| Decayed matter used as fuel | 27 |
| Decayed or deteriorated | 23 |
| Decayed swamp matter | 20 |
| Decayed vegetable matter | 24 |
| Decayed, as wood | 16 |
| Decayed-rock material | 21 |
| Decaying | 8 |
| Decaying bog mosses | 19 |
| Decaying state | 14 |
| Decaying substances | 19 |
| Decaying, in a way | 18 |
| Decaying: Comb. form | 20 |
| Decays | 6 |
| Decays gradually | 16 |
| Decca jazz artist | 17 |
| Decca rival | 11 |
| Deceased | 8 |
| Deceased campanologist? | 23 |
| Deceased leader whose Nobel Peace Prize was stolen in 2007 | 58 |
| Deceased writer whose work was the basis for a hit 2005 film | 60 |
| Deceased Wu-Tang member, briefly | 32 |
| Decedent's ___ (law school phrase) | 38 |
| Deceit | 6 |
| Deceit on a bed? | 16 |
| Deceitful | 9 |
| Deceitful bunch | 15 |
| Deceitful character | 19 |
| Deceitful cleverness | 20 |
| Deceitful declaration | 21 |
| Deceitful device | 16 |
| Deceitful doings | 16 |
| Deceitful fellow | 16 |
| Deceitful lobbyist? | 19 |
| Deceitful one | 13 |
| Deceitful one's pair | 24 |
| Deceitful ones | 14 |
| Deceitful people | 16 |
| Deceitful person | 16 |
| Deceitful plan | 14 |
| Deceitful salesman's tactics | 33 |
| Deceitful scoundrel | 19 |
| Deceitful sculptor? | 19 |
| Deceitful sort | 14 |
| Deceitful sort, on the playground | 33 |
| Deceitful sorts | 15 |
| Deceitful trick | 15 |
| Deceitful tricks | 16 |
| Deceitfully agreeable | 21 |
| Deceitfully altering, as facts | 30 |
| Deceitfully incriminate | 23 |
| Deceitfulness | 13 |
| Deceits | 7 |
| Deceive | 7 |
| Deceive and delay | 17 |
| Deceive but good | 16 |
| Deceive by not telling the truth | 32 |
| Deceive by trickery | 19 |
| Deceive or drug | 15 |
| Deceive playfully | 17 |
| Deceive with untruths | 21 |
| Deceive, as with data | 21 |
| Deceive, Ã la a sales rep | 28 |
| Deceive, in a way | 17 |
| Deceive, in slanguage | 21 |
| Deceive, with "in" | 28 |
| Deceived | 8 |
| Deceived by flattery | 20 |
| Deceived by trickery | 20 |
| Deceived Genesis figure | 23 |
| Deceived with a false move | 26 |
| Deceived: Slang | 15 |
| Deceiver | 8 |
| Deceiver's activity | 23 |
| Deceiver's confession | 25 |
| Deceiver's declaration | 26 |
| Deceivers | 9 |
| Deceives | 8 |
| Deceives by coaxing | 19 |
| Deceives into trustfulness | 26 |
| Deceives, for short | 19 |
| Deceives, in slang | 18 |
| Deceives, old-style | 19 |
| Deceives, slangily | 18 |
| Deceives, so to speak | 21 |
| Deceiving | 9 |
| Deceiving movement | 18 |
| Decelerate | 10 |
| Decelerate a car | 16 |
| Decelerated | 11 |
| Decelerates | 11 |
| Decelerates, as with a space shuttle | 36 |
| Decelerating | 12 |
| Deceleratrix (a la Mr. Burns) | 29 |
| Decem et tres | 13 |
| Decem ___ (Latin decade) | 24 |
| December 13, e.g. | 17 |
| December 13th, e.g. | 19 |
| December 1776 battle site | 25 |
| December 21, and the occasion for this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| December 24 and 31 | 18 |