| NAMIB | Coastal desert of SW Africa (5) |
| OKAVANGO | River of SW Africa forming part of the border between Angola and Namibia (8) |
| ANGOLA | Republic of SW Africa |
| NAMIBIA | Country of southwest Africa |
| KAVIR | Great salt desert of north-central Iran; it is located in a basin southeast of the Elburz Mountains. (5) |
| SINAI | Desert of north-east Egypt (5) |
| NEGEV | Desert of southern Israel (5) |
| CAMEL | Animal used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia (8.5) |
| HOTTENTOTS | Members of a nomadic people, native to southwest Africa (10) |
| 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) |
| SPRINGBOK | Antelope found mainly in south and southwest Africa (9) |
| 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 |
| SAHARA | Vast desert of North Africa, home to a subspecies of cheetah (6) |
| 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) |
| KALAHARI | Desert of south-western Africa (8) |
| ATACAMA | Large desert of South America lying mostly on the Pacific coast of northern Chile (7) |
| SYRIAN | Desert of southwestern Asia, extending northward from the Arabian Peninsula over much of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq. |
| RENO | Nevada setting of Jana Rule's 1964 novel "Desert of the Heart" |
| SIMOOM | Strong suffocating sand-laden wind of the deserts of Arabia and North Africa (6) |
| BACTRIAN | Animal used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia (8.5) |
