| Defunct humor magazine | 22 |
| Defunct indie rock supergroup | 29 |
| Defunct men's wear | 22 |
| Defunct ministry initials | 25 |
| Defunct motor vehicles | 22 |
| Defunct New York venue | 22 |
| Defunct political machine | 25 |
| Defunct political party | 23 |
| Defunct pro football team | 25 |
| Defunct pro sports org. | 23 |
| Defunct Russian assembly | 24 |
| Defunct Russian parliament | 26 |
| Defunct sci-fi magazine | 23 |
| Defunct science magazine | 24 |
| Defunct science periodical | 26 |
| Defunct Times Square hotel | 26 |
| Defunct treaty acronym | 22 |
| Defunct treaty org. of 1954 | 27 |
| Defunct women's magazine | 28 |
| Defy waterproofing, in a way | 28 |
| Deg. for a bridge builder? | 26 |
| Deg. for a canine expert? | 25 |
| Deg. for a cellist, e.g. | 24 |
| Deg. for a city developer | 25 |
| Deg. for a crowning achiever? | 29 |
| Deg. for a graphic designer | 27 |
| Deg. for a legal eagle | 22 |
| Deg. for a museum curator | 25 |
| Deg. for a would-be Chagall | 27 |
| Deg. for a would-be magnate | 27 |
| Deg. for a would-be Wood | 24 |
| Deg. for an entrepreneur | 24 |
| Deg. for corporate execs | 24 |
| Deg. for Painless Parker | 24 |
| Deg. for Samuel Johnson | 23 |
| Deg. for some Harvard profs | 27 |
| Deg. for some sports agts. | 26 |
| Deg. for theater types | 22 |
| Deg. for W. T. G. Morton | 24 |
| Deg. from M.I.T. Sloan | 22 |
| Deg. from Parsons, perhaps | 26 |
| Deg. from the Kellogg School | 28 |
| Deg. given to Betty Ford | 24 |
| Deg. held by George W. Bush | 27 |
| Deg. held by Jill Biden | 23 |
| Deg. held by Mitt Romney | 24 |
| Deg. held by Woodrow Wilson | 27 |
| Deg. in biology or physics | 26 |
| Deg. in community studies | 25 |
| Deg. requiring workshops | 24 |
| DeGaulle's birthplace | 25 |
| DeGaulle's schnozz | 24 |
| DeGaulle's summers | 22 |
| DeGeneres of daytime talk | 25 |
| DeGeneres's sitcom | 22 |
| Degree after an M.A., perhaps | 29 |
| Degree after an M.A., say | 25 |
| Degree after being ABD | 22 |
| Degree candidate's exam | 27 |
| Degree candidate's hurdle | 29 |
| Degree for a CEO, often | 23 |
| Degree for a corp. exec | 23 |
| Degree for a future C.E.O. | 26 |
| Degree for a hosp. worker | 25 |
| Degree for a NASA worker | 24 |
| Degree for a novelist? | 22 |
| Degree for an English prof. | 27 |
| Degree for James Franco | 23 |
| Degree for many a prof | 22 |
| Degree held by many a CEO | 25 |
| Degree holder, briefly | 22 |
| Degree holder, for short | 24 |
| Degree in martial arts | 22 |
| Degree in mathematics? | 22 |
| Degree of considerable degree | 29 |
| Degree of expertise in judo | 27 |
| Degree of great success | 23 |
| Degree or decibel, e.g. | 23 |
| Degree requirement, maybe | 25 |
| Degree requirement, perhaps | 27 |
| Degree requirement, sometimes | 29 |
| Degree requirements, at times | 29 |
| Degree without a vowel | 22 |
| Degree-seekers' burdens | 27 |
| Degree-seekers' hurdles | 27 |
| degrees Fahrenheit, for H2O | 27 |
| Degrees for C.E.O.'s | 24 |
| Degrees for CEOs, perhaps | 25 |
| Degrees for corp. execs | 23 |
| Degrees for D.A.'s | 22 |
| Degrees for execs, perhaps | 26 |
| Degrees for foreign attys. | 26 |
| Degrees for future attorneys | 28 |
| Degrees for many a CPA | 22 |
| Degrees for many profs. | 23 |
| Degrees held by many CEOs | 25 |
| Degrees in a right angle | 24 |
| Degrees not offered by MIT | 26 |
| Degrees of excellence? | 22 |
| Degrees of heat: Abbr. | 22 |