Possible Questions:
- Hot spot
- Abandon
- Leave
- Maroon
- Strand
- Barren
- Ditch
- Leave high and dry
- Leave alone
- Leave in the lurch
- Wasteland
- Much of Mongolia
- Forsake
- Leave stranded
- Sahara, for one
- Run out on
- Dry land
- Gobi or Mojave
- Go AWOL
- "The English Patient" setting
- Most of Mauritania
- Gila monster's home
- Arid expanse
- Sahara, e.g.
- Painted, for one
- Barren area
- Act the rat
- ___ Tages (someday, in German)
- Xerophyte's home
- Topographical adjective
- Throw over
- Syrian or Nubian
- Storm in Kuwait?
- Saguaro locale
- Rub' al Khali, for one
- Rommel's milieu
- Rainless expanse
- Oasis setting
- Low-rain region
- Leave without leave
- Joshua tree habitat
- Inhospitable place
- Gobi or Sahara
- Apostatize
- "Somewhere on a ___ highway, she rides a Harley Davidson"
- What Antarctica is, technically
- Valentino's milieu
- Tucson's environs
- The Road Runner's home
- The Kalahari, for one
- Taklamakan, e.g.
- Shirk one's duty, in a big way
- Rub' al Khali, e.g.
- Roughly a third of the earth's land surface
- Romberg's "___ Song"
- Prickly pear's place
- Play turncoat
- Place for mirages
- Parched place
- Painted ___, Ariz.
- Ocotillo's milieu
- Oasis environment
- Nubian or Sonoran
- Negev, e.g.
- Negev or Nefud
- Nefud, e.g.
- Much of Arabia
- Most of the United Arab Emirates
- Mojave or Gobi
- Leave one's post
- Leave one's company?
- Las Vegas region
- Land of sand
- Kalahari or Thar
- Just reward
- Jump ship
- Jerboa's home
- Home of a sidewinder
- Gobi, e.g.
- Gobi or Painted
- Gobi or Negev
- Gila monster's habitat
- Food ___ (place where affordable food is hard to come by)
- Dry region
- Dry expanse
- Dennis DeYoung "___ Moon"
- Death Valley, for example
- Common chuckwalla habitat
- Camel country
- Become a permanent AWOL
- Arizona's is painted
- Ariz.'s Painted ___
- "The ___ Song": Romberg
- ___ rat (prospector)