North African desert

The answer

SAHARA

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SAHARA answer page.

Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SAHARA

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

• African desert - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
• African expanse - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
• African hot spot - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Much of North Africa - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• North African expanse - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Much of Libya - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• World's largest desert - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Most of Libya - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• About 30% of Africa - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Largest desert - used 10 times, most recently in 2008
• Largest hot desert - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Arid expanse - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
• Much of Mali - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Wasteland - used 8 times, most recently in 1999
• 1943 Bogart film - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• African sands - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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.

• African fly - TSETSE, used 82 times
• African antelopes - ELANDS, used 36 times
• African antelope - IMPALA, used 34 times
• Desert illusion - MIRAGE, used 31 times
• Actress North - SHEREE, used 20 times
• African menace - TSETSE, used 18 times

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