Desert-dry
The crossword clue "Desert-dry" is answered by ARID, a 4-letter entry. Used 22 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
ARID
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARID answer page.
Used 22 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ARID
Every other clue in this collection answered by ARID, most used first.
- Saharan - used 195 times, most recently in 2026
- Parched - used 189 times, most recently in 2026
- Desertlike - used 170 times, most recently in 2026
- Bone-dry - used 167 times, most recently in 2026
- Dry - used 129 times, most recently in 2026
- Dry as a desert - used 121 times, most recently in 2026
- Very dry - used 99 times, most recently in 2026
- Jejune - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- Dry as dust - used 68 times, most recently in 2022
- Like the Sahara - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
- Like the Gobi - used 60 times, most recently in 2023
- Dry as a bone - used 49 times, most recently in 2026
- Extremely dry - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Like Death Valley - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a desert - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
- Waterless - used 37 times, most recently in 2019
- Uninteresting. - used 32 times, most recently in 2014
- Like the Kalahari - used 31 times, most recently in 2023
- Barren. - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Hot and dry - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Desiccated - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Desert-like - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Like the Mojave - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Mongolian desert - GOBI, used 170 times
- Asian desert - GOBI, used 145 times
- Dry run - TEST, used 106 times
- Dry - SERE, used 87 times
- Bone-dry - SERE, used 60 times
- Very dry, as champagne - BRUT, used 49 times
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