Confusing pairs Crossword

A place where there is mostly no water, heaps of sand and cactuses. Also in this place there is incredible heat.
A delicious sweet treat, that is eaten for your own pleasure.
The same meaning of silence
To receive or undertake something offered
Not including or other than
The opportunity to approach or enter a place
Something not real but thought to be there or real
You are aware of
An amount of something that is more than necessary
High in station, rank or repute
Likely to occur at any moment
Actually, really or truly
To refer casually or indirectly
To avoid or escape by speed, cleverness, trickery
Same meaning to produced results. Eg (his protest had no___)
To produce an effect or change in
To determine the exact dimension, capacity, quantity or measurement
Something as a glove, thrown down by an medieval knight as to challenge to combat
Excluding, save, but
The inner sense of what's right and what's wrong