Drought

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Harden topsoil under unrelenting summer sun (4)
• Official mandate forbidding lawn watering and car washing (11)
• Subsurface moisture drawn up by wells when rivers fail (11)
• Droop limply from an extreme lack of water (4)
• Essential liquid in desperately short supply during dry spells (5)
• High temperature that rapidly evaporates surface reservoirs (4)

Down

• Fine powdery soil swept up by sudden desert winds (4)
• Incapable of producing crops or supporting plant life (6)
• Having little or no precipitation, like the Sahara (4)
• Artificial application of channeled water to sustain dry fields (10)
• Vast, sandy biome receiving under ten inches of precipitation yearly (6)
• Intense physiological craving for liquid (6)
• Limit consumption of tap supplies to strict daily allowances (6)
• Stripped of vegetation due to lack of rainfall (4)

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