Halsey: Badlands

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Liquid essential for survival in an otherwise barren expanse (5)
• Sweet syrup that drips deceptively before stinging (5)
• Psychological retreat seeking refuge from a suffocating reality (8)
• Precious element tarnished by toxic love in the desert (4)
• Violent squall whipping grit across the badlands (5)
• Bleak speculative society serving as the setting for the album (8)
• Rapid oxidation producing sparks that consume desolate cities (4)
• Chilling demeanor in the absence of emotional warmth (4)
• Hurried contest speeding down the highway away from the past (4)
• Devoid of substance, like vacant bottles in the dawn light (5)
• Coloring a distinct shade of sorrow on the debut record's palette (4)
• Glowing inert gas illuminating urban decay within dystopia (4)
• Ancient holiday that sounds imperial yet screams for an escape (5)
• Residue left behind when youthful tempers settle (3)

Down

• Downpour washing over the arid landscape of lost youth (4)
• Shadowed hours when the nocturnal kingdom comes alive (5)
• Pumping organ battered by heavy basslines and heartbreak (5)
• Real given moniker behind the anagrammatic stage identity (6)
• Bare acoustic reimagining devoid of dense synthesizer production (8)
• Receiver crackling with frequencies of distant stations at midnight (5)
• Total detachment experienced in the center of an empty desert (9)
• Untamed state shared in a notable collaboration with Troye Sivan (4)
• Arid geographical expanse surrounding the fictional refuge (6)
• Outlying residential sector suffocating youth with monotony (8)
• Subtle glow surrounding an ethereal pop persona (4)
• Early vitality that burns brightly before growing cynical (5)

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