Related Clues:

• Jump ship
• Leave stranded
• Barren area
• Dry land
• Gobi, for one
• Gila monster's habitat
• Xerophyte's home
• Rub' al Khali, for one
• Gobi or Mojave
• Forsake
• Oasis setting
• Roughly a third of the earth's land surface
• 22 Across, for one
• Painted, for one
• Topographical adjective