| Defunct science magazine | 24 |
| Defunct science periodical | 26 |
| Defunct science-fiction magazine cofounded by Bob Guccione | 58 |
| Defunct space station | 21 |
| Defunct spinoff from "Alice" | 38 |
| Defunct sports grp. | 19 |
| Defunct sports league that used a red, white and blue ball: Abbr. | 65 |
| Defunct sports org. since '76 | 33 |
| Defunct sports org. since 1976 | 30 |
| Defunct sports org. that replaced the opening coin toss with a scrum | 68 |
| Defunct sports org. with the Denver Gold and Chicago Blitz | 58 |
| Defunct telecom giant | 21 |
| Defunct Texas team | 18 |
| Defunct Times Square hotel | 26 |
| Defunct treaty acronym | 22 |
| Defunct treaty org. | 19 |
| Defunct treaty org. of 1954 | 27 |
| Defunct TV network founded by the Bakkers | 41 |
| Defunct TV network whose only sports package was the defunct XFL | 64 |
| Defunct U.S. coins | 18 |
| Defunct weekly | 14 |
| Defunct women's magazine | 28 |
| Defuses a tense situation, maybe | 32 |
| Defy | 4 |
| Defy a parent? | 14 |
| Defy authority | 14 |
| Defy customs | 12 |
| Defy gravity | 12 |
| Defy one's parents, possibly | 32 |
| Defy openly | 11 |
| Defy the manual for | 19 |
| Defy the odds | 13 |
| Defy waterproofing, in a way | 28 |
| Defying defeat | 14 |
| Defying logic | 13 |
| Deg. awarders | 13 |
| Deg. divisions | 14 |
| Deg. earned after years in a studio | 35 |
| Deg. earned by just one U.S. president | 38 |
| Deg. for a bridge builder? | 26 |
| Deg. for a budding entrepreneur | 31 |
| Deg. for a canine expert? | 25 |
| Deg. for a cellist, e.g. | 24 |
| Deg. for a city developer | 25 |
| Deg. for a corporate climber, perhaps | 37 |
| Deg. for a corporate ladder climber | 35 |
| Deg. for a corporate ladder climber, perhaps | 44 |
| Deg. for a crowning achiever? | 29 |
| Deg. for a future tycoon, perhaps | 33 |
| Deg. for a grad student in film studies | 39 |
| Deg. for a graphic designer | 27 |
| Deg. for a legal eagle | 22 |
| Deg. for a museum curator | 25 |
| Deg. for a Platonist | 20 |
| Deg. for a prof | 15 |
| Deg. for a teacher | 18 |
| Deg. for a thespian | 19 |
| Deg. for a would-be Chagall | 27 |
| Deg. for a would-be magnate | 27 |
| Deg. for a would-be Wood | 24 |
| Deg. for a yuppie | 17 |
| Deg. for an entrepreneur | 24 |
| Deg. for an executive | 21 |
| Deg. for corporate execs | 24 |
| Deg. for Dilbert creator Scott Adams | 36 |
| Deg. for execs | 14 |
| Deg. for one who cares about caries | 35 |
| Deg. for oral experts | 21 |
| 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 Tim Whatley on "Seinfeld" | 44 |
| Deg. for W. T. G. Morton | 24 |
| Deg. from a Yeshiva | 19 |
| Deg. from Dartmouth's Tuck School | 37 |
| Deg. from M.I.T. Sloan | 22 |
| Deg. from Parsons, perhaps | 26 |
| Deg. from the Kellogg School | 28 |
| Deg. from Wharton | 17 |
| 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. holder | 11 |
| Deg. in biology or physics | 26 |
| Deg. in community studies | 25 |
| Deg. issuer | 11 |
| Deg. of the professional who may instruct you to do the last words of the four longest puzzle answers | 101 |
| Deg. requiring workshops | 24 |
| Deg. that no U.S. president has ever held | 41 |
| Deg. that's all about teeth | 31 |
| Deg. Wilson earned | 18 |
| Degas | 5 |
| Degas contemporary | 18 |
| Degas detail | 12 |
| Degas display, e.g. | 19 |
| Degas haunt | 11 |