| Desert cover-ups | 16 |
| Desert coven? | 13 |
| Desert construction | 19 |
| Desert coat | 11 |
| Desert clay | 11 |
| Desert carrier | 14 |
| Desert caravan stops | 20 |
| Desert caravan beasts | 21 |
| Desert caravan | 14 |
| Desert burrowers | 16 |
| Desert buildings, perhaps | 25 |
| Desert building material | 24 |
| Desert brick | 12 |
| Desert bounded by the Altai Mountains | 37 |
| Desert bottomland | 17 |
| Desert bordering the Sinai Peninsula | 36 |
| Desert bordering the Sinai | 26 |
| Desert bordering the Red Sea | 28 |
| Desert bordering the Mojave | 27 |
| Desert bordered by steppe land | 30 |
| Desert blooms | 13 |
| Desert bloomers | 15 |
| Desert bloomer | 14 |
| Desert bigwigs | 14 |
| Desert beauties | 15 |
| Desert beast with three lids on each eye | 40 |
| Desert beast | 12 |
| Desert basin floor | 18 |
| Desert basin | 12 |
| Desert attribute | 16 |
| Desert art colony | 17 |
| Desert areas with dunes | 23 |
| Desert areas | 12 |
| Desert area | 11 |
| Desert Arab | 11 |
| Desert antelope | 15 |
| Desert anomaly | 14 |
| Desert and rain forest | 22 |
| Desert along the Sinai Peninsula | 32 |
| Desert along the Silk Road | 26 |
| Desert air feature | 18 |
| Desert after an Italian meal | 28 |
| Desert "monster" | 26 |
| Desert ''monster'' | 34 |
| Desert | 6 |
| Deseret, today | 14 |
| Deseret, to some | 16 |
| Deseret, now | 12 |
| Deseret's successor | 23 |
| Deseret's state | 19 |
| Deseret denizen: Var. | 21 |
| Deseret bloom | 13 |
| Deseret now | 12 |
| Desensitizes | 12 |
| Desensitized | 12 |
| Desensitize | 11 |
| Deseeding machines | 18 |
| Deseeders | 9 |
| Deseeded, as cotton | 19 |
| Desecrations | 12 |
| Desecration? | 12 |
| Desecrates | 10 |
| Desecrate | 9 |
| Desdemona, to Othello | 21 |
| Desdemona's undoer | 22 |
| Desdemona's tormentor | 25 |
| Desdemona's love, in opera | 30 |
| Desdemona's love | 20 |
| Desdemona's killer | 22 |
| Desdemona's husband was one | 31 |
| Desdemona's husband and murderer | 36 |
| Desdemona's husband | 23 |
| Desdemona's hubby | 21 |
| Desdemona's handkerchief, e.g. | 34 |
| Desdemona's faithful servant | 32 |
| Desdemona's detractor | 25 |
| Desdemona's accuser | 23 |
| Desdemona loved one | 19 |
| Desde Madrid a Mallorca | 23 |
| Descry | 6 |
| Descriptor of Willie Mays | 25 |
| Descriptor of some funds | 24 |
| Descriptor of Scarlett O'Hara | 33 |
| Descriptor of a sea snake's tail | 36 |
| Descriptor for wrinkled hands | 29 |
| Descriptor for tiny towns | 25 |
| Descriptor for this puzzle's theme | 38 |
| Descriptor for some gospels that are part of the New Testament apocrypha, that comes from the Greek word for "knowledge" | 130 |
| Descriptor for some dorms | 25 |
| Descriptor for papers or pills | 30 |
| Descriptor for Ming | 19 |
| Descriptor for many hip-hop musicians | 37 |
| Descriptor for many a supermodel | 32 |
| Descriptor for longish pants | 28 |
| Descriptor for Ethelred | 23 |
| Descriptor for chapped hands | 28 |
| Descriptor for Casey | 20 |
| Descriptor for Bigfoot | 22 |
| Descriptor for Abner or Kim | 27 |
| Descriptor for a winged item | 28 |