| SONORAN | Desert of the Southwest |
| SAHARA | Desert of the Maghreb |
| MOJAVE | Desert of the southwestern U.S. |
| GILAMONSTER | A large, venomous, brightlycoloured lizard inhabiting deserts of the South Western US and Mexico (4,7) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| KAVIR | Great salt desert of north-central Iran; it is located in a basin southeast of the Elburz Mountains. (5) |
| SERE | Like the desert of Sinai |
| KALAHARI | Desert of Botswana and South Africa inhabited by the Khoikhoi and San peoples |
| SALTONSEA | A saline lake, in the Colorado Desert of California, flooded unexpectedly in 1905-06 (6,3) |
| VOX | Sarah Mclachlan song that starts "In the desert of my dreams I saw you there..." |
| MOHAVE | Driest desert of North America, in which the continent's lowest point, Death Valley, is located (6) |
| SIMOOM | Strong suffocating sand-laden wind of the deserts of Arabia and North Africa (6) |
| BACTRIAN | Two-humped camel of the deserts of central Asia (8) |
| CAMEL | Animal used as a beast of burden in the cold deserts of central Asia (8.5) |
| GOBI | Big desert of Asia |
| NAMIB | Coastal desert of Africa |
