Desert wanderer

The answer

NOMAD

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Used 17 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1947. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOMAD

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

• Wanderer - used 266 times, most recently in 2026
• Bedouin - used 23 times, most recently in 2016
• Itinerant - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Land rover - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Rover - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• One sans permanent address - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• One without a permanent address - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Vagabond - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
• One with wanderlust - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Drifter - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Roamer - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• One for whom all roads lead to roam? - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• One without roots - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Wandering one - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Bedouin, for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Permanent-address lacker - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Rolling stone - used 6 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.

• Desert plants - CACTI, used 73 times
• Israeli desert - NEGEV, used 70 times
• Desert haven - OASIS, used 69 times
• Desert refuge - OASIS, used 62 times
• Desert flora - CACTI, used 42 times
• Desert havens - OASES, used 40 times

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