Dry as a desert
The crossword clue "Dry as a desert" is answered by ARID, a 4-letter entry. Used 121 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
ARID
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ARID answer page.
Used 121 times across 26 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 15 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- SAHARAN (6 uses in xd)
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
- 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
- Desert-dry - used 22 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.
- 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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