Desert features
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Desert features
Explore arid landscapes, an optical effect and selected living adaptations.
Spiny succulent in the plant family Cactaceae (6)
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About Desert features
4 Across answers meet 4 Down answers. Explore arid landscapes, an optical effect and selected living adaptations. Sand dunes are one feature here; deserts need not all be hot or sandy.
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Desert features
Themed · 9 × 9 · ClueFill · AI-assisted original · Content checked
Across
2. Optical illusion caused by light bending through layers of air (6)
4. Active mainly at night, as many desert animals are (9)
6. Adjective for a climate with very little precipitation (4)
8. Eight-legged arachnid with pincers and a stinging tail (8)
Down
1. Spiny succulent in the plant family Cactaceae (6)
3. Usually dry desert channel that may flow after rain (4)
5. Fertile place in an arid region with an available water source (5)
7. Mound or ridge of wind-deposited sand (4)