• Abandons
• Arabian and Atacama
• Barren areas
• Cacti locales
• Caravan sites
• Comeuppance
• Death Valley and others
• Dry regions
• Fails to support
• Forsakes
• Gobi and Kalahari
• Gobi and Mojave
• Gobi and Negev
• Gobi and Sahara
• Hot spots
• Iran's Dasht-e Lut and Dasht-e Kavir, for example
• Jilts
• Just ___
• Just punishment
• Kalahari and Gobi
• Kalahari and Kara Kum
• Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum
• Leaves 500 steers in the lurch
• Leaves alone
• Leaves flat
• Leaves high and dry
• Leaves in the lurch
• Leaves the Armed Forces illegally
• Meerkats' milieus
• Mojave and Gobi
• Negev and Nefud
• Oasis places
• Places with oases
• Quits
• Rainforests' opposites
• Reduced rainfall regions
• Runs away
• Runs out on
• Sahara and Gobi
• Sandy expanses
• Some just stuff
• Strands
• Strands, or bad places to be stranded
• Takes off
• Takes off wrongly
• They may be just
• They're sometimes just
• Wastelands
• Wastes what you've got coming (7)
• Well-earned punishment
• Where 500 steers get thirsty
• An outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved