Desert beast

The answer

CAMEL

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CAMEL answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for CAMEL

Every other clue in this collection answered by CAMEL, most used first.

• Caravan beast - used 42 times, most recently in 2025
• Caravan creature - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Ship of the desert - used 30 times, most recently in 2022
• Dromedary - used 24 times, most recently in 2019
• Desert transport - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Desert mount - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Beast of burden. - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Bactrian - used 13 times, most recently in 1996
• Caravan animal - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Caravan carrier - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Caravan member - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Desert caravan beast - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Saharan transport - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Sahara beast - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
• Yellowish brown - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Desert animal - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Pack animal - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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.

• Desert plants - CACTI, used 73 times
• Israeli desert - NEGEV, used 70 times
• Desert haven - OASIS, used 69 times
• Desert refuge - OASIS, used 62 times
• Beast of Borden - ELSIE, used 44 times
• Desert flora - CACTI, used 42 times

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