- DESERT
- Abandon
- Leave in the lurch
- Painted, for one
- Defect
- Dry zone
- The English Patient setting
- Food ___ (place where affordable food is hard to come by)
- Nevada, mainly
- Run out on
- Vast hot wasteland
- Leave high and dry
- Food ___
- New York is the great stone ___: Israel Zangwill
- Red-spotted toad's habitat
- Sat for a while
- Setting at the start of the Eagles' "Hotel California"
- Meerkat's milieu
- Mirage site
- Sandy land
- Word before Storm or Shield
- Kalahari, for one
- Storm in Kuwait?
- Rommel's milieu
- Sandy tract
- Joshua tree habitat
- Forsake
- Leave without leave
- The Road Runner's home
- Gila monster's home
- Hot spot
- Most of the United Arab Emirates
- Hot, dry place
- Kalahari or Gobi
- Leave in a lurch
- Dune locale
- Wasteland
- Gobi, for one
- Jump ship
- Gobi, e.g.
- Shirk one's duty, in a big way
- Common chuckwalla habitat
- Most of 49-Down
- The Kalahari, for one
- Sahara, for one
- Death Valley, for example
- With 44-Down, setting for 20-, 35- and 54-Across
- Much of Nevada
- Mojave or Gobi
- Antarctica, for example
- About 25% of California
- Climate for much of Nevada
- Mojave, for one
- Climate for Utah's "Mighty Five" national parks
- Gobi or Mojave
- Strand
- Barren area
- Sandy expanse
- Leave flat
- The Sheik setting
- Gobi or Sahara
- Much of Mongolia
- Leave stranded
- 22 Across, for one
- Leave
- Topographical adjective
- Arid expanse
- Low-rain region
- Most of Mauritania
- Saguaro locale
- Sahara, for instance
- Oasis' environment
- The Sahara, for one
- Region like the Sahara
- The Antarctic, e.g.
- The Sahara, for example
- Gila monster's habitat
- Atacama, for one
- The Negeb.
- What Negeb is.
- Nearly half of earth's surface.
- Israeli reclamation project.
- The Mojave, for instance.
- Arizona scene.
- Black Rock in Nevada.
- Mojave.
- One-fifth of the world's land.
- Imperial Valley.
- The Mojave.
- White Sands, for instance.
- Recent Disney project.
- Setting for 51 Down.
- Region left unoccupied.
- The Mojave, for example.
- The Negeb or the Nafud.
- Palm Springs environs.
- Wilderness.
- Black Rock, for one.
- Painted ___ in Arizona.
- Palm Springs environment.
- The Negev.
- Geographical feature.
- Mohave region.
- ___ fox.
- Mohave.
- See 30 Across.
- Periphery of Palm Springs.
- Painted ___.
- Large part of Iran.
- One kind of island.
- The Negev, for one.
- Arizona's is painted
- Gobi or Painted
- ___ rat (prospector)
- The ___ Song: Romberg
- Become a permanent AWOL
- Romberg's "___ Song"
- Gobi or Negev
- Negev or Nefud
- Painted ___, Ariz.
- Ocotillo's milieu
- Valentino's milieu
- Just reward
- Negev, e.g.
- Play turncoat
- Apostatize
- Ariz.'s Painted ___
- Home of a sidewinder
- Taklamakan, e.g.
- Kalahari or Thar
- Act the rat
- Go AWOL
- Land of sand
- Nefud, e.g.
- Camel country
- Ditch
- Rub' al Khali, e.g.
- Sahara, e.g.
- Barren
- Very dry region, as the Sahara
- Leave alone
- Xerophyte's home
- Roughly a third of the earth's land surface
- Prickly pear's place
- Jerboa's home
- Leave one's company?
- Much of Arabia
- Antarctica, for one
- Much of Chile
- Bedouin's home
- Roughly one-third of the earth's surface
- Arid area
- Mojave, e.g.
- Somewhere on a ___ highway, she rides a Harley Davidson
- Dennis DeYoung "___ Moon"
- ___ Shield
- Kalahari, e.g.
- Syrian or Nubian
- Dry region
- Nubian or Sonoran
- Leave one's post
- Painted or Mojave
- Mojave or Sonoran
- Gobi or Mohave
- Rub' al Khali, for one
- Rainless expanse
- Oasis locale
- Go AWOL permanently
- Gobi or Taklamakan
- The Kalahari, for example
- Gobi or Atacama
- Gobi or Atacama, for example
- Mojave or Kalahari
- Dry, sandy biome
- Karakum or Sahara
- Maranjab or Gobi
- Turn your back on
- Atacama, e.g.
- Bail out on
- What Antarctica is, technically
- Inhospitable place
- Go out of service?
- Grocery store path
- Environment of Arrakis, in "Dune"
- Throw over
- Parched place
- Australia's Gibson, e.g.
- Go overboard, perhaps
- Be a front runner?
