Arid
Crossword Clue and Answers
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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in Irish Independent - Simple.
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Publications
- Irish Independent - Simple - Monday, 29 Nov 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 9 Apr 2021
- Irish Independent - Simple - Friday, 19 Feb 2021
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021
- USA Today - Wednesday, 28 Oct 2020
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Wednesday, 9 Sep 2020
- Irish Independent - Simple - Thursday, 23 Jul 2020
- Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 11 Apr 2020
- The Daily Mail Quick - Monday, 24 Feb 2020
- The Daily Mail Quick - Monday, 11 Feb 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Thursday, 29 Jun 2017
- Irish Times Simplex Crossword - Thursday, 29 Sep 2016
Crossword Answers
3 letters
DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
4 letters
SERE
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"
5 letters
VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
XERIC
Being deficient in moisture; "deserts provide xeric environments"
6 letters
BARREN
Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
JEJUNE
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"
7 letters
BONEDRY
Without a trace of moisture; as dry as a weathered bone; "bone-dry leaves are a fire hazard"; "a drier to get the clothes bone dry"
PARCHED
Toasted or roasted slightly; "parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet"
STERILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
SAHARAN
A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
THIRSTY
Feeling a need or desire to drink; "after playing hard the children were thirsty"
TEDIOUS
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
8 letters
LIFELESS
Lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
RAINLESS
Lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies"
9 letters
WATERLESS
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
INFERTILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
ANHYDROUS
Without water; especially without water of crystallization
UNFERTILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
DESICCATE
Remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me"
FRUITLESS
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
10 letters
DESICCATED
Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
UNFRUITFUL
Not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production
11 letters
UNINSPIRING
Depressing to the spirit; "a villa of uninspiring design"
12 letters
UNPRODUCTIVE
Not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"
13 letters
UNIMAGINATIVE
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
UNINTERESTING
Characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
UNSTIMULATING
Not stimulating