Historical clue formulations

• Hot spot — 2026-04-10
• Oasis setting — 2025-09-08
• Parched place — 2025-06-15
• Oasis locale — 2025-02-24
• Roughly one-third of the earth's surface — 2023-06-23
• Wasteland — 2023-03-30
• Bedouin's home — 2022-09-07
• Hot spot — 2021-03-03
• Gobi or Mojave — 2020-07-06
• Ditch — 2020-05-29
• Much of Chile — 2019-02-09
• Antarctica, for one — 2018-04-27
• Leave in the lurch — 2014-11-12
• Leave one's company? — 2014-10-18
• Much of Arabia — 2014-10-01
• Abandon — 2012-10-28
• Jerboa's home — 2012-03-24
• Abandon — 2011-07-19
• Prickly pear's place — 2011-04-09
• Roughly a third of the earth's land surface — 2008-02-15
• Gobi or Mojave — 2007-07-02
• Most of Mauritania — 2007-06-08
• Xerophyte's home — 2007-04-13
• Dry land — 2006-07-15
• Leave — 2006-07-06
• Leave alone — 2005-09-09
• "The English Patient" setting — 2005-04-03
• Leave — 2005-03-19
• Barren — 2000-06-17
• Gila monster's home — 1999-09-20
• Sahara, e.g. — 1999-06-28
• Rub' al Khali, e.g. — 1997-12-11
• Ditch — 1997-08-08
• Camel country — 1997-04-11
• Saguaro locale — 1995-03-09
• Go AWOL — 1993-12-06