Possible Clues:

• Lewd Santa included in 'The . . . . . . . . .', poem by T S Eliot
• Let cutter put up with area devoid of vegetation
• Allowed to cut roughly back as well as desert
• Fail to cultivate and produce desert
• Wilderness once used to be associated with antelope
• Barren region used to be teeming principally with antelope
• Desolate setting for a game of chess
• Pale daughter embraces standing stone in desolation
• Drunk grasps article on Latin work by Eliot
• Stella drops pound in magician's bar in wilderness