Answer:

deserts

Answer	Crossword Clue
DESERTS	Barren areas
DESERTS	Arid places
DESERTS	Urban areas without access to fresh food, so to speak

DESERTS	Runs away
DESERTS	Takes off
DESERTS	Gobi and Negev
DESERTS	Strands
DESERTS	Mojave and Gobi
DESERTS	Reduced rainfall regions
DESERTS	They may be just
DESERTS	Strands, or bad places to be stranded

DESERTS	Forsakes
DESERTS	Well-earned punishment
DESERTS	Fails to support
DESERTS	Leaves high and dry
DESERTS	Leaves in the lurch
DESERTS	Caravan sites
DESERTS	Abandons
DESERTS	Arid expanses

DESERTS	Runs away from military duty
DESERTS	Leaves without leave
DESERTS	Runs out on
DESERTS	Gobi and Kalahari
DESERTS	Sandy expanses
DESERTS	Leaves flat
DESERTS	Sahara and Gobi
DESERTS	Wastelands

DESERTS	Gobi and Sahara
DESERTS	Just ..
DESERTS	Some just stuff
DESERTS	"Just" punishment
DESERTS	Leaves alone
DESERTS	Rainforests' opposites
DESERTS	Places for oases
DESERTS	Oasis places

DESERTS	Comeuppance
DESERTS	Libyan battlegrounds.
DESERTS	Phenomena of Australia.
DESERTS	Sahara, Gobi, Death Valley.
DESERTS	Black Rock, Mojave, etc.