| SAHARADESERT | Arid wilderness of roughly 3.5 million square miles |
| GOBIDESERT | Arid wilderness of Mongolia and northern China |
| OCEANIA | About 3.5 million square miles |
| SAHARA | It's 3.5 million square miles |
| DESERT | Arid wilderness |
| MICRONESIA | The Federated States of ____ has 271 square miles of land and just over a million square miles of the Pacific Ocean |
| CANADA | Second-largest country in the world by total area, covering approximately 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles) (6) |
| GOBI | About half a million square miles of Asia |
| AREA | Roughly 3.8 million square miles, for the United States |
| ASIA | Area of about 16 million square miles |
| PACIFIC | Spanning some 63 million square miles, the world's largest ocean (7) |
| PLASMA | Hot ionized material of which all stars are composed, made up of roughly equal numbers of positive ions and free electrons; sometimes regarded as the fourth state of matter (6) |
| NEGEV | Some of the captive generation returned to the wilderness of Israel (5) |
| AQUITAINE | Region of south-west France (15,984 sq miles; pop 3.5 million), bordering on the Bay of Biscay (9) |
| ENGEDI | Biblical place in the wilderness of Judah, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, whose vineyards were celebrated in Solomon's time |
| STREAM | A group of pupils in a school of roughly equal ability or following a particular course of study (6) |
| MOVETHEKINGSROO | Mid-game chess strategy practiced only in the wilderness of the outback? |
| SEA | The Arctic is a vast wilderness of snow, ice, and ___ |
| PLAIN | Tract of land of roughly uniform elevation |
| TREND | Extremes of terror, aim of roughly defined movement (5) |
