| De vie or de seltz preceder | 27 |
| De Witt Clinton's canal | 27 |
| De __: from square one | 22 |
| De ___ (Dallas suburb) | 22 |
| De ___ (from square one) | 24 |
| De ___ (from the beginning) | 27 |
| De ___ (from the start) | 23 |
| De ___ (superfluous): Fr. | 25 |
| De ___ (too much): Fr. | 22 |
| De ___, actor from N.Y.C. | 25 |
| De ___, former Irish P.M. | 25 |
| De ___, Italian movie maker | 27 |
| De-squeaks the Tin Man | 22 |
| De-___ (airport device) | 23 |
| DEA agent's discovery | 25 |
| Deacon Frye's show | 22 |
| Deacon Jones was a famous one | 29 |
| Deacon's masterpiece | 24 |
| Deacon's stole: Var. | 24 |
| Deacon's transport | 22 |
| Dead and loose followers | 24 |
| Dead beat writer's piece? | 29 |
| Dead fans tend to like them | 27 |
| Dead head, affectionately | 25 |
| Dead Man Walking star Sean | 29 |
| Dead man's hand makeup | 26 |
| Dead on one's feet | 22 |
| Dead Sea scroll guardians | 25 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls ascetic | 24 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls language | 25 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls makers | 23 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls material | 25 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls people | 23 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls preservers | 27 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls prophet | 24 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls scribe | 23 |
| Dead Sea Scrolls writer | 23 |
| Dead thing, according to some | 29 |
| Dead tissue: Comb. form | 23 |
| Dead ___ (hip hip duo) | 22 |
| Dead-doornail connection | 24 |
| Dead-end employment post | 24 |
| Dead-end jobs, perhaps | 22 |
| Dead-end street, perhaps | 24 |
| Dead-ended investigations | 25 |
| Dead-to-the-world type | 22 |
| Dead-tree correspondence | 24 |
| Deadball and steroid, e.g. | 26 |
| Deadbeat's comeuppance | 26 |
| Deadbolts from abroad? | 22 |
| Deadbolts go into them | 22 |
| Deadhead tie-___ T-shirts | 25 |
| Deadheads, for instance | 23 |
| Deadline for Marshal Kane | 25 |
| Deadline for Sheriff Kane | 25 |
| Deadline pursuers: Abbr. | 24 |
| Deadline, metaphorically | 24 |
| Deadly '60s theater | 23 |
| Deadly African tree-dwellers | 28 |
| Deadly fly, when doubled | 24 |
| Deadly hurricane of 1964 | 24 |
| Deadly Jimmy Eat World song? | 28 |
| Deadly long-tailed fish | 23 |
| Deadly or mortal thing | 22 |
| Deadly virus in 2014 news | 25 |
| Deadly wartime hazard: Abbr. | 28 |
| Deadwood, South Dakota? | 23 |
| Deaf school founder Laurent | 27 |
| Deafening silence, e.g. | 23 |
| Deal band shouldn't make | 28 |
| Deal between ball clubs | 23 |
| Deal between sports teams | 25 |
| Deal binder, traditionally | 26 |
| Deal breakers, on occasion | 26 |
| Deal busters, at times | 22 |
| Deal clincher, perhaps | 22 |
| Deal conditions, sometimes | 26 |
| Deal for a new baseball carD | 28 |
| Deal from the bottom, e.g. | 26 |
| Deal in scarce tickets | 22 |
| Deal in secondhand goods | 24 |
| Deal maker's leverage | 25 |
| Deal or material preceder | 25 |
| Deal prerequisite, maybe | 24 |
| Deal prerequisites, sometimes | 29 |
| Deal with as a problem | 23 |
| Deal with a bloated budget | 26 |
| Deal with a computer lockup | 27 |
| Deal with commercially | 22 |
| Deal with conclusively | 22 |
| Deal with knotted laces | 23 |
| Deal with leaks in, perhaps | 27 |
| Deal with lots of debt: Abbr. | 29 |
| Deal with one's booty? | 26 |
| Deal with rigorous terms | 24 |
| Deal with spilled milk | 22 |
| Deal with successfully | 22 |
| Deal with what you got | 22 |
| Deal with, as a challenge | 25 |
| Deal with, as a problem | 23 |