| MOJAVE | Desert covering parts of Nevada and California (6) |
| TAHOE | Lake ___ (ski resort on the border of Nevada and California) |
| AREA | ___ 51 (mysterious part of Nevada) |
| HOOVERDAM | Barrier in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the states of Nevada and Arizona (6,3) |
| IDA | State that's north of Nevada and Utah: Abbr. |
| GOBI | Meaning waterless place?, a desert covering parts of China and the country dubbed "Minegolia"; one of the most extreme environments on Earth (4) |
| KALAHARI | Desert covering parts of Botswana, South Africa and Namibia (8) |
| THRACE | Historical area of Europe covering parts of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey (6) |
| MEXICO | Country over the border from Texas, Nevada and California (6) |
| PUNISH | Fine, for example, having press against covering part of UK (6) |
| CITRUS | Such a fruit has an unusual crust covering part of it (6) |
| AWNING | Covering part of lawn in garden (6) |
| HEARER | The woman's covering part of body - what is that part? (6) |
| SAHARA | Desert covering one quarter of Africa (6) |
| POTENT | Powerful river covering part of camp |
| EYELID | Picked up this writer covering part of Observer? |
| LAKETAHOE | Body of water bordering Nevada and California [Washoe] |
| OBTURATOR | Either of two muscles covering part of the pelvis involved in movement of hips and thighs |
| EASTANGLIA | Rise of long-tail gnats aerially covering part of Britain (4,6) |
| CARAPACES | Thick protective shells covering part of the bodies of crabs, lobsters and tortoises (9) |
