| Defiant reply | 13 |
| Defiant refusal | 15 |
| Defiant question sometimes followed by "Would you still..." | 69 |
| Defiant query | 13 |
| Defiant ones | 12 |
| Defiant one | 11 |
| Defiant kid's dare | 22 |
| Defiant kid | 11 |
| Defiant exclamation | 19 |
| Defiant diaper wearer's taunt? | 34 |
| Defiant demeanor | 16 |
| Defiant declaration | 19 |
| Defiant dare | 12 |
| Defiant cry | 11 |
| Defiant challenge to an order | 29 |
| Defiant challenge | 17 |
| Defiant answer to "Shall!" | 36 |
| Defiant | 7 |
| Defervesce | 10 |
| Defers, with "off" | 28 |
| Defers | 6 |
| Deferred-payment plan: Abbr. | 28 |
| Deferred payment of a sort | 26 |
| Deferred payment at the bar | 27 |
| Deferred payment | 16 |
| Deferred paying until last call | 31 |
| Deferred | 8 |
| Deferral | 8 |
| Deferments | 10 |
| Deferential gesture | 19 |
| Deferential denial | 18 |
| Deferential bow | 15 |
| Deferential approvals | 21 |
| Deferential | 11 |
| Deference | 9 |
| Defer, with "off" | 27 |
| Defer, as a motion | 18 |
| Defer payment, perhaps | 22 |
| Defer or differ ending | 22 |
| Defer ending | 12 |
| Defer acting | 12 |
| Defer (to) | 10 |
| Defer | 5 |
| Defensive ___ | 13 |
| Defensive woes? (1967) | 22 |
| Defensive wear | 14 |
| Defensive weapon, for short | 27 |
| Defensive way to gather, oater-style | 36 |
| Defensive walls | 15 |
| Defensive wall around an outer court of a castle | 48 |
| Defensive wall | 14 |
| Defensive trump play | 20 |
| Defensive trench | 16 |
| Defensive tissues | 17 |
| Defensive tennis stroke | 23 |
| Defensive tennis shot | 21 |
| Defensive team's goal line to 20 yard line, in football lingo | 65 |
| Defensive tackle Warren ___ | 27 |
| Defensive structure | 19 |
| Defensive stream | 16 |
| Defensive strategy in basketball | 32 |
| Defensive strategy against an NFL pass receiver | 47 |
| Defensive strategies | 20 |
| Defensive story | 15 |
| Defensive stalwart, in football | 31 |
| Defensive stalwart | 18 |
| Defensive sprays | 16 |
| Defensive spray | 15 |
| Defensive sportsstrategy | 24 |
| Defensive skill | 15 |
| Defensive shots by Roger Federer | 32 |
| Defensive shot, in tennis | 25 |
| Defensive shell | 15 |
| Defensive section with fewer players, in football | 49 |
| Defensive schoolyard retort | 27 |
| Defensive rings | 15 |
| Defensive ring | 14 |
| Defensive return | 16 |
| Defensive retort | 16 |
| Defensive responses | 19 |
| Defensive response to a doubter | 31 |
| Defensive reply | 15 |
| Defensive position in fencing | 29 |
| Defensive position | 18 |
| Defensive playground retort | 27 |
| Defensive play | 14 |
| Defensive obstacle | 18 |
| Defensive maneuver | 18 |
| Defensive linemen: Abbr. | 24 |
| Defensive linemen, at times | 27 |
| Defensive lineman Sistrunk of the '70s Oakland Raiders | 58 |
| Defensive line? | 15 |
| Defensive karate move? | 22 |
| Defensive holding or encroachment | 33 |
| Defensive grating in medieval castles | 37 |
| Defensive fortifications | 24 |
| Defensive fortification | 23 |
| Defensive footballers | 21 |
| Defensive footballer | 20 |
| Defensive football tactic | 25 |