Crossword-Solution: DEFENDER 8 letters, 105 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Defender n. One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects,
or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.

We have 105 clues for the answer “DEFENDER”

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Accused person's lawyer 1 answer
D.A.'s opponent 1 answer
Fighter against invasion. 1 answer
Goalie, e.g. 1 answer
Lawyer in court, often 1 answer
Lawyer, perhaps 1 answer
Legal figure. 1 answer
Ombudsman 1 answer
One of Elizabeth II's titles. 1 answer
One who provides protection 1 answer
Protector, guardian 1 answer
Soccer midfielder, typically 1 answer
Soccer player tasked with slowing the opponent's attack 1 answer
Tackle, sometimes 1 answer
Ulysses' role in Sophocles' "Ajax.” 1 answer
___ of the Faith 1 answer
a person who cares for persons or property 1 answer
legitimist 1 answer
*Lawyer, at times 2 answers
Criminal attorney 2 answers
Loyalist 5 answers
seconder 6 answers
protagonist 7 answers
male lead 7 answers
principal male 7 answers
Patriot 8 answers
SOCCER position 9 answers
CENTRAL male character 10 answers
Main character? 11 answers
main actor 11 answers
A FIGHTER WHO HOLDS OUT AGAINST ATTACK 11 answers
apologist 11 answers
"___ Superstar" 13 answers
Leading lady 16 answers
curator 16 answers
concierge 17 answers
Leading man? 18 answers
Movie star 18 answers
fiduciary 18 answers
Victor 18 answers
Deliverer 19 answers
GOOD genius 19 answers
bodyguard 19 answers
Garrison 20 answers
Good guy. 21 answers
conqueror 21 answers
Carer 24 answers
Vigilante 24 answers
bringer 25 answers
contributor 25 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFENDER (5)

The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families,—sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers,—leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Our friend Benjamin here, though a trifle the worse for wear at the present moment, will prove a gallant defender of your fair person, I have no doubt.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Before you, in your power, Jeddak of Kaol, Defender of the Holies, stands John Carter, Prince of Helium!” Kulan Tith looked toward Matai Shang as though for corroboration of these charges.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The archers, trained by their woodland pastimes to the most effective use of the long-bow, shot, to use the appropriate phrase of the time, so “wholly together,” that no point at which a defender could show the least part of his person, escaped their cloth-yard shafts.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Then the priests lifted up their hands toward heaven, and besought him that was ever a defender of their nation, saying in this manner; 14:35 Thou, O Lord of all things, who hast need of nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thine habitation should be among us: 14:36 Therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.
Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Anonymous 1994

Quotes with DEFENDER (3)

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.
Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire
For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes that in each person is the Creator’s image and that everyone who tramples it offends God. As holy defender of God’s rights and of his images, the church must cry out. It takes as spittle in its face, as lashes on its back, as the cross in its passion, all that human beings suffer, even though they be unbelievers. They suffer as …
Oscar A. Romero The Violence of Love
One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsympathetic, he claimed, but strictly …
Daniel C. Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Used 15 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).