Charles Sturt in |
| WYVERN | In heraldry, a dragon-like creature with two legs |
| ASS | Beast of burden in passing |
| ALPACA | Beast of burden in Alabama, Pennsylvania and California (6) |
| GRASS | Grey beast of burden in vegetation (5) |
| OXEN | Beasts of burden in a yoke |
| SIMOOM | A strong suffocating sand-laden wind of the deserts of Arabia and North Africa |
