| Tuaregs' milieu | 19 |
| Tuaregs' home | 17 |
| Tuareg's land | 17 |
| Tibesti Mountains setting | 25 |
| Symbol of aridity | 17 |
| Sienna brown | 12 |
| Setting for much of "The English Patient" | 51 |
| Sere region | 11 |
| Scene of "Beau Geste" | 31 |
| Sands of Algeria | 16 |
| Saint-Exupéry's mysterious desert | 40 |
| Rommel's battleground | 25 |
| One-third of Africa | 19 |
| Noted Las Vegas casino | 22 |
| Nomad's land | 16 |
| N. African desert | 17 |
| Much of North Africa | 20 |
| Much of Mauritania | 18 |
| Much of Libya and Algeria | 25 |
| Much of Chad | 12 |
| Much of Algeria | 15 |
| Most of North Africa | 20 |
| Mali's desert | 17 |
| Libyan hot spot | 15 |
| Libyan expanse | 14 |
| Largest African desert | 22 |
| Large hot spot | 14 |
| It's larger than Australia | 30 |
| It's just desert | 20 |
| It's hot and dry most of the year | 37 |
| It's 3.5 million square miles | 33 |
| Huge desert | 11 |
| Home to many Berbers | 20 |
| Great wasteland | 15 |
| Egypt's desert | 18 |
| Desert that's larger than the contiguous 48 states | 54 |
| Desert that covers most of North Africa | 39 |
| Desert south of the Atlas Mountains | 35 |
| Desert in North Africa | 22 |
| Desert bordering the Red Sea | 28 |
| Clive Cussler best seller | 25 |
| Caravan site | 12 |
| Camel's place | 17 |
| Bygone Las Vegas hotel/casino with a roller coaster | 51 |
| Bogart movie | 12 |
| Big dry spot | 12 |
| Big dry patch | 13 |
| Bedouins' home | 18 |
| Bedouin's milieu | 20 |
| Bedouin's domain | 20 |
| Arid region | 11 |
| Arid place | 10 |
| Arid expanse in Africa | 22 |
| Arabic word for "desert" | 34 |
| 3 1/2 million square mile expanse | 33 |
| 2005 Matthew McConaughey movie | 30 |
| 1943 war film set in a desert | 29 |
| 1943 Humphrey Bogart film | 25 |
| 1943 Bogart movie | 17 |
| "The ostrich roams the great ___. / Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra": Ogden Nash | 95 |
| "Desert" in Arabic | 28 |
| '43 Bogart flick | 20 |
| ___ Desert (after translation, "Desert Desert") | 57 |
| Extremely hot and dry | 21 |
| Extremely arid | 14 |
| Very hot and dry | 16 |
| Very arid | 9 |
| Awfully dry | 11 |
| Sub-___ Africa | 14 |
| Resembling part of Africa | 25 |
| Pretty darn dry | 15 |
| Pertaining to a large desert | 28 |
| Of a desert | 11 |
| Of a barren expanse | 19 |
| Like Tuareg tribes | 18 |
| Like some North African terrain | 31 |
| Like some climates | 18 |
| Like much of Niger | 18 |
| Like much of Africa | 19 |
| Like most of Mali | 17 |
| Like many Bedouins | 18 |
| In need of a shower? | 20 |
| Dry and hot | 11 |
| Acutely arid | 12 |
| Indian title of respect | 23 |
| Title of respect in colonial India | 34 |
| Indian term of respect | 22 |
| Master, in Madras | 17 |
| Address in colonial India | 25 |
| Sir, in old India | 17 |
| Hindu master | 12 |
| Sir, in colonial India | 22 |
| Indian address | 14 |
| Title in colonial India | 23 |
| Term of address in colonial India | 33 |
| Old Indian honorific | 20 |
| Master, in India | 16 |
| Master, in Calcutta | 19 |
| Madras mister | 13 |
| Term of address in Kipling | 26 |