| 2026-04-10 | Hot spot |
| 2025-09-08 | Oasis setting |
| 2025-06-15 | Parched place |
| 2025-02-24 | Oasis locale |
| 2023-06-23 | Roughly one-third of the earth's surface |
| 2023-03-30 | Wasteland |
| 2022-09-07 | Bedouin's home |
| 2021-03-03 | Hot spot |
| 2020-07-06 | Gobi or Mojave |
| 2020-05-29 | Ditch |
| 2019-02-09 | Much of Chile |
| 2018-04-27 | Antarctica, for one |
| 2014-11-12 | Leave in the lurch |
| 2014-10-30 | Hot spot |
| 2014-10-18 | Leave one's company? |
| 2014-10-01 | Much of Arabia |
| 2012-10-28 | Abandon |
| 2012-03-24 | Jerboa's home |
| 2011-07-19 | Abandon |
| 2011-04-09 | Prickly pear's place |
| 2008-02-15 | Roughly a third of the earth's land surface |
| 2007-07-02 | Gobi or Mojave |
| 2007-06-08 | Most of Mauritania |
| 2007-04-13 | Xerophyte's home |
| 2006-07-15 | Dry land |
| 2006-07-06 | Leave |
| 2005-09-09 | Leave alone |
| 2005-04-03 | "The English Patient" setting |
| 2005-03-19 | Leave |
| 2000-06-17 | Barren |
| 1999-09-20 | Gila monster's home |
| 1999-06-28 | Sahara, e.g. |
| 1997-12-11 | Rub' al Khali, e.g. |
| 1997-08-08 | Ditch |
| 1997-04-11 | Camel country |
| 1995-03-09 | Saguaro locale |
| 1993-12-06 | Go AWOL |