The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 4 letter word DUST BOWL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DUST BOWL
- Eg ash wood where little rain falls
- What cellist’s cleaner might do left in depressed part of US?
- Sprinkle black bird in parched area
- Department’s organised but slow — it isn’t productive
- Would winds enveloping such terrain be visible as fronts?
- Part of USA that’s excited but slow to support Democrat
- Drought location ruined barbie, so Spooner phoned to say?
- Area that’s become very dry and stony allotment according to Spooner
- Dry zone, mostly boring, around street somewhere in London
- Bird of the night tracks street, probing call here in central US
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