| LAGHOUAT | Algerian city that is an oasis on the north edge of the Sahara Desert |
| GOTHA | Town in Central Germany on the north edge of the Thuringian forest (5) |
| LEFTWELLALONE | Made tracks with Oasis on first album and poor Noel didn't get involved? (4,4,5) |
| KYOTO | Japanese city that is an anagram of another Japanese city |
| LARAMIE | Wyoming city that is an anagram of REAL AIM (7) |
| NOUAKCHOTT | African capital city located on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara Desert (10) |
| TUAREG | Nomadic people of the Sahara desert, called the 'blue people' for the indigo-dyed clothes they wear |
| TUNISIA | Around forty percent of this country is composed of the Sahara Desert (7) |
| NUBIAN | ____ Desert, arid and rocky region in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert (6) |
| MARABOU | Large stork that inhabits land south of the Sahara desert |
| MIRAGE | Optical illusion from image shifting around centre of the Sahara desert |
| SAHEL | Region south of the Sahara desert |
| MAURITANIA | Once a French colony, much of this country, which is bordered by Western Sahara, Mali, Algeria, and Senegal, encompasses the Sahara desert. |
| EMIKOUSSI | Extinct volcano in the Sahara Desert forming the highest point in the Tibesti Mountains, photographe |
| AHAGGAR | Name for a large plateau in the north centre of the Sahara, on the Tropic of Cancer, North Africa. Its height is above 3,000 feet (900 metres), culminating in Mount Tahat in southeastern Algeria. (7) |
| TIMBUKTU | City on the Sahara Desert |
| CARAVAN | Group of traders and their camels traversing the Sahara Desert |
| MALI | African country whose northern section is in the Sahara desert |
| ORAN | Algerian city which was the setting of The Plague, by Albert Camus |
| AFRICA | Where the Sahara desert is |
