| Defense org. since '49 | 26 |
| Defense org. since 1949 | 23 |
| Defense org. since November 2001 | 32 |
| Defense org. until 1992 | 23 |
| Defense org.? | 13 |
| Defense pact | 12 |
| Defense pact of 1954 | 20 |
| Defense pact signed in 1954 | 27 |
| Defense pact since 1949 | 23 |
| Defense planners in Wash. | 25 |
| Defense planning gp. | 20 |
| Defense planning grp. | 21 |
| Defense ploy | 12 |
| Defense positions | 17 |
| Defense program | 15 |
| Defense Sec. | 12 |
| Defense secretary | 17 |
| Defense secretary after Cheney | 30 |
| Defense secretary after Gates | 29 |
| Defense Secretary Aspin | 23 |
| Defense secretary before Richardson | 35 |
| Defense secretary Chuck | 23 |
| Defense secretary Panetta | 25 |
| Defense secretary under Clinton | 31 |
| Defense secretary under Nixon | 29 |
| Defense site: Abbr. | 19 |
| Defense statement | 17 |
| Defense strategy that's not an option in some states | 56 |
| Defense structure | 17 |
| Defense syst. | 13 |
| Defense team: Abbr. | 19 |
| Defense teams, e.g. | 19 |
| Defense type | 12 |
| Defense weapons: Abbr. | 22 |
| Defense witness, perhaps | 24 |
| Defense's focal point | 25 |
| Defense, perhaps | 16 |
| Defense-alliance acronym | 24 |
| Defense-mechanism theorist | 26 |
| Defense-pact acronym | 20 |
| Defense-policy gp. | 18 |
| Defense-treaty gp. | 18 |
| Defense grp. formed in Bogotá | 36 |
| Defenseless | 11 |
| Defenseless target | 18 |
| Defenseless victim | 18 |
| Defenseless victims or Bedard works | 35 |
| Defenseman Bobby | 16 |
| Defenseman Bobby et al. | 23 |
| Defenseman who ended his career with the Chicago Black Hawks | 60 |
| Defenses developed during the Cold War, briefly | 47 |
| Defensible | 10 |
| Defensive act | 13 |
| Defensive alliance since 1949 | 29 |
| Defensive and offensive units | 29 |
| Defensive anger, metaphorically | 31 |
| Defensive armaments | 19 |
| Defensive armor | 15 |
| Defensive art | 13 |
| Defensive attire | 16 |
| Defensive back, at times | 24 |
| Defensive backfield position, in football | 41 |
| Defensive barricade | 19 |
| Defensive barrier | 17 |
| Defensive barriers | 18 |
| Defensive basketball tactic | 27 |
| Defensive body covering | 23 |
| Defensive comeback | 18 |
| Defensive covering | 18 |
| Defensive denial | 16 |
| Defensive device | 16 |
| Defensive ditch | 15 |
| Defensive ditches | 17 |
| Defensive effort | 16 |
| Defensive embankment | 20 |
| Defensive end Antwan | 20 |
| Defensive end Umenyiora | 23 |
| Defensive end's stats | 25 |
| Defensive excavation | 20 |
| Defensive feeling | 17 |
| Defensive fence | 15 |
| Defensive fencing positions in which the top of the blade is pointed at the opponent's knee | 95 |
| Defensive fiber | 15 |
| Defensive football tactic | 25 |
| Defensive footballer | 20 |
| Defensive footballers | 21 |
| Defensive fortification | 23 |
| Defensive fortifications | 24 |
| Defensive grating in medieval castles | 37 |
| Defensive holding or encroachment | 33 |
| Defensive karate move? | 22 |
| Defensive line? | 15 |
| Defensive lineman Sistrunk of the '70s Oakland Raiders | 58 |
| Defensive linemen, at times | 27 |
| Defensive linemen: Abbr. | 24 |
| Defensive maneuver | 18 |
| Defensive obstacle | 18 |
| Defensive play | 14 |
| Defensive playground retort | 27 |
| Defensive position | 18 |